http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-12-05.html#read_more For those too young to have seen it, the ad showed a bunch of nondescript prisoners going through a revolving door set in a prison fence. It was based on the horrific story of a first degree murderer, Horton, let loose on an idiotic weekend furlough by virtue of a policy championed by Mass governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. Horton went on a crime rampage and savagely brutalized a couple in Maryland before being recaptured. The ad was effective as it contrasted Dukakis' unique version of dopey liberalism at all costs against Bush's supposed hard line approach to crime and punishment. Somehow liberals and the media decided after the election however that the ad was the highwater mark of racist campaigning, apparently because Horton was, of course, black. Rather than laugh it off or defend Bush's ad, republicans have wallowed in shame for decades. Even now, the slightest hint that someone might play the race card causes them to turn and run frantically in full scale surrender mode. The supposedly republican Senate has blocked two well qualified judicial nominees on specious racism claims, all because Nikki Haley's affirmative action senator from SC, Tim Scott, objected. As Coulter points out, of all the idiotic policy disastesr Bush supported, the one thing he is being criticized for is something that was truthful, accurate, not at all racist and very fair campaigning.