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Private Notes
You know, some people might tell you that in order to run for president, you have to be taller than five-foot-five. And that you need things called “political positions.” And that you’re not allowed to go on a two-month vacation during peak campaign season. And that you should actually prepare for debates. And that you should actually want to be President. Well, Ross Perot proved them all … right. But not before proving them kind of wrong first!
In the wake of Ross Perot’s unremarkable showing in 1996, the Reform Party needs a new hero. Badly. They finally find him in the form of Jesse Ventura, one of the most unforgettable figures ever seen in modern American politics. Ventura seems perfectly poised to lead Reform into the future. Everything is going great. I sure hope Ross Perot doesn't start doing Ross Perot stuff again.
By the year 2000, what is the Reform platform? Everything. It’s centrism, libertarianism, blood-and-soil authoritarianism, Black nationalism, and communism. It’s pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-gay rights. Name a thing and it is both for and against that thing. Nothing means anything anymore. Bear witness as the weirdest collection of wingnuts, cranks, careerists and scumbags ever assembled in American politics presides over the righteous and necessary implosion of what inevitably became the pointless anti-movement we call the Reform Party.
