Comparing Clinton to Dukakis is incorrect. Dukakis was a straight-up stone cold northeastern liberal and Clinton was a southern moderate.
Clinton made the largest cuts to welfare in the program's history, announced during his state of the union that era of big government was over, cut government more than Reagan, made huge cuts to the capital gains tax, reduced the federal workforce more than any president in generations, and surrounded himself (
pre-Newt) with an ultra pro free market economic team.
In short, Clinton was fiscally more like Reagan than Reagan (but for his cosmetic difference on the top tax rate). [also. Reagan raised taxes twice, increased the debt because of unnecessary cold war bluster, and left the nation with crippling deficits]
Talk Radio, the blogosphere, and FOX News is raising a generation of conservatives outside history.