Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A visitor from another planet would surely have thought the presidential race was about prison furloughs, the death penalty for drug kingpins, mandatory Pledge of Allegiance and Dan Quayle's IQ. But on Election Day, these hot- button issues turned out to be largely irrelevant. Only 12% of the voters...
Roger Ailes, Bush's media adviser, is credited with (or blamed for) inventing the Pledge of Allegiance issue, the Willie Horton scare, the A.C.L.U. attacks. All were leftovers from the Robertson campaign. Bush had been criticized as a "lapdog" early in 1987 when he courted the religious right, calling himself...
Dukakis made these absurd accusations credible by his refusal to take them seriously. On the Pledge, he did not angrily grab the flag back and say it belongs to all Americans and he would defend it always, but constitutionally; he just cited Massachusetts' highest court, as if putting a footnote...
The clincher, so far as convincing Bush went, was the fact that Dukakis was being deceptive about his past, trying to deny his liberalism, to mask the menace to the nation presented by his softness on crime and defense. If Ailes could make that case to Bush, then the Pledge...
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...