As it was non news few took them up on it...

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"At the time, Republican strategists for President Bush's father compared the governor in the tank helmet to Rocky the flying squirrel. That image was widely replayed as Republicans pummeled Dukakis for supposedly having "liberal" policies. Dukakis was soundly beaten by Bush's father.

Asked the significance of the photo of Kerry in the anti-contamination suit, Republican chairman Ed Gillespie smiled broadly and said, "We just thought it was a great photo."

The Boston Herald splashed the unusual photo across its front page with the headline: "Boston, we've got a problem." The headline was a spoof of the famous astronaut's quote about the endangered Apollo 13 mission to the moon.

Dukakis, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, dismissed a question Tuesday night about whether Kerry made an image goof when he donned the clean environment suit during a visit to NASA in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday.

"That's utter foolishness," Dukakis said as he and wife, Kitty, greeted people on the Boston Common. "I don't even know why you guys are spending any time on this. This is a serious election about a president."

Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer said: "The Bush administration is scrambling to divert attention from its failed Iraq policy."

Chris Heinz, the 31-year-old son of Teresa Heinz Kerry, said of the NASA photo: "He's smart enough to be an astronaut. I think that's a good place to start."

Republicans gathered at the GOP war room on Tuesday tried to pick apart a suggestion by former President Clinton that Kerry has the "strength and..."
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