Mike Dukakis

OPINION|Barry Richard: Dukakis is Still Out of Touch
OPINION|Barry Richard: Dukakis is Still Out of Touch
OPINION|Barry Richard: Dukakis is Still Out of Touch
Back in 1988, former Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis so embarrassed the Democratic party, not only by losing the presidency to George H.W. Bush, but by losing his man card in the process. Dukakis, a technocrat, lost that race for a myriad of reasons, but what drove the stake the deepest into his heart was his image as soft on crime weenie who would not even support the death penalty for someon