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How Michael Dukakis' tank ad symbolized his 1988 campaign l FiveThirtyEight
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2018
- Did a bad photo op change history? While Dukakis denies his infamous tank ride as a turning point, the image was one that he could never quite shake.
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“I was going to run a positive campaign...”
The words of every single losing campaign.
*RBooster Man*
Obama’s 2008 was pretty positive, no?
*foulpotato*
I am no fan of what most of McCain’s policies were, but I respect the hell out of him for living and dying as a principled and patriotic man.
As for his 2008 campaign, his VP pick constantly dragged him down, he did not campaign well when the Great Recession hit, and the Republican Party had to contend with their general unpopularity due to Bush’s horrible approval ratings and the splintering factions within the Republican base. Those were just the internal problems with his campaign. We shouldn’t neglect that he was also having a race against a very strong candidate-Obama.
@@Kyle_Schaff Obama's campaign used negative attacks against McCain alluding to McCain's decaying appearance. And Obama skillfully combined that with "Hope and Change." A two-pronged approach. Note that Trump used negative attacks against his opponents and combined them with "Make America Great Again," a very similar approach.
Every campaign uses a mix of positive and negative ads. Dukakis ran ads questioning if a twice elected senator was fit for the office of the Presidency and other ads depicting the Bush campaign as a product. The only difference between the two campaigns use of negative ads is that Bush’s were more effective at influencing a portion of the electorate.
RBooster Man Now Biden is trying hard to hurt Trump and by being empathetic at the same time.
Halloween 1988 probably had a ton of those helmets with Mike Dukakis on it.
Hahahahahha
I didn't see any in Donnie Darko :(
@@robertsixto1246haha
@@tylord. you laughed at my joke 3 years later. I had forgotten I wrote this. Bizarre feeling.
If Dukakis won, then the defining moments would have been the Harvard-Yale attack comments and the infamous "You're no Jack Kennedy". We retroactively decide which moments are defining and which ones aren't. It isn't always easy to tell in the moment.
Very intelligent remark there is a lot of factors that let to bush winning im sure that the american people didn't even have the time to care about these moments if dukakis won the people in this video would have been talking about you're no jake kennedy they would have called it "the response that killed an entire compain!"
Yeah but think a out the political climate in 1988. The cold war had not yet ended, and there was an ad that talked about how Dukakis wanted to strip down the military all the while riding around like a dope in a tank!!! The ad was a critical blow to his campaign that he officially sunk with his non answer to Bernard Shaw's debate question.
How would this impact the 1992 election?
@@tbewin1z143 True...and on top of that, think of the *crime rate* back then-sky-high compared to what Americans typically live with today. Crime and drugs were two of the most all-consuming issues in American politics in those days. The Willie Horton ad probably had even more of an impact on this campaign than the tank ad, which was more of an opportunity for a good belly laugh than anything else.
a vice president debate isn't a defining moment for a presidential campaign at all....
1:14 "The Dukakis people know their man is not a great speaker..."
I personally know how true that is. In May 1989, months after the Presidential election, then-Governor Dukakis gave a speech before the graduating class at Worcester State College. It was a long, boring speech that just went on and on, and at some point a few hecklers were shouting "YOU LOST, MIKE!!!"
Bill Clinton learned a lot of lessons from Dukakis’ defeat.
He sure did
100%. Democrats in particular can't afford to run mushy, smiley campaigns because of the perception factor. Every successful Democrat ran aggressive and was quick on the counterpunch.
I was a baby during the campaign and my views are more on the conservative side, but there was a lot more than just the tank ad that sunk Dukakis
1. The Democrats having trouble finding a frontrunner after Gary Hart got KO'd by the Donna Rice sex scandal and then the plagiarism scandal torpedoed Joe Biden (for all the talk Dukakis made early in the video, his campaign manager was the guy who leaked the video that sparked that scandal)
2. 5 candidates won at least one contest (Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, Dick Gephardt and Paul Simon); and all of them except Simon won multiple contests.
3. Jesse Jackson hanging around even after Dukakis locked up the delegates needed for the nomination in the belief that as the runner-up he was entitled to the Vice-Presidential spot.
4. Dukakis being extremely slow to respond to the Bush campaign ads (maybe some overconfidence had set in following the Dukakis campaign getting the 17 point lead after the convention)
5. Finally, there was a much bigger defining moment that probably finished Dukakis off for good, and that was his absolutely lackluster answer to CNN's Bernard Shaw during the opening question of the final debate
Dukakis is a great man.And he would be a great president
True. The real surprise was how on earth he was 17 points ahead by convention time. For one, he was running to succeed Reagan, who was and remains widely revered, and Dukakus was everything Reagan was not. Most Americans would have given the Gipper a third term if it were possible. And secondly, Dukakis was running against Bush, Reagan's vice president, and a guy with more charisma and achievements of his own than Dukakis, let alone the closest Americans could have to a third term of Reagan.
@Paul Kryder Well, when you put it that way, okay. If he were still fit, there's no doubt they would have voted him in for a third term if possible. But that was not possible and he was ready to retire, so they voted Bush.
Wow. Smart baby
True. ABout the Bernard Shaw question destroyed him.
Dukakis looked like an absolute clown in that tank and helmet and to this very day, still in denial.
He was a weak canidate
The only clowns are those who mindlessly follow rightwing leaders to war and destruction.
@@ADAMSIXTIES Yeah our current "president" voted for and supported Bush's wars, all the while getting deferments when he was draft age!!! Also most of the wars happened under Dems!!!
@@ADAMSIXTIES And Obama started 7 new conflicts under his regime!!!
BIG TIME. He looked mentally challenged.
It could have been a powerful ad if it had the tank rolling up slowly with high camera zoom and stopping. Turret rotation reveals Dukakis who would take the helmet off, and say this is the tried and tested military power we need more of, not Bush and Reagan's science fiction toys. But, no, they shot a stupid ad of him riding around like a spoiled kid whose dad brought him to work.
This is so quaint, looking back now from the hellscape that is modern politics. I grew up during the 80’s and remember Dukakis as being synonymous with failure and weakness.
When the ABC Reporter said "Do it" at the end I couldn't help but think of Palpatine, lol.
People still don't seem to get that facts (yes, even scientific ones) don't matter. Politics is perception and only perception.
False promises and historical lies.
These are really solid documentaries! A little short but very well put together indeed and with none of the constant repetition or 1/3 second cuts that seems to be everywhere.
I remember that campaign.
Those commercials were brutal.
He looks like Captain Dork of the Weenie patrol
He did not look Pattonish at all.
Rommel would have had a field day against him in North Africa.
He refused to get into a mudslinging match. No wonder he lost!
Yep I agree. If you want to run for President then you better be willing to not only take the attacks but also attack yourself. Presidential Elections isn't a place where you can be "the nice guy". A lesson that John Kerry would learn 16 years later in 2004.
The craziest thing about this is the Bush environmental ad. This was back when the environment was actually something of a bipartisan issue. After all, no president did more for the environment than Nixon, aside from TR probably.
Biggest laugh I ever had with my dad was watching the tank ad come on tv one Sunday morning in 88. Thanks for the memory, Mike D.
Willie Horton was first brought up by Al Gore, who was an also-ran that year.
Very good, although it wasn't Willie Horton it was the weekend passes that GORE brought up
And Hillary's crew brought up the birth certificate.
@@andrewhoyle1521 OK, Willie Horton was an example of the disastrous weekend-passes policy for violent offenders. Gore brought it up. It just shows you race has nothing to do with it. Dukakis' image was that he was out of touch with the public. That ad just showed how awful his policies are. Period.
@@HusseinDoha Michael Dukakis actually was the one who ended the program he didnt even start it. It was bullshit no matter who said it.
@@andrewhoyle1521 it is pretty liberal to give a weekend pass to a violent murderer to give them the chance to committ evven more murder. if Dukakis was governor of california im sure he'd let out charles manson and Sir sirhan out again.
12:20 Uncle Sam breaks it down
Sleazy as fuck
100% explains the Kavanaugh nonsense.
Omg...what terrible mistakes he made during his campaign ! He had a softball campaign when Bush was playing hardball. When you aren't willing to get a bit dirty, you come across as weak ! Who would vote for the guy ?...no surprise he only won 20 percent of the electoral votes.
Not applicable in my country.
"i didn't lose because of the tank ad" says the guy who 100% irrefutably lost because of the tank ad.
Yes. The fact everyone remembers it is proof enough.
@Paul Kryder it still became the equivalent of a meme. It didn’t help that he was ok with someone r*ping his wife. But, the ad is still talked about, so even if you are correct (which is debatable), it is the most memorable thing about his campaign. The fact we are posting about it in 2021 is prima facia evidence enough.
@Paul Kryder Watch the interview again. The guy was a beta loser, not a man with leadership potential. Geraldine Ferraro had more leadership ability than Dukakis.
@Paul Kryder What we have serving today are just what you want. They are careerists who have become multi millionaires at our expense. They are weak and ineffectual as Biden is proving to be. Or, rather, his handlers as he doesn’t know where he is or what day of the week it is. We have had what you want for decades.
The world is still a dog eat dog place despite the bubble Americans live in. It requires strong leadership. The Roman Empire wasn’t built by weak men using a feminist consensus model. A feminized America won’t survive, either.
@Paul Kryder I see you have nothing logical or convincing left to say.
looking back, I am not surprised that Bush-Quayle beat Dukakis-Horton.
Lol! I see what you did there.
It was a whole bunch of stuff that ruined his career, but the tank ride was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back
Reagan is mocking Dukakis on his mental health while at the same time slowly developing symptoms of Alzheimer's. Oh the irony
While also working to reduce access to facilities where severely mentally ill people could get the care they needed. As governor of CA he worked to make such facilities for profit institutions that made money based on heads in beds rather than actual improvements in the patients conditions. Upon becoming president he immediately revoked a federal program started under Carter that helped to fund community mental health facilities. His move among many of his other policy decisions would see many severely mentally ill patients tossed into the streets with no access to care. It went on to create what is one of the worst homeless population crises ever in the United States. A series of homeless crises that we are still very much dealing with today. It is a shameful and downright fucking criminal legacy.
"If it works... do it."
The difference is, Reagan was approaching 80 and was very accomplished. The much younger Dukakis had no excuse to drop it.
Lmao blaming Reagan for the homelessness in California is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all week. Reagan hasn’t been governor in more than 30 years. Liberals have ruined that state after Reagan made it prosperous. If you don’t believe me just take a look at the people running it and their *horrible* real estate laws.
And what did Dukakis say?
"No apology was really needed,″ Dukakis said. ″We all occasionally misspeak and I don’t think the president needed to apologize.″
Man, the Democrats were and are pathetic.
Curious how on earth he managed to get a 17 point lead in the first place. Despite Bush having every advantage in the book. Bush was by himself more charismatic, more experienced, more politically in line with America at the time. And he was endorsed by Reagan.
I think it might have been to do with the prospect of a third republican term when Reagan’s approval ratings weren’t actually *that* high at the time. Voters usually want change at first, I guess they just quickly realised that the Dukakis kind wasn’t very appealing.
But I wouldn’t know for sure, I wasn’t alive at the time…
I was alive and in college so let me try to explain. The Dems had a number of advantages back then that boosted Dukakis.
1) out of power 8 years
2) voters at state level far more aligned with the Ds back then
3) Reagan sliding in polls in 1987 as the fallout from Iran-Contra kept coming forth daily
And Dukakis had other things helping him:
1) Bush effectively ended the GOP race on March 8 while Dukakis got free coverage beating Jesse Jackson every Tuesday for 2 months
2) because the Dem primary voters were as terrified of Jesse getting the nomination guaranteeing they lost, Dukakis didn’t have to show how liberal he actually was at the time
In late May, Dukakis was actually 20 points ahead so the Bush campaign calculated they’d go on the attack the day Dukakis clinched (June 9 in CA) and cut into his lead. Three weeks of attacks lowered the Dukakis lead to about 9.
Also - Dukakis went to ground from June 9 until the Convention, making it easier for Bush to nail him every day.
Then the first intro many folks had to Dukakis was an attack laden DNC led by Ann Richards and Ted Kennedy.
So the 17-point lead was both a snapshot in time plus an illusion; most folks saying they were for Dukakis didn’t know the first thing about what his vision was, they just wanted a change and many hated Bush.
By October, Bush had the voters fearing Dukakis more than him.
@@Maestrohbill Well okay. Those first three factors could sway the tide in the Democrats' favor, except that the state level democrats could have had as much to do with the character and personalities of the gubernatorial candidates as well as policy. Reagan did survive a terrible scandal, but by July 1988, when Dukakis posted that big lead, Reagan had long since confessed and solved the crisis.
Even if voters wanted change, without knowing much about Dukakis' policy, he still lacked the charisma of Bush, never mind Reagan. Unfathomable he could get any attention, never mind a major lead in the poll.
And as for Bush, those who hated him, did they not vote for him as vice president? And if Reagan had earned forgiveness over the Iran-Contra, had the country rolling on the right path, didn't most voters want a third term for him (in which case, they'd vote Bush)?
@@broadstreet21
What you say isn’t incorrect from a different time but Bush was called a “wimp” based on his patrician manners. Also, Ollie North and John Poindexter were awaiting trial, so Reagan hadn’t really put Iran-Contra fully in the past. And nobody votes for VP anyway (not enough). But Dukakis leading was largely an illusion because Bush had high negatives and the voters didn’t really know much about Dukakis.
@@Maestrohbill Okay, I can see the illusion theory if voters don't know Dukakis. Even if they did, I would expect Bush to win a normal contest on charisma alone. Calling him a wimp for being patrician?? That isn't fair.
It wasn't the helmet it was the chin strap
coupled with dumb grin.
Sam Donaldson's closing comment. Oof. It's too true.
I understand why he was only very briefly mentioned in such a short mini-doc, but to really understand the ‘88 campaign and Bush’s victory you have to look at the late GOP strategist Lee Atwater. There’s a very interesting 2008 documentary called Boogie Man, which is about this supremely ruthless political operator who exerted such an influence and did so much to shape the direction that American political campaigning has taken since then.
Wait, can you “shape” a “direction”? Urgh, well, you know what I mean!
Dukakis was a very very poor campaigner 🤔
Even after all these years, Dukakis still talks at you while looking hunched-over, unsure of himself... almost "wimpy". He has the same inability to come across as forceful and honest as he did when he ran for President.
How the hell he was 15-20 points ahead is anybody’s guess. It’s scary how any time he was attacked he folded like a deck chair. In a way thank god he lost since it you can’t defend yourself and just let people walk all over you then you should not be a leader let along president
1988: well qualified guy looks kinda dorky in a tank, ruined forever
1992: well qualified guy misspells “potato,” ruined forever
2020: narcissist toddler vs. bumbling grandpa, neither can form a complete sentence, both have sexual assault accusations, no end in sight for either
You got that right and a capitol building is a Sandbox where four-year-old legislators fight over what to do about coronavirus
couldn’t have said it better...
@CommandoDude Until the Dems knelt in Capitol Hill and Nancy can't get up like a Life Alert commercial.
uh..NO..they both DONT HAVE sexual allegations against them, and did you see Biden's last 3 state of the union addresses?? (unless YOU think he was on cocaine in his 80s) What are you talking about? He has a stutter. It's a speech disorder. ..... but nice try, Comrade.
Sad that these two are the best of 330 million people. It’s sickening
Some people live in their own reality. The message behind the tank ad was that Dukakis can't be trusted on defence and national security. And don't be fooled by his tank ride. His criticism for defence-systems like missile defence couldn't be undone by his (6:52) speech calling for focus on conventional weapons. It's like saying you don't want to use cars, instead you will like to ride a horse. The helmet has nothing to do with it.
by your spelling, it is obvious you're NOT an American but an outsider and I am sorry, but IT WAS THE HELMET. The helmet had EVERYTHING to do with it. The ad was just an excuse to show him on that ride with his helmet...chinstrap askew, foolish grin....that IS what sunk him. If he didnt take that ride, he would have crushed Bush. Look how easy a no name governor from a non consequential state beat him four years later on. ANd WHY? Because th epublic saw Bush as milquetoast .....soft. ANd that tank ride made Dukakis look soft--foolish......dumb. And BOOM, Bush won.
@@markfrost2707 Your argument is over-simplistic. There were multiple things contributing to Bush's victory, and look at his margin of victory in 1988. Furthermore, his defeat in 1992 had to do with the fact he was merely a finisher, not a visionary. Cold war over, but what's next? Clinton was not a no name governor, not for long. He had the charisma to give Reagan a run for the money.
Well, His Campaign Tanked ( Pun Intended )
Dukakis was a lousy candidate! Plain and simple. Considering President Reagan's popularity and the State of the Union at home and abroad, I don't think any Democrat could have beaten Vice President Bush in 1988.
Sam Donaldson is impressively sharp for his age.
He is young for a Klingon
"Press was liberal, especially in those days"--Especially? If anything, they're way further left than they've ever been.
Pity, too. An objective press is important. We're all the poorer for not having one.
well the press doesn't necessarily have a liberal bias, more of a sensationalism bias.
@@michaellindley5832they are liberal dude; literally do not report on things that make democrats look bad
If you were in a sandbox you would throw sand, not mud pies.
I’m sorry but Mike has nobody to blame but himself. He was 15-20 points ahead and lost by 10. How on earth he was ahead to begin with beggers belief. The second the heat was put on him he folded like a deck chair
One of the memes for Trump's church photo-op brought me here
I think it was pretty exaggerated to think the tank picture tanked him just by itself.
then you werent there then..because that is EXACTLY what sunk Mike.
bruh i met him at my high school
For real?
The tank ad probably didn't help. But I think the debates really did him in. He was curt, aloof, sneering, and acted superior. He had literally zero personal magnetism and came across as a repellent jerk. Go back and watch those debates. He regularly cut off mediator questions, rudely argued the basic form of the questions, and condescendingly re-phrased the questions in innocuous form. It was abrasive and revolting to watch. By the 2nd debate when I saw he had not changed I realized he was done. Nobody watching him would want to work for or with him, much less see him running the country.
he's full of hubris here, too. Just watching this makes me not like him
even as a kid when I saw thast image of Dukakis riding in that tank I knew his campaign was toast.
3:29 OMG A TAN SUIT
Dukakis looked like a Special Ed student on a field trip
He looked like Alfred E Neumann
Only not as cool..
Ride 'em cowboy...yeehah! Go Mike....what a giant dufus! The only image worse than this would've been Hillary Skankles riding that Abrams.
Putin > Hillary
Wait did he just say the media was biased and liberal, especially in those days? LOL
My how things..... Change? Lol..... Or maybe stay the same....
Yeah Rs have been spreading that lie for decades.
IKR
@@LinkRockslie? the press covered up fast and furious, pushed russiagate, covered up the nursing home executive orders from 2020 by six democrat governors, said the russian laptop was russian misinformation, swept Biden's documents scandal under the rug, have done nothing but be an arm of the DNC for ages
Sam Donaldson's analysis is a disgrace to the normal functioning morality of everyday Americans: "If it works , do it, even if it's not true." What a sad indictment of the mainstream media in America, a theme that still resonates even today.
Gov. Dukakis looked like Snoopy on that tank. Sam said he voted for Barry Goldwater. I knew I liked him for something.
Where can you watch the full version of this documentary?
Dukakis had demanded a black panelist be on the debate. This brought in Bernard Shaw who asked the rape question which ended the race for Mike😢. Mike should have kept his mouth shut and a laid back person would have asked him an nice easy question.
Dukakis was simply too short and Greek.
He came across as a Carter clone.
not even
I remember that campaign. That was the first Presidential election where I was allowed to vote. By September of that year, I knew he was going to lose big to Bush. Those campaign ads just buried Dukakis alive.
My first time eligible to vote in any election was that year. I remember the tank. There was also a bit of dirty wordplay on the names Hart and Bush. “Women give their Bush to Hart and their Hart to Bush.”
The media learned a very important lesson from this. Hiding damaging footage from the Republicans is not enough. They needed to be extremely proactive in support of Democrat candidates and relentlessly push negative stories against Republican candidates. Even so, Republicans win some of the time.
@ 7:50 ...networks were "pretty biased, and pretty liberal, especially in those days". I wonder what he says now?
If Dukakis had Bill Clinton‘s campaign advisers in 1988 and his own campaign advisers and the guy who was on the video you’d probably win
3:30 Man Reagan was awesome in terms of his persona. He had that IDGAF attitude but he chose his moments to carefully display it. Unlike you-know-who who has diarrhea of the mouth and the fingertips
He's still yo POTUS!
@@thelugoffgamecock792 Not anymore 🤣
He makes an ableist comment and you praise him. Brownoser
What the hell was he driving around in a tank for? Who does that? I know the times are different, but I couldn't see Reagan or Bush jumping up in a tank just to be seen in it.
Dukakis was no Jack Kennedy...
As if the helmet wasn't bad enough, pasting his name on it was the kicker. He looked like a complete dork.
12:48 This guy looks like he's about to say "Rise and shine, Dr. Freeman, rise and shine..."
That CIA dude and the actor put on a great show for over a decade…no one else has done that since Truman
any poli sci class worth the zoom fee should show this.
Interestingly, no one on the Dukakis campaign took responsibility. Suddenly their great idea turned into a turd.
Ron DeSantis' new ad makes this look normal
And the white boots at the photo ops after Hurricane Ian aren't helping his image
Lol he won by 20 points. Your comments didn’t age well 😂
@@rogerigez21 Who said he wasn't going to win? Literally has nothing to do with the fact that his ad was insane. Anyone with a brain knew he was going to win FL.
Even though I believe in the concept of running a clean campaign in politics, if your opponent throws mud at you, you have to throw mud back and counter your foe's accusations with your own provided they're truthful as well as show what you'll do differently from him or her.
Dukakis was halfhearted with his counterattacks at best while Bush brutally hammered him with verbal attacks on his bad policies and how weak he'd been throughout his political career. Having then President Regean backing Bush certainly made Dukakis's job much harder but Dukakis let himself get punched in the face again and again in his attempt to be a nice clean candidate.
today it would be impossible for the MSM press corp to laugh at a Dem candidate.
1:19 Dinesh D'Souza (at bottom left)
Is it really him ?
Dude left out never mind if it’s legal
2024 … Right. 11:20 liability. T. is NOT “likable”
He looked like a little boy playing
G.I. Joe
The video Hilary should have watched before she got stomped by Trumpzilla.
@Barry Super That's not why Hillary lost lol. She lost because she ran an awful, arrogant campaign. She completely neglected a lot of vital states.
There were many reasons why Hillary lost, and unfortunately the Democratic Party hasn't learned a single thing, but instead make excuses like Russian collusion, and things like that. They don't want to take responsibility for losing, hence the reason why I am a former Democrat.
@@srichardf Thank you! I'm a former Democrat. They never learn
Bush campaing: Dukakis has bad sex.
Dukakis campaing: *Films Dukakis having sex live*
Sam Donaldson still rocking that hairpiece? Some things never change...
Yeah, it's was Kampfguppe Dukakis that did him in!
Am I missing something? I don't see anything wrong with the photo.
The photo itself is nothing to hit home about, it's the fact that someone with an image of a squeaky clean liberal riding on a hyper-masculine machine like a tank while looking like a kid on a Disneyland ride just looks ridiculous To make matters worse, Dukakis consistently voted against aggressive defense policies. Top Gun was popular in the 80's and they could've easily used a stunt double on the tank while it's in motion, then have it come to a stop with Dukakis stepping out with his helmet on his side making a comment about Reagan's sci-fi Star Wars while championing a real, tested weapon.
i was just hit with two ads before this clip. two.
sometimes theres an ad you cant even skip, i do not want this.
i am considering not using youtube any more, i will be looking over alternatives,
i am sigining up for spotify tonight.
Damn, it's like you expect RUclips to come in and beg you to stay
@@queenelizabethi5868 i would appreciate that, yes. if they could bring a ham over and touch my leg, say ive lost weight and my hair is beautiful.
who do you think you are anyway, queen elisabeth or somehting?
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God that last line is haunting.
11:00 The Gipper paid the piper wearing slippers and a diaper.
This is one of the easiest races in TCT to win when playing as the loser
The ticket should have been flipped -- and it would have been a race to a late election night.
Did a bad photo op change history? yes
The Tank ad was the brainchild of advertising tycoon Dennis Frankenberry (1947-1993) who produced most of the negative ads of the Bush-Quayle campaign.
Yeah like I don't understand what's so bad about it other than the 1980s was just high on bullying culture.
We called it the "Rocky Squirrel" ad.
Sam Donaldson totally wrong. Wille Horton ad was Factual and that's why is worked. Tank ad was factual, Duke was anti military..
I tank you in advance for your vote
It's the same damn helmet that would be on any other tank commander, what am I missing?
He looked ridiculous with the helmet and that chin-strap plus he looked smallish. Americans don’t like that. Perception is reality.
@@common12 I'm sorry, I just don't see it. I'll admit it's dorky, but HW isn't exactly Mr. Cool.
Funny, those high tech weapons made Desert Storm a success.
The only hat a politician can get away with wearing these days is a baseball cap, but Dukakis wouldn't look good in any type of hat. I was only 17 years old back then and too young to vote by 3 months, but even I knew that presidential campaign was one of the worst ones in modern American history.
9:05 hindsight is 20/20...CRT, BLM, criminal reform act, etc.
Remember this well.
Dukakis campaign did everything wrong their campaign..
It’s at this point he realized....I fucked up
"-THE HELMET FIT FINE!" >:(
Honestly, a campaign like this would be a harbinger of Donald Trump's tactics.
Hilarious. Dukakis was such a jerk. Thank goodness America didn't have to put up with him like we did in the Bay state.
Nothing will ever make me not think this photo is hard as fuck tbh
Trump looked even dumber when he was in the 18 wheeler. He reminded me of some kid in a sandbox, pretending he was a big truck driver. I honestly thought, for the 1000th time, that this would be the thing that finally make hime retire in shame.
DeSantis and his gogo boots
Mary Matalin and this Sig guy are ghoulish.