Not until 16 years had passed after Michael Dukakis left the statehouse in Massachusetts and memories had grown dim did the voters of that most reliable of Democratic states see fit to elect another Democrat Governor. In his 1988 bid for the White House, he won all of ten states.
And now he’s sharing his electoral strategies with the White House:
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, the failed 1988 presidential nominee, recently visited the White House and delivered his strategy for the midterm elections: pound key precincts across the country with the message that Republicans want to implement the same policies that led to the Great Recession.
Yeah, that’ll work.
All this leads Doug Powers to quip, “Nobody had the heart to tell Dukakis that the Dems have decided to implement the Mondale Plan instead.” Heh.
Too late. Democrats beat them!
Republicans under Bush: Massive domestic spending increases, $400 billion annual deficits. Democrats: Unimaginable further spending increases, $1.5 trillion annual deficits.
Republicans under Bush: Massive new entitlements like Prescription Drugs. Democrats: Obamacare.
Republicans under Bush: 1% interest rates. (Greenspan did it… with Bush’s support.) Democrats: 0% interest rates. (Bernanke did it… with Obama’s support.)
Republicans under Bush: Two wars, fought at least with some determination to achieve victory and protect America. Democrats: Two wars… fought why again? Because America, after all, is the Great Satan.
Republicans under Bush: A continual ramp-up in regulations (contrary to left-wing myth). Job-killing minimum wage increases. Democrats: Cap-n-tax (proposed). Insane new mandates on businesses and individuals alike.
Republicans under Bush: Bail out the airlines after 9-11, for 50 billion dollars. Democrats: bail out Wall Street for hundreds of billions.
Republicans under Bush: Stimulus. Democrats: More stimulus. And more stimulus. And more stimulus.
There is a reason we’re not recovering. And the Democrats have it.
I Love Capitalism — you are so right. Herbert Hoover is Obama. People have to accept that. We need our Silent Cal to save us.
“Prosperity is just around the corner!” == “Recovery Summer!”
Advice from Dukasis – that is a joke, right!!!!
If anyone should take advice from someone from Massachusetts on how to win a campaign it is Scott Brown! In 1775 a shot was heard around the world from Massachusetts beginning America’s revolution. The second shot heard around the world from Massachusetts was Republican Scott Brown’s victory! And yet, Democrats are still deaf to the majority of America’s voices.
Basically, The Duke travelled to D.C. to tell Obama to blame Boooosh. I wonder why Obama didn’t think to do that?
There’s your party of big ideas. Blame Booosh and refuse to campaign on all the job killing, unpopular, liberty depriving, legislatiion they’ve passed since Jan. 20, 2009.
Who knew Michael Dukakis & David Plouffe are cut from the same wet sponge? This is Plouffe’s strategy which has backfired given Obama is going back to college campuses to get the youth vote.