Because if there’s one guy who knows how to win a tough election, it’s the guy best known for failing horribly as the Democratic nominee in the 1988 presidential election. I mean, his Republican opponent only captured, oh, 426 out of 538 electoral votes and carried 40 states. What could possibly go wrong?

According to the Boston Globe, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (D) recently visited the White House to give his strategy for the midterm elections: “pound key precincts across the country with the message that Republicans want to implement the same policies that led to the Great Recession.”

Said Dukakis: “It seems to me there has to be a single message coming from Democrats, from the president on down. We’ve got to pound that message as hard as can from now until November.”

Pathetic.