Well, it wasn't from a Democratic source. It's not 1988. Republicans need to look back: Democrats are looking forward. McCain is no Ronald Reagan, and Obama is no Dukakis.

In Fairness, Bush the Elder was an obvious front-runner from the outset and clinched the nomination early in the contest. With the outcome settled so early, Republicans in the later primaries had no particular reason to come out to vote.

Dukakis did not clinch the Democratic nod until much later in the process, so there was more reason for Dems to go to the polls.

Twenty years later, there was no prohibitive front runner in the Republican field until recently and even now, many members of the Republican base are coming out to cast protest votes against him and still their turnout lags far behind the Dems. Totally different situations.

Oh and thatnks for resurrecting the "Dukakis in a tank" picture. Maybe you could find a screen capture from the "Willie Horton" ad to add a little more salt to the wound.

Hopefully the Republicans will keep repeating this to themselves. Dukakis? Really?

1988 was not very competitive for the Republicans. Bush I wrapped that up pretty early.

Very deceptive analogy.

Any bets on when Steve stops shilling for Hillary?

I'm honored that she's now following my strategy of waiting for the big states.

We only got candidate Dukakis because of Gary Hart's spectacular self-immolation and the confusion of his on-again off-again campaign that followed.

If Clinton and Obama were photographed in a seedy hotel room having sex with each other and Gravel wound up as the de-facto nominee, you'd have an apt analogy.

They put a Ford pickup in the background as a prop to ruin the photo op.

Never mind that Dukakis served in the Army.

Chris Matthews wasn't around then to admire this like he did the 'Mission Accomplished' stunt.

Ironically, he went to teach in Hawaii in later years, and help them with a policy of universal health care, the first state to do so.
http://www.hri.org/hri/dukakis.html

Perhaps, instead of drawing conclusions based on their carefully timed and scripted rhetoric, we should draw conclusions based on their history.

Twenty years later, there was no prohibitive front runner in the Republican field until recently and even now, many members of the Republican base are coming out to cast protest votes against him and still their turnout lags far behind the Dems. Totally different situations.