‘Evils of Two Lessers:’ Bush and Dukakis Campaigns
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Now add to the long list of those who apparently enjoy bashing George Bush for going negative in the campaign the name of William Schneider as per his column.
Schneider, and others of his ilk, chooses to overlook the fact that early in the Dukakis campaign the candidate remarked that the present Administration is like a dead fish that always begins to rot at the head. What kind of sweet-talk does Schneider think that is? And later in his diatribe he refers to Bush’s “savage attacks on Dukakis.” Michael Dukakis is not making savage attacks on Bush?
GARLAND C. LADD
Los Angeles
![1988: The image of George H.W. Bush towering over his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, might be the second-most notable contrast in debate history (after the first Nixon-Kennedy debate). What you might remember: At the start of the second meeting held at UCLAs Pauley Pavilion -- CNN newsman Bernard Shaw asked Dukakis, an opponent of the death penalty, one of the more shocking questions in debate history: Governor, if [your wife] Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? Dukakis bland response sealed his fate in the general election. What you might have forgotten: Just about everything else in the two debates.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/76e543a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/586x392+0+17/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F79%2F73%2F27f118f5a47485c01012372b100f%2Fla-pres-debate1988-i5paygkf)
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