Word: dukakises
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January 25: After criticizing Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's reliance on the "liberal Harvard boutique" throughout the campaign, Bush nominates Harvard affiliates for more than half of the cabinet slots. Even worse, they accept positions.
What hurts most about this year's election is that the party studiously avoided making either choice. Deep down most Democrats probably do not feel Michael S. Dukakis deserved to be President. He did not make a case for liberalism. He did not attempt to go down in a blaze...
As a Cleveland native and a life-long Browns fan, I have the right to say this. The Browns have disappointed me far more than Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.
Perhaps the greatest failing of the current system is that it magnifies the power of ideological true believers in both parties. It can be argued that Bush as the heir to Reagan may have in any case embraced the President's read- my-lips gospel on taxes, but the unyielding...
THE PROCESS. Perhaps the fall campaign alone is indictment enough of the way the nation chooses its presidential nominees. It is somewhat embarrassing to recall that the whole baleful journey began with the unwarranted media frenzy that surrounded the Iowa caucuses early last February. But it is hard to blame...