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Flashback: Dukakis Led Bush By 17 Points After 1988 DNC
Newsbuster ^ | September 09, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 09/09/2012 9:13:44 PM PDT by barmag25

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To: Jack Hydrazine

Those were great! Bumper stickers showed a man laughing his butt off with the caption: DUKAKIS for WHAT?!?!? (as in,
“You want it WHEN?”). Also “Dump The Duke”. A caller to the Jerry Williams show on WRKO Boston sang “Unelectable...” to the tune of “Unforgettable...”*

A joke from, of all people, Barney Frank:

“They want to depress the Central Artery? They should just have Mike Dukakis talk to it.” (Frank also quipped: “Depressing the Central Artery? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to raise the city?”)


*—also Howie Carr gave him the nickname Pee Wee as in Pee Wee Herman...piece that used to run on Jerry Wiliams show:

PEE WEE HERMAN: What’s the secret word for today?
DUKAKIS: Taxes...
(Sound effect: Woman screaming)
PEE WEE HERMAN: So when you hear the secret word...SCREAM REAL LOUD!


21 posted on 09/09/2012 11:24:17 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I thought Dukakis was Greek for Romney?


22 posted on 09/09/2012 11:24:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: GregH
If Romney is having the same McLoser advisors around him, he needs to wisen up and fire those idiots, a private sector guy like Romney should recognise such Mclame losers straight away.

As a private sectory guy, Romney doesn't know anything about politics. Politics is so complex with so many experts and masterminds running the show now, there's no way anyone can just step in and master it overnight. That's why we're better off with career politicians who live, eat and breathe this stuff as candidates, as long as they agree with our values. A private sector guy who's a newbie to politics is going to lose every time against a career politician who's paid attention to how to run campaigns all their life.

23 posted on 09/09/2012 11:34:36 PM PDT by JediJones (Grow your own dope...plant a Democrat.)
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To: JediJones

Yes that could be correct.

This could be a weak point, Romney does not really give the impression that he understands how the brutal world of politics operate and how the MSM will be making it harder for him.

One would think that he has the right advisors to guide him through, or he should able to see where McCain campaign failed.


24 posted on 09/10/2012 2:05:02 AM PDT by GregH
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To: JediJones; GregH

Romney is not a newbie in politics. He’s been a governor of MA and then running for a president ever since. Not to mention his attempt at senate race in 1994. This guy has been in politics for almost two decade. Whatever Romney may be, a political novice he is not.


25 posted on 09/10/2012 2:19:04 AM PDT by paudio (Post-racial society: When we can legitimately hire and fire a Black man without feeling guilty.)
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To: barmag25

Look at gallup’s history going back to 1948. Elections with no incumbent are very volatile. Only 1952 saw the eventual winner maintain a solid and consistent lead. In 1960, JFK and Nixon traded the lead weekly. In 1968, Nixon lead the entire election by as much as 15 points only to nearly lose it. In 2000, both Gore and Bush had 10 point leads at one point. I recall at one point Gore and Bush were even tied 44-44 in Illinois.

Using elections with no incumbent to try and predict this ekection won’t work.


26 posted on 09/10/2012 3:02:15 AM PDT by Bobloblaw2012
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To: JediJones

LOL. I read some dumb things here on FR, but that there isn’t politics in business or that business isn’t cutthroat?

Are you George Stephanopolous?


27 posted on 09/10/2012 3:57:19 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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28 posted on 09/10/2012 10:10:50 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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