I know I wouldn't have voted for him, because I didn't. But he was a good guy. IMO wrong on Vietnam (later right on Cambodia, where he wanted us to intercede, too late), but a courageous American who served his country bravely. The Dems don't seem to be able to come up with those types of candidates anymore.
You sure have that right. Scoop Jackson was the best of that breed and today the Democrats run in three stripes:
Stupid
Naive
Evil
...or a combination thereof.
Listen, you. I was getting my a$$ shot at as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in Spring 1972 while this worthless a$$hole was announcing how he'd `go on my knees to Hanoi' to beg the release of the POWs suffering hideously at the hands of those North Vietnamese ANIMALS!
The hellish Nixon bombed the living $hit out of North Vietnam and actually secured the POWs release in 1973.
McGOO has been badmouthing the American people ever since for failing to elect him President-for-life.
McGovern is a worthless, arrogant snot. In 1984 he praised former KGB chief Yuri Andropov in the same sentence in which he denounced Ronald Reagan.
A small, mean, vicious man.
Call him Mr. Nice Guy all you want!
I met him a couple of times, he is a good guy. McGovern was working in Rome a few years ago on the issue of world hunger (not sure of his current gig), very informed and quite sincere. Don't know if he would or would not have made a good president, but he is an honorable man who served his country very well in WWll.