Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Dukakis should have done when the Pledge came up was appear with John Glenn and other patriotic icons of the Democratic Party to say the flag was being cheapened by the attack on Supreme Court rulings. On the Horton issue, Dukakis should have had a panel of penologists appearing...
With Jackson, instead of trying to hide him for a while (as if that would affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan...
"There' s lots of work to do," he says -- but a Democratic Congress won' t make it easy. -- How the new President took the White House: by sweeping the South and taking key industrial states in the Midwest. -- If Michael Dukakis is such a competent manager, why was his presidential...
Intellectual brilliance, of course, is hardly a requirement in politics: Nixon and Carter were among the most intelligent of modern Presidents, and Reagan the least. Dukakis demonstrated that a brainy campaign run by the best and brightest minds is capable of badly misreading the issues that matter to Americans.
Nevertheless, a Bush peace initiative would have a chance. His stump speech avoided personal attacks on Hill leaders. When Dukakis started scoring heavily on Ed Meese and sleaze, Bush countered with a call for an investigation of House Majority Leader Jim Wright, but quickly dropped the matter after Meese resigned...