to emulate in their own thinking.
However, it is often simply the image that is trotted out as evidence of patriotism. This can be seen in an exchange that took place in the 1988 presidential election. At the time, questions were being raised by the news media concerning the heroic record of George Bush in World War II, since there were stories that he had not performed some of the heroic actions attributed to him. Michael Dukakis rejected this appeal to patriotic imagery as a campaign method and stated, "I don't think that kind of thing has any place in the campaign. . . You don't fly 58 missions without enormous courage and tremendous patriotism." However, George bush was quite ready to use images of patriotism against his opponent, as if acceptance or rejection of a symbolic act or object proved something vitally important. this was evident when bush said of Dukakis, "What is it about the Pledge of Allegiance that upsets him so much?" Michael Kinsley, set forth as a liberal on television, though more accurately described as a libertarian,
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