Posted on 12/03/2011 10:13:55 AM PST by libstripper
Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was being treated at a hospital in South Dakota after falling and hitting his head on the pavement outside a library bearing his name.
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Beat me to it. I was wondering if he fell on his left side.
Prayers for the McGovern family that he may have a quick recover. I am not sure his politics except that he was Democrat but doesn’t sound like he was the Democrat of today which is just awful. Maybe he was I don’t know. Prayers just the same.
I was surprised he wasn’t hospitalized after his fall in ‘72.
Well..., hope the buzzard isn’t too ill.
I am reminded of McGovern on the campaign trail in 1972, and would relate it to others this way.
You could take just about any of the “Occupy” protesters off the street, and run them for president, and they would be about as coherent and do as well as George McGovern circa 1972.
There is a famous exchange that McGovern had with a business partner. After leaving government, McGovern went into business with this partner. He soon found out how difficult a task it was to start a business. He was dumbfounded on the degree of difficulty that government regulations created. After a couple of years of hard struggle with no reward and the frustrations emanating from these regulations, he finally exclaimed to his partner, “How is it possible for anyone to succeed in starting up a business? Who in the hell came up with these stifling regulations?” His business partner looked at him and replied, “You did, Senator. You did.”
Great one. Gotta love it...
True. My great-uncle fell off a ladder, and when they got him to the hospital to have his broken arm set, they found he was dying of liver cancer. My dad went up to (he thought) visit him a few days after the fall, and said, "I thought I'd be sneaking Uncle Paul some beer in the hospital, and instead, I carried his coffin."
WWII vet 30++ combat missions, distinguished flying cross.
He was pretty far to the left for a Democrat back then. Was an otherwise decent guy, war hero, but he lost alot of support not just over his mishandling of his VP choices, Sen Tom Eagleton of Missouri, but especially when he said he would go to NVN and personally beg for the release of the POWs
He also started the Quota thing with delegates.
The Nixon Campaign had a field day with both issues and he was doomed. The election was called within the first hour as I recall.
True dat. His politics were all wrong, but he served his country in wartime with distinction. I wish him the best.
The underlying condition that leads to the fall is important, but the possibility of a concussion is also an unfortunate aspect of this. Older folks often develop dementia in short order after a head injury in a fall.
Interesting that McGovern recently wrote in opposition to Big Labor’s push for card check saying that denying workers a private ballot was un-American. Despite his leftist leanings he was a true war hero in WW-II and for that reason alone should be given respect. PS McGovern was the speaker at my high school graduation in a small town in South Dakota and someplace I have a picture of myself with McGovern.
I remember one nutball leftist after another going up to the podium to squawk about their pet issue. I was a Dem at the time, but I couldn't vote for McGovern. The rank and file Dems were not nearly as left-wing as McGovern. The Dem party is now the party of McGovern i.e. nutball leftists.
McGovern was also a decent person and not nearly as vindictive as Obama. But their politics were pretty much identical.
...who later gave aid and comfort to the enemy with his deeds and words in the 60s & 70s.
I marched in Nixon's '73 inaugural parade as a member of our armed forces, and faced to the same dirty, smelly, rotten protesters who now call themselves Occupy [fill in the blank]. They were McGovern's shock troops and, like John Kerry, his fellow traitors.
McGovern may have gotten an epiphany after leaving politics.
Yeah, I agree. I remember watching the Convention with my Mom and while we both voted for him (Dems at the time), there was something in the air about the Dems that wasn’t fitting with our values. And you are right, it was one nutcase issue after another. Typically, they couldn’t get anything right, remember they fooled around with some many self interest speakers that McGovern’s acceptance speech was delayed until really late when alot of the nation had already gone to bed lol. No wonder his campaign was a disaster.
I still remember the line about the 3-martini lunch and the non deductible baloney sandwich lol. The class warfare was on.
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