Dukakis In A Tank, 2006. [View All]

Once every few campaign cycles we get to witness a defining moment in a political campaign, for good or ill - but for some reason the bad ones seem to make a much bigger impression. Think Dukakis in a tank or Poppy Bush in front of the bar code scanner. Those are two prime examples of defining moments that sealed the fate of the candidates involved. In Dukakis' case, it supplied his opponents, the media, and every comedian in America with a permanent image of a presidential candidate looking like a complete idiot. In Bush's case, it marked him as so out of touch he didn't know what a gallon of milk cost and had no idea that there was such a thing as a bar code scanner. In short, forever marked as completely out of touch with America. Not even 'Message: I care' (yet another misstep) could bring him back.

The derisive backlash against Lieberman's 'Bears' ad could be worse than both of the above examples, because it makes Lieberman look both out of touch and completely buffoonish. Buffoonish, of course, because of the total lameness of the ad, and out of touch because he apparently bought into the idea that this could in some way be an effective ad.

Lieberman could not possibly have been more wrong.

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