The American Spectator

S.L. Toddard| 9.25.09 @ 9:16AM

Nobody was loathed more by the Right (what there was of it, anyway) in Mass than Dukakis. What a comical character he was, with his bouncing eyebrown, gigantic nose and distraught wife. Taxachusetts, the "Massachusetts Miracle", and his doodling around in that tank, foreshadowing Bush's prancing around in his flight suit that day long ago that he declared the Iraq War won.

The quality of politicians we elect says something very, very sad about America. Americans will not elect a truth-speaker, because Americans will only elect someone who tells them they can have a huge federal government with very low taxes, which is a lie, plain and simple. And so we get what we deserve.

Interested Conservative| 9.25.09 @ 10:05AM

"Loathed"? Even in Mass.? I can think of a few others who drew more scorn, before, during and after.

I wonder if most of us will forever associate the Gov. with Belgian Endive production and Boston Harbor.

As for his wife, she always struck me as a variation on Betty Ford - sympathetic and hardly unlikeable.

Daisy| 9.25.09 @ 10:34AM

Visions of Dukakis, the bobble headed doll, perched atop that tank still make me laugh out loud.

Only toothy Carter is a bigger moron.

rrpjr| 9.25.09 @ 10:49AM

Dukakis taught at my college. He was indeed a decent guy, a good egghead. But he had nothing to do with the "Massachusett's Miracle," which was the result of Reagan's infusion of defense industry money along the 128 beltway and Mayor Kevin White's brilliant if ruthless redevelopment schemes in Boston. Dukakis was the clueless beneficiary. That he conned the democrat party into thinking otherwise, or that they allowed themselves to be conned, is just another example of liberal unfitness for power.

There was a joke about Dukakis. One of his aides came to him with an idea. After examining the extensive analysis of the idea, Dukakis responded, "well, I see that your idea has practical application. But far more importantly, does it work in theory?"

Spicy Joker| 9.25.09 @ 12:19PM

Don't park your Benson under a Bush, because a Quayle might come and Dukakis on it.

Daisy| 9.25.09 @ 12:27PM

LOL! If I didn't laugh, I would cry. What a farce!

crusain| 9.25.09 @ 1:25PM

Mike Dukakis, or Mike DuTaxes, as Democrat Governor Ed King dubbed him, is the epitome of the Massachusetts moonbat. Early on as a Brookline legislator, he proposed legislation to de-criminalize bestiality (hide your pets). An admitted card carrying member of the ACLU, he succeeded in having Alger Hiss re-admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Beloved technocrat of the wacko Left, he supposedly brought along a tract on Swedish land use planning for beach reading.
Alas, he will remain in Brookline, thank goodness.

Brandon Lachner| 9.25.09 @ 1:28PM

Dear W. James,

As far as EJ Dioone is concerned any left wing nut, past or present floats his boat. Dukakis was Cuomo with a "D." Honest? Well, you tell me. Massachusetts, like a number of states prohibits the disbursement of state benefits to those who don't have a valid social security number. No problem for the "honest and decent" Dukakis, he had fake ones assigned to the illegals by the tens of thousands and when he was caught, for which he should have gone to jail just like Teddy had mandatory jail time coming to him, "The Duke" said, "Well, what do you want to do just let them die in the street?" Dukakis famously spent none of his own money, the ancient snow blower, and not letting his wife do the grocery shopping come to mind, but with the public money, the "honest and decent" Dukakis couldn't shovel it out fast enough, legally or illegally. During his run for the Presidency Dukakis signed a massive 50% plus pay raise for the Massachusetts legislature including himself and other top elected Mass. officials, put through as an "emergency retroactive pay raise," everyone got a lump sum 2 year increased pay check. Massachusetts voters were so incensed they put the pay raise on the ballot and repealed it but they were threatened by the Speaker of the House of Reps . that if they did so they would regret it for both disclosed and undisclosed reasons. Dukakis and the rest of them just kept their money because the referendum on the emergency retrocative pay raise, by state law, could not itself apply retroactively. Dukakis was sending Massachusetts state troopers to New Hampshire to find Massachusetts residents buying 4th of July fireworks there and then following them back to Massachusetts to arrest them since firewroks are illegal in the "cradle of liberty." John Sununu was Governor of New Hampshire at the time and he told Dukakis that New Hampshire troopers would arrest the Mass troopers for citizen harassment outside their jurisdiction. That stopped it. "The Grest Stickler For The Law" Michael Dukakis, but not where he was concerned. Another in the long line of hypocritical crooks now passed on to "honest and decent" by way of EJ Dionne. Carter has been taking money from dirty Arabs for decades now and today I learned that the State Department is sending $400,000 to Muamar Kaddafi's family charity. So, that makes Carter, Clintons state department, and Obamas administration all crooks just like Dukakis and that only took one true sentence. A whole lot of lyin' goin' on there in the gummint, boys and girls.

Richard Baker| 9.27.09 @ 10:03AM

Isn't there an M-1 tank out there with his name on it? Tough guy, to be sure.