Recommended: The Perot Option

I highly recommend David Brook's New York Times Op Ed piece from yesterday, January 29, entitled The Perot Option. In several recent posts I have recommended articles about the Tea Party movement, and suggested that while it is amateurish and relatively unorganized now, as soon as a charismatic leader emerges, it may well become a major force in the nation's politics. Brooks argues that we are ripe for a third party "Ross Perot" movement to ride the wave of public discontent and dismay at Washington politics, and that President Obama can either make himself into that figure, or be run over by whoever takes up that mantel - he would rather that it was Obama who took on the role.

Well worth reading and pondering.