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Originally Posted by champstark
Reagan calling Dukakis an invalid when he couldn't remember what he had for breakfast is pretty ridiculous.
Yep. 3 things stood out:
1) Dukakis seems like he's still in good condition (assuming his footage is recent) more than 30 years later. It's ridiculous that Reagan would slam him on any health-related issue. (Although it does go nicely with his line from a Mondale debate: "I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
2) Seems the Dukakis camp was just not good, and they weren't prepared for any of the attacks/criticisms from the Bush campaign. Dukakis basically says, "Clinton got exactly the same degree of attacks that we got, but his campaign was effective at anticipating and responding to them. We weren't."
3) Dukakis had a decent lead before the conventions before getting wafflecrushed.