Posted on 11/02/2006 11:55:52 PM PST by raccoonradio
Mike Dukakis was a good governor. And if you don’t believe me, just ask Deval Patrick. Here’s the exchange from the final televised debate Wednesday night.
Kerry Healey: “I’d like to ask you, do you think Dukakis was a good governor, and why?”
Deval: “I think that Mike Dukakis was a good governor in many ways, and we had challenges then.”
We sure did, Deval, and the biggest challenge of all, at least to us taxpayers, was named M. Stanley Dukakis.
Sure, Deval’s lead in the polls is most likely insurmountable, and tossing a bouquet to the henpecked wimp Mike Dukakis isn’t nearly as boneheaded as Liveshot Kerry’s “stuck in Iraq” crack.
Still, you can’t say now you haven’t been warned.
But this governor’s race isn’t about facts, it’s about feelings. Christy Mihos is in the fight only because his fragile ego was bruised by Mitt Romney, and now the self-pity virus has spread to Grace Ross, who says she’s being ignored, boo-hoo. And all the rich ponytailed guys and knitting post-menopausal trust-funded women are voting for Deval only because it’ll make them feel less guilty about their Lexuses and ski condos.
Hey, it’s a moonbat world.
So it seems only appropriate that the next governor turns out to be a big fan of the “Massachusetts miracle.” Deval even uses some of the Duke’s most hackneyed phrases, such as “growing the economy” and “investment in the future,” which means higher taxes. The Duke was endorsed by rapist-murderer Willie Horton. Deval can tout his nod from Ben LaGuer.
For those with short memories, let’s consider some of the accomplishments of Mike Dukakis:
# Phony Social Security numbers issued by the state to illegal aliens so that they could go onto welfare immediately upon arrival in Massachusetts.
# Forty-four murderers had their sentences commuted by the Duke in his first four years.
# Weekend furloughs for first-degree murderers so they can rape and be inducted into the mafia.
# Hiring of gangsters and their relatives at the Mass. Convention Center Authority after Dukakis turned over control of the board to Whitey Bulger’s brother Billy (now a confidant of Deval Patrick).
# Increased Turnpike tolls at Allston and Weston from 25 cents to 50 cents, and then held a press conference announcing “a 20 percent increase.”
# Left-wing judges such as Robert Bonin, Margaret Burnham, Maria Lopez and Suzanne “Let ’em Go” DelVecchio, not to mention Bulger cronies too numerous to mention.
# A proposal for a sales tax on four services, which went down in flames after a state rep who is now the state inspector general began publicly reading a list of all of the hundreds of affected industries.
# Medicaid-funded sex-change operations for New Hampshire residents, followed by taxpayer-funded post-op therapy in Montreal.
# “Good jobs at good wages . . . public-private partnerships . . . national model . . . stop the finger-pointing.”
# DOR tax audits on political opponents.
# Lt. Gov. John Kerry; House committee chairman John McNeil, a convicted child pornographer; crooked Dukakis education adviser Gerry Indelicato; Big Dig creator Freddy Salvucci and Massport hack Dave Davis
# A temporary surcharge on the state income tax, now 17 years old and still in effect.
# Annual banquets at the prisons for members of the Lifers Club, i.e., murderers.
# Blaming all of the state’s problems on talk radio (sounds like a Globe editorial endorsing Deval). I’m out of space, but there was more, so much more in those 12 rotten years. Mike Dukakis was special, as Deval put it so well, in many ways.
Compared to whom...Gray Davis?
I hope Howie's going to have a part 2 -- there's lots more. Wasn't Dukakis responsible for the MWRA? I remember Howie's column at the time -- he predicted that, among other things -- they'd have to hire a couple of $300 a week typists, not because they needed the typing, but so that when the inevitable complaints about exorbitant cost started, they'd have someone to lay off!
Yes, THAT John Kerry, now Massachusetts' junior Democratic U.S Senator in Washington, D.C.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Yes there's lots more. He used to say the "WRA" on their
license plates stood for "We Ride Around"
An oft-repeated Duke story from Howie: Dukakis has a couple
union heads over to his house and he offers them a beer.
"Sure," they reply, and Mr. Extravagant returns with
one 12 ounce bottle (or was it can?)...and 2 glasses.
Hey big spender!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Not content as the only state in the US losing population, Massachusetts is now intent on becoming the first state to go out of business.
It's been a long time since Dukakis was governor. Peoples' memories are not that long. They don't remember what a joke he was.
We make it...they take it...in Massachusetts
Wasn't that the slogan back then?
Or rubbing alcohol, for that matter.
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