Could Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg be working in concert to bleed Republican votes away like Ross Perot did to George Bush Sr.? Few people know that Ross Perot and Bill Clinton were friends and had several closed door meetings at the Gov. Mansion in Arkansas and in Dallas, the home of Ross Perot, prior to the 1992 election.

Could the Mayor of New York (A Liberal who ran as a Republican) be secretly helping out Hillary Clinton by joining the race as an Independent. Sure this would bleed off votes from both the Democrats and the Republicans, but I just can’t help but to recall Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson’s account of the meetings and phone calls that took place between his boss Gov. Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.
Beating an incumbent candidate would be difficult - if Clinton could bleed enough votes away from Bush he could win it - although with only 43% of the vote was the result.

Remember that Ross Perot decided to run as a 3rd Party Candidate between Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. in 1992, then for the 1996 election he stepped in to run against Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
Read about this odd relationship below.

In an unpredictable 2008 presidential race, the prospect of a viable third-party candidacy - particularly a self-financed bid by billionaire Michael Bloomberg - could be the biggest wild card of all.

Reports that Bloomberg, New York’s Republican mayor, is willing to spend a big chunk of his personal fortune - perhaps as much as $1 billion - on a White House run set off a new round of speculation about his intentions and his possible impact on the November 2008 election.

The speculation was egged on by Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a conservative Republican and Iraq war opponent who also is considering an independent bid and had dinner with Bloomberg recently.

Hagel openly hinted about joining the mayor on a high-octane, third-party ticket that could reshape the political landscape and jolt the traditional U.S. two-party system.

During two contested presidential elections, Ross Perot presented himself as an independent maverick who disdained the idea of Bill Clinton, the one-time Arkansas governor, holding the Oval Office.

"Electing Bill Clinton president is like making the manager of a Wal-Mart store President of the United States,” Perot exclaimed during the 1992 presidential debate.

In the 1996 race Perot’s comments about Clinton were more honed and nasty. Perot suggested that Bill Clinton was too corrupt to serve as president, and said he couldn’t even be trusted to babysit one’s children.

Perot’s on-again and off-again comments about Bill Clinton don’t seem to square for retired Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson.

Patterson offers new insight into Bill Clinton’s relationship with the billionaire Dallas businessman in More than Sex: the Secrets of Bill & Hillary Clinton Revealed! - A two-hour audiocassette tape set published by NewsMax.com.

In More than Sex, Patterson explodes the myth that Perot and Clinton were political foes. Patterson says, in fact, Clinton and Perot had been long-time friends well before the 1992 campaign. Patterson said the two had numerous meetings and calls over a period of several years. This relationship continued well into the 1992 presidential campaign, the trooper said.

Patterson reports that on numerous occasions the two met in Dallas when Bill Clinton traveled through the city while transiting to or from Little Rock. The pair usually had lunch or dinner together. Clinton would also meet with Perot’s son, Ross Jr.

During this period before the 1992 campaign, Patterson explained that he really didn’t know who Perot was other than Clinton’s description of him as a wealthy individual who was politically connected.

Perot became a national celebrity after appearing on the Larry King Show in early 1992, declaring his intention to run as a third party candidate.

Patterson said when he learned of Perot’s decision to enter the 1992 race, he was surprised.

"It seems strange to me that Mr. Perot and Bill Clinton has this close relationship and that they’re running for the same office. Yes, that strikes me quite strange,” Patterson said.

Perot abruptly withdrew from the race by the summer of 1992 during the Democratic convention, saying publicly that the Democratic party had been revitalized.

Patterson reveals that after winning the Democratic convention in New York that summer, contacts between Clinton and Perot increased dramatically.

"Up until [Bill Clinton] was elected, we still made all his telephone calls, received all incoming calls to the mansion,” Patterson said.

Patterson estimates their were as many as a dozen calls between the two during the period after Perot had withdrawn from the race.

By October, Perot had changed his mind and again decided to enter the presidential race.

Republicans have criticized Perot, believing that his conservative platform appealed to potential Republican and swing voters and effectively gave the election to Bill Clinton. Critics of Perot have also noted that his criticisms of Clinton usually surface only around election time, and have effectively divided the anti-Clinton vote.

Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992 and 1996. In neither case did he win a majority of votes cast, receiving only 43 percent of the vote in ’92 and 49 percent in ’96.

Patterson has no idea what transpired between Clinton and Perot during their meetings and calls. Still, he thinks the relationship between the two deserves more scrutiny.

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