For those who may have ignored the initial link (posted yesterday), I’m reposting this nine-year-old Politico piece, It’s very refreshing when a political campaign staffer admits to simply having made (or more precisely been part of) a colossal mistake. I would love to watch a political campaign series called “Boy, Did We Fuck Up or What?”
If I had been in Michael Dukakis‘s shoes, I simply would have said “I don’t care how unsafe it is to not wear the helmet…I’m not wearing it, period. It makes me look like Rockey the Squirrel. And if that means we can’t do the tank thing, fine. I’m not stupid and I’m not fucking putting it on. In fact, fuck the tank thing anyway. Forget the whole thing.”