Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the club has also turned its political guns against the issues, Kim said. The Republican Club demonstrated against Gov. Michael S. Dukakis when he came to speak at Tufts last week, she said. "We shook him up and got some good press," she added.
In his efforts to portray Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as soft on crime, Bush has relentlessly reiterated the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison.
The Bush campaign has paid the victim's expenses as she shuttles around the country telling her story and bashing Dukakis. A Bush television commercial shows convicts walking out of prison through a turnstile, presumably to rape and pillage with the Governor's blessing.
Dukakis's inability to respond to these attacks may well cost him the election. Polls show that voters overwhelmingly believe Bush will be tougher on crime, despite Dukakis' impressive record of reducing crime in the bay state. And the states that Dukakis must win--New York, California and Texas--are...
In defense of Dukakis, sympathetic pundits point out that the Massachusetts furlough program was instituted under Dukakis' predecessor, Republican Ed King, and that California had an almost identical program under then-Governor Ronald Reagan. They remind voters that as Vice President, Bush never objected to the furlough program for federal...