About the Election
Leckachman, Robert
Robert Leckachman lilichael Dukakis has been a liberal, a champion of fiscal responsibility and in his latest phase an enthusiastic practitioner of industrial policy, translated into cooperation...
...His positions on abortion, school prayer, and capital punishment contrast favorably to Bush's all-out embrace of the lunatic right wing of his party...
...His running mate, a handsome nonentity of scarcely visible intellect, turns out, superhawk that he was and is, to have been a draft dodger during the Vietnam war...
...True, Dukakis also advocates more publicly assisted housing and universal health insurance, details and price tags unspecified...
...Finally, there is the Supreme Court...
...Bush will never raise taxes...
...On foreign policy and weapons programs, Dukakis has been enlightened...
...Dukakis contemplates increases as a last resort...
...His running mate is one of the fattest cats in the senate, no small honor...
...Bush would solidify a reactionary majority well into the next century...
...If you can bear to listen to the candidates' utterances, there is little to choose between them...
...Dukakis' choices will reflect his own commitment to civil liberties and civil rights...
...Yet there are three reasons at least to vote for Dukakis instead of staying home or migrating to Canada...
...Robert Leckachman lilichael Dukakis has been a liberal, a champion of fiscal responsibility and in his latest phase an enthusiastic practitioner of industrial policy, translated into cooperation between state government and corporate enterprise on terms exceedingly generous to the latter...
...Both support day care...
...George Bush runs on the magnificent achievements of Ronald Reagan with a few grace notes of social concern for working mothers, the environment, and even acid rain...
...So—one cool vote for the Duke...
Vol. 35 • September 1988 • No. 4
