Michael Dukakis: GOP Will Blow Up Building 3 Weeks Before Election

[CGowen]

Beloved 1988 Dem nominee Michael Dukakis was such a crappy candidate that he lost to despised vice president George Bush, so now he’s warning America that the Republicans will still figure out a way to keep the White House beyond 2008, even though everybody hates the Republicans and all the GOP candidates and especially Bush Junior and Dick Cheney.

“We’re not going to outspend the other guys,” he said during an interview in his modest office in the political science department at Northeastern University, where he was the first to arrive (at 7:30 a.m.) on a recent midsummer morning. “We’re probably not going to outstrategize them. And some crazy guy will blow up a building with three weeks to go, you know, and then we’ll be back in Bush-land again.”

While we object to dismissing Karl Rove as “some crazy guy,” Dukakis does have a point. As George Will says, we are now basically Weimar Germany right before “some crazy guy” burns the Reichstag and lets Hitler take over Europe and put everybody in Concentration Camps.

So what can the Dem nominees do to stop Cheney from crowning Bush Junior emperor of the world?

We’re pretty sure the answer is “Just sit back and wait for Russia to launch a full nuclear strike against the United States” because experts say that’s what really needs to happen anyway.

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept%27-of-sore-losers/michael-dukakis-gop-will-blow-up-building-3-weeks-before-election-292765.php

[CGowen]

1. Dukakis, Once Burned, Refuses to Be Optimistic About 2008

http://www.observer.com/node/57075

Michael Dukakis has seen this script before: a Republican administration besieged by scandal and running out the clock on its second term, while wide-eyed Democrats confidently lick their chops, knowing there’s no way in hell voters will reward the G.O.P. with four more years in the White House.

It was around this very moment 20 years ago, the summer when Oliver North told Congress he was “authorized to do everything that I did” and Reagan fatigue took hold, that Mr. Dukakis, then the 53-year-old governor of Massachusetts, emerged at the head of a crowded Democratic presidential pack. By the time he was formally nominated in Atlanta the following July, he’d opened a 17-point lead over Vice President George H.W. Bush.

“I can handle this guy,” Mr. Dukakis supposedly replied around that time when John Sasso, his consultant in exile, asked to return to the campaign. “You worry about the first 100 days.”

So you can understand why the numerous harbingers of a triumphant 2008 for Democrats—George W. Bush’s Nixonian approval ratings, polls that show voters favoring a Democratic White House candidate by double-digit margins, the electorate’s historical aversion to three-term rule by one party—haven’t prompted Mr. Dukakis to begin planning his trip to the 2009 inaugural celebration.

“We’re not going to outspend the other guys,” he said during an interview in his modest office in the political science department at Northeastern University, where he was the first to arrive (at 7:30 a.m.) on a recent midsummer morning. “We’re probably not going to outstrategize them. And some crazy guy will blow up a building with three weeks to go, you know, and then we’ll be back in Bush-land again.”

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[sallyseven]

10. The Duke is not nuts.

He would not make a statement like that. It is sad that he didn't become president because he would have been a good one. He is still involved in the Demo Party in MA and a goto guy for many of our Delegation. I became active because of Dukakis and have never regretted it.

[gatorboy]

2. Must be "Thread with misleading quote" week

Where'd Dukakis say GOP, hoss?

[CGowen]

3. it's the wonkette headline n/t

[gatorboy]

6. Yeah, but that's expected of Wonkette.

They're automatically snarky.


And it doesn't make it any less misleading.

[CGowen]

7. Maybe next time I will include the word "wonkette" into the headline.

I posted it in General Discussion and not in Politics, because I thought it would fit here.

[Bluebear]

9. It's a good article, don't worry.

The point is, 3 weeks before the election, some mysterious "terror" event is likely to come about again and then we're screwn.

[kansasblue]

5. I agree.... 'some crazy guy' doesn't = GOP

The spin seems to be to make Dukakis look like the crazy uncle.

[endarkenment]

13. Not all crazy guys are GOP.

But these days all GOP guys are crazy.

[CJCRANE]

4. That's their main propaganda tool - s*** blowing up

whether's it's on 9/11 or the Golden Mosque or a village in Pakistan, Somalia or Iraq.

When shit blows up the Bush-Republicans are happy.

[road2000]

8. Still...

I think "with three weeks to go. . . " can imply some dastardly collusion.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Only problem is NIE Documents. Terra at home is now Bush's fault.

Is why Rove had to put his 2006 October Surprise on ice.

I would be more concerned about election fraud and dirty tricks.

[AlCzervik]

12. could that headline be a bit more misleading? Thanks Wonkette, you've given

every asshat in cablenews land their liberal bashing lead story for the night.