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You were the first in a long line of Democrats to get slimed by the Republican Party in the early days of it's Ugly Attack Dog Mode. Blame yourself for the mistakes of your own campaign, not for the ugly, slimy thing the Republicans turned their party into. I think you're a good, decent man, if one with zero charisma.
I used to think of Republicans as good, decent people I simply happened to disagree with. Well, Newt Gingrich, GHWB, GWB,Dan and Marilyn Quayle, Dick Cheney, Jack Abramoff, The Hammer, Donald Rumsfeld Condi et al, really poisoned THAT well for me. Twenty years down the line, we're finally seeing evidence that people are getting tired of that act, even though lying, negative slimeball campaigning still works, to all our sorrow.
I sure wish sometimes that GHWB and Barbara had used a bit more contraception before GWB turned up. But Dukakis blaming himself for those two presidencies at this late date is just a little bit of reverse self-aggrandizing and a bid for attention.
