re: #123 Joe Bacon 🌹

I gave up on CNN when their stooge set up Dukakis in the 1988 debate.

It was a difficult question, but if Dukakis has been faster on his feet he could have answered it. Mario Cuomo had no trouble answering the exact same question when local papers asked him the next morning.

For those too young to remember:

The question was “you say you’re against the death penalty, but what if it was for someone who raped and murdered your wife?” Dukakis sort of stuttered and stammered, and in the end had nothing useful to bring to the topic.

Cuomo’s answer was “the guys who mugged my mother and put her in the hospital, if you’d put me in a room alone with them I’d have dismembered them myself. But the dispassionate, considered decision of a court of law has to be more civilized than the visceral reaction of an angry son.”