Unforced Errors By Presidential Candidates

Watching Donald Trump make a series of about 4 unforced errors per week led me to think of other Presidential candidates who may have done damage to themselves. Were any as bad as what we're seeing today.

Hillary Clinton has a little bit of a problem with fudging the truth - there are no emails, I never requested such and such - but they always seem to be very esoteric issues on the border of anything people might care about.

The only candidate I can think of who made some clear unforced errors would be Michael Dukakis. First, he refused to say that he wouldn't raise taxes (It's an impossible promise to keep, but Bush had no problem pretending to believe it.) Second, he admitted to being a "liberal" as the Republicans had defined it, and he never convinced America that there was a definition of "liberal" that didn't mean "communist." Last was driving around in that tank looking like he was having a great time in that stupid hat. Touring a military instillation is appropriate; treating our defense apparatus as a toy is not.

Any other unforced errors come to mind?

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