Dukakis In A Tank, 2006.

[americanstranger]

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.

http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=20060616173223696

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[napi21]

1. Is the ad on the net anywhere?

I did a google search, but all I found were several different articles.

[americanstranger]

2. YouTube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7jDn4McAXr4&search=joe%20lieberman%20bears

Get ready to feel embarrassed for the Joementum campaign. The ad is a disaster.

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[vicman]

3. It's here

at least for now...

http://www.joe2006.com/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=30&page=view&catid=8&PageNo=1&key=2&hit=1

[napi21]

5. Thanks. It really is a stupid ad! n/t

[beyurslf]

4. Oh my that was a bad commercial

[charlie]

6. I don't know if it'll taint Joe like the tank episode

but it'll certainly get Joe's -mentum going in the wrong direction. I can't believe his campaign was stupid enough to sign off on it.

[Hamlette]

7. does Lamont agree with the republicans 80% of the time????

I'm lost here, but then of course, I loved Weicker and have always hated Lieberman for beating him. Well, mostly the issues he used to beat up on him about.

edited for typo

[americanstranger]

8. Not that I know of.

AFAIK, that assertion is about as real as the cartoon bears.

And I agree with you on Weicker - he was one of my heroes during the Watergate hearings.

They don't make Republicans like him any more. Sad.

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