Word: squier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidates stood in the wings of the stage, Ailes and Bush looked across at Dukakis and his debate coaches Bob Squier and Tom Donilon, their faces half shrouded by darkness. Ailes waved flamboyantly to his opposite numbers, and Squier raised his hand. Dukakis frowned and folded his arms tightly across his chest. Seeing Dukakis' tenseness, Bush smiled...
...Squier said that while the character of both candidates was fairly unknown, Bush defined himself as gentle and kind. But in a reference to cartoonist Garry Trudeau's attacks, Squier said Bush showed "his evil twin Skippy" when he got the chance to portray Dukakis as weak and unpatriotic...
...Massachusetts governor should have won groups over to his side on issues while he stood 17 points above the Republican candidate in the polls, and large blocs of people still disliked Bush as a candidate, said Squier. Instead, Dukakis waited until it was too late, he said...
...Squier also said that the Democrats did not use the vice-presidential nominees early enough either. He said Dukakis should have used Bush's choice of Sen. J. Danforth Quayle (R-Ind.) as an example of bad judgement. The attack had to be on Bush's judgement instead of Quayle's character, and it had to hit last August when the choice was made, said Squier...
...tend to believe in this `guerilla raid out of the hills' kind of idea," said Squier, comparing Democratic campaign workers to the Republicans' "trained cadres...