What’s an Al Gore the one who brought up Willie Horton?
From the article:
Gore’s Gambit. Struggling to stay afloat against the Democrat front-runner in the April 14, 1988 primary debate, Sen. Al Gore (D, TN) tried to hit Michael Dukakis on the Massachusetts governor’s prison furlough program, with a vague, generalized reference to “weekend passes for convicted criminals.” Cold-fish Dukakis responded with statistics and policy-wonkism — sneering that he, unlike Gore, had actually run a criminal justice system. Al went limp, his “you’re-soft-on-crime” attack didn’t impress Democrat primary voters, and Gore dropped out of the race two weeks later, on April 21, 1988.
That Democrat Al Gore first put the issue on the table is occasionally admitted by the media — who always rush to add that Al Gore mentioned no names. True. Which is why this would have likely been the end of the story, except for events happening beyond Democrat Party control.