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...Willie Horton. Black. Murderer. Rapist. Most valuable player in George Bush's no-holds-barred bid for the White House...
...tactics used by Bush's strategists to brand Michael Dukakis a gooey liberal out of touch with mainstream values, none worked better than the relentless pounding of Horton's horrible tale. By the end of the campaign, scarcely a voter had not been exposed to the lurid details of the rapacious spree Horton committed while on weekend furlough from the Massachusetts prison to which he had been sentenced to life without parole for a brutal 1974 homicide...
...beyond the boundaries of common sense. Unlike other states and the Federal Government, which usually employ furloughs to gradually acclimate prisoners near the end of their sentences to living outside the walls, Massachusetts granted weekend leaves to convicts whom judges had condemned to remain behind bars until they died. Horton is precisely the sort of criminal that people have in mind when they say someone should lock him up and throw away...
...Back to Willie Horton. You call it cynical; other people would call it racist. Yet you did not come out strongly to condemn these ads as racist...
...Wait a second. You can make your own judgment about the Willie Horton ad. But when the southern regional coordinator of the Bush campaign says we're going to push Mike Dukakis so far to the left, he's going to be to the left of collard greens, black-eyed peas and strip-row cotton, that's not very subtle...