European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns Jim Fain the stars and stripes a Dukakis too Prissy to target wide open Bush orce Bush could have spared i Mii in i in mud slinging. Michael Dukakis jews k to Ingeorg us the. L amateurism did t matter. The democrats would have been deemed with a clone of Jack Kennedy. The electorate has Lur cd sharply to the right and will repudiate any Liberal. So goes the self serving Litany of the far right now echoed by some main Stream commentators bunk. True the old confederacy no longer is yellow dog Democrat. Yes some Young people lean marginally rightward in Reagan s Thrall. To politics has blurred traditional parly lines but poll show the nation s heart remains steadfastly centrist and deeply distrustful of the economic darwinism Reagan and Bush embrace. So How did Bush pull off a 30-Point reversal pretty much the Way Ranald Reagan look Grenada. Unopposed. With two wet Noodle candidates neither attracted a Persona following. Bush was blessed with state of the Art handlers. Dukakis had the Sisters of mercy and kept tying their hands behind them. The Bush scenario is Well known. Tar Dukakis with Willie Horton the pledge Acle gun control and Alt those hot but tons. Keep him on the defensive. Dema go Luciy sure but it shifts the focus off issues and More importantly off Bush. The Duke just stood there occasionally citing subparagraph a article in of the Marquis of Queensbury. He could have waxed a Little indignant then. Leaped to the attack once the other tide got Down and dirty he had a brass ring for brass knocks. He was Loo Prissy to use it. Bush was a fish in the barrel on arms for the Ayatollah. He sat through 17 National Security briefings and remembered none. He was just Asfa a target on flip flops. Throughout a sycophant career he has shuffled convictions faster than Gro William f. Buckley Oky. Their Leader rejoiced Over the assassination of Rob Ert Kennedy featuring a picture of him lying in a Pool of his own blood his face transformed to the likeness of Apig. At or Bernstein s luxurious apartment his guests were lectured by Black Panther Donald Cox who began by announcing that if business did t provid Fuu employment then the panthers would simply take Over the Means of production and put them in the hands of the people to which prescription or Bernstein s reply was "1 dig  you get the sinking feeling that Lenny docs not real ize that pne of the reasons the a word is discredited is that it was handled by such As Leonard Bernstein Over the years with his dislocated perspectives the Liberal were easy prey for the Black panthers. Tom Wolfe caught it All definitively when he wrote about Mau making the flak catchers there was one Genius in the Art of confrontation who had Mau Maung Down to what you could term a Laboratory science -. "   he had it figured out so he did t even have to bring his boys downtown in person. He would jus show up with a Crocus sack full of revolvers ice picks fish knives switchblades hatchets blackjacks Gravity knives straight razors hand grenades blow guns bazookas Molotov cocktails tank rippers unbelievable stuff and he d dump it All out on somebody s shiny Walnut conference table. He d say these Are some  things 1 lock off my boys last night.  v and the nubile liberals would do their Little shuffle digging it ail As Lenny digs liberalism. But he will go Back to music soon As Michael Dukakis will go Back to the John of Kennedy school of government the opinion expressed in the column Tad cartoon son this Page represent those of the authors and Art in no Way to be considered a representing the Erlewi of the stars Tat stripes or the United slates government