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3 Apr 2014, 5:59 am by SHG
  Once people realize that this was all hype from the outset, it could take decades before turning it around with another Willie Horton commercial. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 2:23 pm by Lovechilde
  Could there be a more perfect segue than from Reagan's presidency to Bush I's famous Willie Horton campaign ad? [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 2:23 pm by Lovechilde
  Could there be a more perfect segue than from Reagan's presidency to Bush I's famous Willie Horton campaign ad? [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 4:43 pm by Lovechilde
  And for Exhibit B, how about the first George Bush's notorious Willie Horton ad? [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 2:00 pm
She tried to label Murphy as soft-on-crime, using Willie Horton style attacks ads — a reference to the infamous 1988 presidential campaign commercial critical of a prison-furlough program supported by Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis. [read post]
13 May 2014, 3:54 am by SHG
  But then, if there is broad, non-partisan support for the Smarter Sentencing Act, then the threat of being Willie Horton’d loses its mojo. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 10:19 am by Mark Sorkin
Already Floyd Brown, the nasty creator of the Willie Horton smears, has run ads assaulting Obama for his vote on gang-related murders. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 5:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”See related Grits posts: Christmastime clemency is a joke, but pardons could be meaningful remedy for 'government overreach' How the Grinch stole clemency: Christmastime pardons trivialize processCasting light on Texas clemency decisionsPublic tired of Willie Horton? [read post]
14 May 2012, 9:45 am
  Sure, he's got a claim, and I don't like that he had to spend the extra couple of years in prison just because the Governor feared that any murderer might result in the next Willie Horton advertisement. [read post]
31 May 2012, 9:23 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
“This is Willie Horton stuff,” Barrett said about the ad’s claim that Barrett was involved in classifying the baby’s death as a lesser crime. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:27 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
“The Democrats are still afraid of a Willie Horton moment,” says Grover Norquist, who heads Americans for Tax Reform. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 12:19 pm
He's caught in a Willie Horton trap, and it's a web of his own making. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 9:17 am by David Lat
Another campaign poster by BIRTHER that was sent our way looked like this:At first I wondered if this was some kind of Willie Horton tactic, but as it turned out, I just wasn’t hip enough to recognize Ol’ Dirty Bastard. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 7:36 am
The case presents Huckabee with a clear problem, along the lines of Willie Horton, the furloughed rapist who helped sink the 1988 campaign of Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 3:31 pm
  And, of course, who can forget Willie Horton. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 10:19 am by Mark Sorkin
Already Floyd Brown, the nasty creator of the Willie Horton smears, has run ads assaulting Obama for his vote on gang-related murders. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 11:04 pm
According to this article in Salon, after a Willie Horton-esque parole incident:He has refused to take the predictable path by talking tough on crime to deflect the DuMond criticism. [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 3:10 am by SHG
"  No one, no adversary in a future election, can point to anyone pardoned and yell, "Willie Horton. [read post]
Now that economic issues have eclipsed the fear of rising crime, the spectre of Willie Horton has given way to the image of the lazy black person living off unemployment. [read post]