Channeling Charlton Heston?
Via The Hill
Matt Bevin, the conservative challenger taking on Senate Republican Mitch McConnell (Ky.), hopes his opponent has stumbled onto his Dukakis moment of 2014.
Recent polls show McConnell far ahead of Bevin, but a gaffe could narrow his lead.
Bevin’s campaign is comparing McConnell’s awkward brandishing of a musket at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week to former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis’s (D) ill-fated tank ride in 1988. The indelible image of the liberal governor wearing a bulbous tank commander’s helmet helped seal his loss.
The problem for McConnell is Bevin is not the only one drawing the unflattering comparison. So is his hometown newspaper.