{"id":3040,"date":"2012-08-19T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/19\/a-dukakis-momen\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","slug":"a-dukakis-momen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"A Dukakis Moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15290,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/iconicphotos.wordpress.com\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/18\\\/dukakis-in-tank&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/iconicphotos.wordpress.com\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/18\\\/dukakis-in-tank&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15291,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/emilyslist\\\/status\\\/237220035918188547&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/emilyslist\\\/status\\\/237220035918188547&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5778,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ma-rooned.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ma-rooned.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15292,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/legalinsurrection.com\\\/2012\\\/08\\\/elizabeth-warrens-dukakis-tank-moment&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/legalinsurrection.com\\\/2012\\\/08\\\/elizabeth-warrens-dukakis-tank-moment&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There must be something in the water up in Massachusetts. I can&#8217;t think of anything else to explain the propensity of liberal Democrats to sit atop heavy metal to prove their toughness.<\/p>\n<p>First, there was former <a href=\"http:\/\/iconicphotos.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/18\/dukakis-in-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Michael Dukakis who rode on a M1A Abrams tank in 1988<\/a>. That image plus the Willie Horton ads probably doomed his presidential campaign as much as anything.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have Harvard Law professor and US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren pictured astride a Harley. You can almost hear her saying, &#8220;Vroom, vroom!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilyslist\/status\/237220035918188547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It was tweeted by Emily&#8217;s List<\/a> which seeks to support liberal female candidates. However, it was pretty stupid as people are already calling it her Dukakis moment. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Eliz-Warren-Harley-1024x577.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Eliz-Warren-Harley-1024x577.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nRather than calling it a Dukakis Moment, I think Fauxcahontas just wants to be like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ma-rooned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JayG of the gun blog MArooned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nH\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2012\/08\/elizabeth-warrens-dukakis-tank-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Insurrection<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be something in the water up in Massachusetts. I can&#8217;t think of anything else to explain the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[506,2845,403],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-jayg","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8279,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/8279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}