Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis had a commanding lead in the polls over then-Vice President Bush, who at the time had not shaken the so-called wimp-factor.
The Duke sauntered into the Convention Center with Neil Diamond's "America" blaring in the background. The song, like the speech that followed it, was corny and cliched, but for the first time during the campaign Dukakis was able to make an emotional connection with his audience.
While Dukakis was delivering that speech, I liked him as a person for the first time, and I didn't think there was any way the Duke could lose.
And it now appears he'll pay for it the rest of his life. The feeding frenzy--by the press, elected officials in the Bay State and the public at-large--has been incredible. And many of those attacking Dukakis now (the Boston Globe and the state's democratic leadership...
MOST of the anti-Dukakis rhetoric has been cloaked in disgust at the state's ever-worsening fiscal crisis. His critics say the Duke let things slide in the state while he was running for president and claim he juggled the economic numbers to make things here look rosy.