"McGovern: Making History by Repeating it"

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[Attention Surplus Disorder]

We keep saying this — and no one seems to listen — but over the course of this campaign, we’ve met about 50 people who worked on McGovern-72, and every one of them said to us, without quivocation, that the main reason McGovern lost to Nixon was McGOVERN’S SUPPORTERS. The way McGovern’s “youth army” behaved, and the terrible things they did in McGovern’s name, worked against their candidate and every day drove more people who would have never voted Republican over to Nixon.

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[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Historical confirmation of the "McGovern effect"

[GOP Poet]

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[ari-freedom]

mcgovernites were this bad?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I have to confess that at the time I was on their side, although I never did any campaign work for McG.

As I recall, the hatred (for Nixon and primarily VietNam) was there, and it was vivid, but it never reached anywhere near the utterly depraved depths of vileness we see in these current attacks on SP. Of course, the tool(s) of the internet and Photoshopping and blogs and unattributed sources a go-go etc; didn’t exist back then.

[Jeff Chandler]

McGovern never called Agnew a pig.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Another vile website is "retardedbaby.com".

The website has apparently been shut down, but I found a copy at google's cache:

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:wLzxGFe9uLkJ:retardedbaby.com/about/+retardedbaby.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=us&client=firefox-a

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

George McGovern had way more class than Obama does.

Obama calling our Sarah a pig was so offensive and disgusting. It made me so angry.

[ari-freedom]

we also didn't have anti-social fanbois and internet trolls in those days

[Free Vulcan]

They do this stuff because they don’t have machine guns and shock troops to mow us down...yet. But if they have their way and Obama gets elected...

[Rodney Dangerfield]

I rembember it well. At elementary school, our Teacher’s brought us up one by one and asked us who are parents were going to vote for. I didn’t know, so I (correctly guessed “Nixon”) and was booed by students and teachers alike.

Well, mostly by the teachers. It was then when I became interested in politics and became a “Repblican” at age 12

Tough in 1972 San Franscisco and living at my best friends house which happened to be a commune while my parents were in “the old country” making arrangements to bury their last living elder. Living at the commune was my choice, because my best friend and his brother, who was my 2nd best friend lived there.

But that summer, I knew I was in “enemy territory” and got my first view of how the leftist mind thinks, and how the Gov. owes them a living, and the working man is evil, etc...

And how the mindset of entitlement along with Marijuana can be so debilitating and I watched those people fall into an abyss. The things they were spewing only made me laugh inside to myself. These people were serious. They thought MGovern was going to win. The looks were priceless.

That is my McGovern story. I survived it and came out to be a smart, well-adjusted conservative with a slight Libertarian edge.

[Minn]

What’s the “SoetorObama” thing about?

[Judges Gone Wild]

What are these people trying to accomplish by creating such a site? They have realized that the election is lost, so they have thrown a temper tantrum. If you have to attack a Down’s Syndrome infant to feel good about yourself, you have lost all self-respect.

[CaliforniaCon]

RE: “mcgovernites were this bad?”

YEP, they were horrid, but it sure made for a fun election night when their bubble burst before their eyes.

[mkjessup]

I remember '72 as if it were yesterday.

George McGovern ran one of the most inept campaigns in history, it started with his selection of Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate, and when word began to leak out about Eagleton receiving shock treatment for depression, first McGovern declared that he was '1000 percent' behind Eagleton, but it wasn't long before Eagleton was kicked to the curb.

Then there was McGovern's famous "$1000 for every person in America" gambit (and $1000 was a lot of money in '72), and it came across as raw pandering (what else?) and it was no secret that McGovern and the 'Rats of that era wanted to turn tail and retreat in Vietnam.

Interesting background on McGovern: he was raised by Republican parents, but deliberately chose NOT to affiliate himself with any political party UNTIL the election cycle of 1948 when he registered as an Independent, joined up with the so-called 'Progressive Party' and worked to elect former Vice President and closet Commie Henry Wallace President. How much of a Commie was Wallace?

He was enough of a Communist that the Communist Party USA chose not to run a candidate that year, and endorsed Wallace.

And McGovern was all for the Communist-endorsed candidate.

In a funny "can you believe that" sub-plot, Bob Novak was busy stirring up trouble in '72 as well, and reported that an unnamed Democratic Senator had told him that McGovern was "for amnesty (of draft evaders), abortion and legalization of pot." As a result, McGovern became known as the the candidate of "amnesty, abortion and acid."

And Novak protected the identity of the mystery Senator until after he died last year, and the source of the 'amnesty/abortion/acid' comment?

Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri.

You just can't make this stuff up! LOL

But to return to a serious note in conclusion, had George McGovern somehow become President in '72, America would most likely still be a mass Soviet gulag, his policies would have led to the utter destruction of our Republic, and the likely conquest of the entire planet by the Soviet Union.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“What’s the “SoetorObama” thing about?”

I believe “Soetor” was Obama’s bio father’s last name.

[SeeSharp]

I remember '72 as if it were yesterday.

I was 12 but I remember a Nixon TV ad with little model aircraft carriers and a hand that swept them away as a voice ominously described McGovern's plans.

[NinoFan]

“But to return to a serious note in conclusion, if Barack Obama somehow becomes President in ‘08, America will most likely be a mass leftist labor camp , his policies will lead to the utter destruction of our Republic, and the likely conquest of the entire planet by Russia and/or China. “

Fixed. History does repeat itself. ;)

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What’s the “SoetorObama” thing about?

I believe "soeter" is the Greek word for "Savior."

[iopscusa]

Thanks for the memories of the McGovern campaign. I was a college student and remember the dispicable and childish supporters on campus.

[mkjessup]

I remember a Nixon TV ad with little model aircraft carriers and a hand that swept them away as a voice ominously described McGovern's plans.

Great ads, and all they had to do was tell the truth. Nixon had (by that time) morphed into an atypical RINO but given the choice between him and McGovern, there could be no question that "Nixon's The One!" ;)