Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I'm kind of depressed today. I think Dukakis is going to lose, and that the country will suffer if Bush wins. Dukakis cares about the homeless, etc. I don't think Bush does," Walser said.
"They're not concerned simply because they realized it was a lost cause--[Dukakis] started too late to exhilarate," said W. William Walker, a Kennedy supporter and a volunteer in the Dukakis campaign.
TODAY, the political "spin doctors" begin their most delicate operation of the year--trying to determine the "big picture" of the 1988 presidential election. They will likely lay the foundation for a new "Conventional Wisdom" which will say that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis lost because he was a liberal.
In truth, Dukakis lost not because he was "out of the mainstream" as Vice President George Bush contends, but because he failed to explain why liberalism is part of the mainstream. To make matters worse, he refused until almost the very end to energize those voters sympathetic to his cause...
Throughout most of the general election campaign, Dukakis didn't even offer the voters a choice. Only when he faced incredibly long odds, did Dukakis find his voice--a liberal voice--and begin to ignite the passions of the electorate. It was his last-ditch populist crusade of "I'm...