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Commentary: Dukakis recalls negative ads that blocked him from White House
Kansas City Star ^ | October 28, 2012 | by Ben Barber

Posted on 10/28/2012 6:47:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The timing and content of this article are themselves a negative campaign ad.

But M. Stanley here is too dim to realize it.


21 posted on 10/28/2012 7:15:32 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

NOBODY TOLD HIM HE LOOKED LIKE A JERK?

Dukocky cooked his own goose in that tank——btw, that was his idea to get in the tank wearing that ridiculous helmet.

Also, his whining wife got on people’s nerves——voters figured they couldn’t take four years of her whining.


22 posted on 10/28/2012 7:19:49 AM PDT by Liz ("Come quickly, I'm tasting the stars," Dom Perignon)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ducaca... IF you had been a real man instead of the mangina that you are... you might have won... but you are spineless liberal with evil at his core. FUducaca!

LLS


23 posted on 10/28/2012 7:24:55 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (OUR GOVERNMENT AND PRESS ARE NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY OR DESERVING OF RESPECT!)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
About that picture, according to Dukakis himself, he didn't want to wear the helmet, cause he thought it made him look dorky. But the aides and military protocol (no helmet, no riding in the tank) insisted he wear the helmet.

Another newsflash to Dukakis, with or without the helmet, the tank riding picture still made him look dorky.

24 posted on 10/28/2012 7:26:24 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you want to piss off a conservative, tell a lie. If you want to piss off a liberal, tell the truth.


25 posted on 10/28/2012 7:30:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER; Oldeconomybuyer
d@nggit! ...I was lookin' fer that one.. *grinning*
OEB..to tanker Dukakis: "Oh!..you mean that Al Gore
production, Willie Horton Ad?"
..*nevermind*

said, ABCNNBCBS

26 posted on 10/28/2012 7:41:45 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I don't think you're right about that. I believe TV networks alternated between the two colors, and there was often no consistency between the networks for a long time.

That all changed in 2000 when the electoral map wasn't finalized until weeks after Election Day, and viewers simply got used to the whole "red" and "blue" scheme as it stood then.

27 posted on 10/28/2012 8:14:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I saw the news report with Dukakis sticking his head out of the tank with a big smile on his face.

I thought how stupid he looked with a smile like a possum eating s—t.


28 posted on 10/28/2012 8:16:30 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Venturer

Twenty four years later, Dukakis has learned nothing & forgotten nothing. Just like the late unlamented McGovern.

For liberals, it’s always somebody else’s fault.


29 posted on 10/28/2012 8:17:29 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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To: Liz
Also, his whining wife got on people’s nerves——voters figured they couldn’t take four years of her whining.

I also seem to recall that his wife, Kitty Dukakis, had a bit of a drinking problem. That was the basis of a rather distasteful (but funny as hell) joke going around at the time:

Q: What do you call hundreds of empty beer cans and liquor bottles strewn all over highways in Massachusetts?
A: Kitty litter.

30 posted on 10/28/2012 8:17:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sorry, Dukakis, but it wasn’t the “video” in your case either. Wilie Horton was TOTALLY on point but that wasn’t your only problem. Waffling on the rape question did to you what Obama’s first debate performance has hopefully done to him. Not to mention your tank photo (ref. Kerry and the bunny suit).


31 posted on 10/28/2012 8:51:10 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Why not eliminate the middle man and have whoever feeds Obama his lines debate Romney directly?")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Haven't we heard this song before ?????


32 posted on 10/28/2012 9:03:56 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few, and let another take his office.")
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t think you’re right about that. I believe TV networks alternated between the two colors, and there was often no consistency between the networks for a long time.


ISTR the colors were incumbent/challanger red/blue.

I could be, and often am, wrong.


33 posted on 10/28/2012 12:20:01 PM PDT by Peet (Everything has an end -- only the sausage has two.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"If I had beaten the old man, we never would have heard of the kid [George W. Bush], and we wouldn't be in this mess."

Bitter much?

34 posted on 10/28/2012 12:26:41 PM PDT by x
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To: Alberta's Child; Lurkina.n.Learnin
I don't think you're right about that. I believe TV networks alternated between the two colors, and there was often no consistency between the networks for a long time.

Prior to 2000, it was blue for the incumbent party, red for the challenging party.

It was really "alternating", but it did vary with the party in control of the presidency.

35 posted on 10/28/2012 12:45:42 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: okie01

That sounds about right. I do know it was a conscious effort to change the norm on the MSMs part.


36 posted on 10/28/2012 1:26:37 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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To: Alberta's Child

Heh-—good one.


37 posted on 10/28/2012 1:50:57 PM PDT by Liz ("Come quickly, I'm tasting the stars," Dom Perignon)
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To: Alberta's Child

SNL did a hilarious Dukakis debate satire which is sometimes rerun even today. Dukakis is seen behind the rostrum ready to debate-—as he slowly rises as if on an elevator to reach the mic-—(he’s real short). LOL.


38 posted on 10/28/2012 1:57:12 PM PDT by Liz ("Come quickly, I'm tasting the stars," Dom Perignon)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Letting murderers out on a pass when they’re not even eligible for parole is a bad idea, no matter what color they are. That’s what killed your campaign, Mike, not racism.


39 posted on 10/28/2012 2:59:06 PM PDT by RichInOC (Romney/Ryan 2012: Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn. For Everybody Else, There's Us.)
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