[MtnClimber]

Great title. Deus Vult - God’s Will

[nopardons]

BTTT

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Dukakis long pause and fumbled answer to the question: Would you support the death penalty if your wife was raped? pretty much ended his campaign.

Along with his “bobble head” tank ride.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Dukakis’s granting of prison furlough to the convicted first-degree murderer and life prisoner Willie Horton

Actually, the parole board had denied Horton furlough, but courts agreed with his lawyer that as the recently enacted relevant legislation was worded, he met the conditions for "prerelease" furlough, even though he was serving a life sentence, and the parole had to grant it. Dukakis was not involved in decision, except that he had signed the legislation without understanding the ramifications. It is likely that the legislators who voted for it did not anticipate the how the courts would interpret it, either.

Incidentally, it was Al Gore during the primaries, not G. H. W. Bush, who initially introduced the issue of Willie Horton. The Bush campaign never sponsored the Willie Horton revolving door advertisements, those were by an independent political action committee, and "not paid for or approved by any candidate or political party".