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Dukakis and the Tank. . .The inside story of the worst campaign photo op ever.
Politico ^ | November 17, 2013 | By Josh King

Posted on 11/19/2013 12:35:32 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

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To: Brad from Tennessee
To the folks who organized that photo op, two things

1) Thank you. Thank you very, very much.
2. Why couldn't you have done the same for Barry? His uncritical media wouldn't laugh at him anyway so it's probably a moot point.

21 posted on 11/19/2013 12:49:20 PM PST by hometoroost
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To: Zeneta

“Everybody” thinks the problem was the helmet.

I respectfully disagree. The problem was his name stenciled across the front. That makes it look cheap, and stupid, and insecure.

IMO. YMMV.


22 posted on 11/19/2013 12:49:53 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Paine in the Neck

The Duke actually served in the US army in Korea and was an Eagle Scout.


23 posted on 11/19/2013 12:50:33 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone you see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: Brad from Tennessee
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24 posted on 11/19/2013 12:51:58 PM PST by 728b (Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
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To: Zeneta

Everytime I see this I think of “Spaceballs”....


25 posted on 11/19/2013 12:52:36 PM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: 728b

the Void of Space looking in his gun to see if it is loaded...


26 posted on 11/19/2013 12:54:49 PM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Johnny Carson had a great line about Duke in the Tank. It went something along the lines of “with those eyebrows, you look just like the enemy, comrade!”


27 posted on 11/19/2013 12:55:51 PM PST by DemforBush (A candy-colored clown, they call the sandman...)
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To: Zeneta

LOL! I wish I saved that thread of John Kerry. Some had bunny ears, which were funny enough, but my favorite was some FReeper animated the air tube to make it look like JK was being “filled up” with Heinz ketchup.


28 posted on 11/19/2013 12:56:44 PM PST by boop (I had no IDEA I'd be paying for Obamacare. I thought it would be a rich guy.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; ...

Howie Carr list ping.

Howie Carr (Boston conserv talk host/columnist/true crime author) has said he has this pic in his office and he wrote under it TANKS FOR NOTHING


29 posted on 11/19/2013 1:00:56 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Where can we locate Matt Bennett?

It’s really well past time we awarded him with some kind of medal for sparing the nation from a Dukakis Administration.


30 posted on 11/19/2013 1:00:56 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 728b

At least it’s just set for semi-auto fire. Good thing they kept the ammo away.


31 posted on 11/19/2013 1:01:25 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: NorthMountain

>>the helmet.

The late Jerry Williams, talk host, used to say it made him look like Snoopy. (Curse You Red Baron!)


32 posted on 11/19/2013 1:01:45 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If only this writer had written this column in ‘88, we might have had a Dukakis presidency. /s


33 posted on 11/19/2013 1:02:32 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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Impeach Obama

Support Free Republic.
Thank you!

34 posted on 11/19/2013 1:02:53 PM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: a fool in paradise

When she won the Oscar (tm) for Moonstruck she yelled out “Allright Michael (her cousin) let’s go!”

On the Jerry Williams show on WRKO Boston, a caller sang, to the tune of Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable”: “Unelectable...”


(from same show)
PEE WEE HERMAN (Howie Carr nicknamed Dukakis pee wee):
What’s the secret word today?

DUKAKIS: Taxes...

(Sound effect—woman screaming)

PEE WEE HERMAN: So when you hear the secret word...
SCREAM REAL LOUD!


35 posted on 11/19/2013 1:05:04 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Paine in the Neck

Maybe so. I never did see what was so negative about this photo otherwise.


36 posted on 11/19/2013 1:06:41 PM PST by Professional Engineer (I am not cynical. /s)
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To: boop
...I wish I saved that thread of John Kerry. Some had bunny ears,...


37 posted on 11/19/2013 1:09:36 PM PST by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Today this sort of thing gets votes...
38 posted on 11/19/2013 1:12:17 PM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Hate to think something so trivial is the most memorable event of the campaign. That’s the press for ya’.

Wonder what would’ve happened if Dukakis won and the whole Bush clan had retreated to Maine and Texas...


39 posted on 11/19/2013 1:12:53 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Professional Engineer
Film at link about 6:35 shows the ad and it's mentioned it aired on 10/18/88 during World Series.

"Michael Dukakis has opposed virtually every defense system we developed. He opposed new aircraft carriers. He opposed anti-satellite weapons. He opposed four missile systems...the stealth bomber and a ground emergency warning system against nuclear attack. He even opposed our rescue mission to Grenada and our strike on Libya. And now he wants to be our commander in chief. America can't afford that risk."

So people heard what the Duke was about. And saw him in what was clearly a photo op to show he'd support the military. As the man who at one time was his Lt Gov would later say, "I'm John Kerry and I'm...REPORTING FOR DUTY!" Yeah both served but here Dukakis was shown for what he was...

REPORTING FOR DUTY

40 posted on 11/19/2013 1:15:26 PM PST by raccoonradio
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