Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That question will not be on any ballot, but it is perhaps the most unambiguous decision facing voters. Dukakis is the apostle of the do-something ethic, while Bush represents mainstream Republican skepticism of new Government programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle...
Domestic affairs is the one arena in which Dukakis holds the promise of being far more interesting as President than he ever was as candidate. By nature a peripatetic tinkerer, Dukakis has undoubtedly fantasized about how he would tackle problems like the homeless without creating expensive federal bureaucracies. But he...
Early 1989, the experts reasoned, would be the proper moment for a pragmatic new President to cut a deal with Congress, regardless of what was read on Bush's lips or how Dukakis blathered on about uncollected taxes.
That logic still holds if Dukakis is elected. His last-resort taxes might consist of new levies on securities transfers or higher rates for upper-income taxpayers. But in well-placed Republican circles, there are whispers that Bush has in Reaganesque fashion been convinced by his own rhetoric about "no...
The Vice President, to be sure, has far greater firsthand knowledge of East-West relations and the concerns of European allies. But Dukakis would bring to the presidency an equally strong instinctive understanding of the economic threats to the nation's security from both Japan and an increasingly integrated European...