He's Ready, But Is America ready for PRESIDENT PEROT?

Look out Washington -- look out George Bush and Bill Clinton -- here comes the first revolution in history ever led by a billionaire

ALL THAT WAS MISSING WAS NORman Rockwell to immortalize the scene for an old Saturday Evening Post cover. The sea of white faces in the crowd at the Texas state Capitol in Austin last week was freckles-fritters-and-fried-chicken America: elderly retirees, earnest young men and women in ROSS FOR BOSS T shirts, and a sprinkling of former Vietnam POWS in black shirts as a reminder of their suffering. As the patriotic pageantry built to a climax, a compact man with jug ears, weather-beaten face and glasses, the sort of fellow who looks like he might belong behind the counter in a small-town...

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