My 1972 run for president: A campaign fiasco that wasn't (George McGovern)

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 2/6/04 | George McGovern

[brbethke]

Ah, yes. The *brilliant* McGovern '72 campaign:

What's wrong with this picture?

[ladtx]

Great. First we have Bill Clinton out there trying to tell how great his presidency was now McGovern's trying to tell us how great his almost presidency was.

[tedkrack]

Not obvious to me why anyone would care what McGovern thinks anymore.

[Lucretia Borgia]

I'm beginning to think I should vote for Republicans, if for no other reason than when their terms are over, they shut up and go away.

[Joe Boucher]

The problem with Kerry, Clark, Dean as well as the other Dims is that they each would turn our soverinity over to the U.N. The U.N. is an anti American anti capitalist bunch of socialists.
I am an America firster and hope to keep things that way.

[MJY1288]

How Pathetic of McGovern

[SquirrelKing]

McLoser.

[TheGeezer]

McGovern promised to give every American a sum of money if he won. It was - what - $5,000, or something like that. I recall, as a senior in college, laughing about it then. McGovern was (and apparently still is) a boob.

[dirtboy]

I have endorsed retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark for the Democratic nomination. If my opposition to the Vietnam War made some think I was unfit for the presidency, I give you Wes Clark, a four-star general who was a twice-wounded hero of the Vietnam War and supreme commander of the Kosovo intervention, which saved thousands from a genocidal ethnic cleansing.

Well, that shows that McGovern is just as clueless now as he was in 1972.

[johniegrad]

What motivates a man to make public apologies for his campaign 30 years ago? Why open one's self up to continued public ridicule when hardly anyone talks about it anymore? There is something very sad about his editorial.

[akorahil]

Mondale and his Minnesota mentor, Hubert Humphrey, who, like me, was defeated by Richard Nixon, were U.S. patriots of unquestioned integrity and ability.

Yeah, I see that Mondale is a real winner when it comes to "unquestioned integrity"....

Why does Mr. McGovern remind me of that scene in The Two Towers with Gollum talking to himself...

McGovern-Press readers in Minnesota are my friends!

Press Readers-You don't have any friends! Nobody likes you!

[paltz]

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SC Delegate-Senator Mcgovern, you want us to do all they[ the North Vietnamese] demand and then beg them to give back our boys?

Sen. Mcgovern-I'll accept that. Begging is better than bombing.

[brbethke]

What motivates a man to make public apologies for his campaign 30 years ago?

I think he's preparing to demand a late recount.

[apillar]

Clark should feel honored that he's locked down that all important McGovern endorsement...

[RAY]

I respect McGovern for flying B17 bombers over Germany, during WWII, but not his politics.

[PaulJ]

McGovern promised to give every American a sum of money if he won.

It was $1,000. And I remember some entrepreneur (right wing, no doubt) printed up gag $1,000 bills with a a picture of McGovern in the center.

As a side note; In 1972 I was 18 and this my my first opportunity to vote. And I voted for McGovern! Yes, I used to be young and liberal. (My wife says now, I'm just old and cranky)

[Consort]

The Democrats are now living in the past. It's the Vietnam era all over again.

[IncPen]

If you look at it long enough, it begins to look like Mouse ears.

[Lucretia Borgia]

In 1972 I was 17 and working on the Nixon campaign, while future hubby was sporting McGovern buttons. All it took to convert him over the good side was for him to be mugged by the public school dist over one of the kidlets.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Hint: What happens when one of these gears turns?