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"McGovern: Making History by Repeating it"
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/ ^ | 09/08/2008 | "hillbuzz"

Posted on 09/09/2008 11:27:43 PM PDT by 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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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; georgemcgovern; mccainpalin; mcgovern; obamabiden; obots; zerobama
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To: NinoFan
Fixed. History does repeat itself. ;)

Nice job FRiend. ;)
21 posted on 09/10/2008 4:41:17 AM PDT by mkjessup (If Ronald Reagan were with us today, he'd say "Vote McCain/Palin, & Win One More for the Gipper!!!")
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To: iopscusa
Thanks for the memories of the McGovern campaign. I was a college student and remember the despicable and childish supporters on campus.

The liberal unintelligentsia have always sought to sow their seditionist seeds in our colleges and universities, McGovernites were just crabgrass compared to the virulent strains we see now.
22 posted on 09/10/2008 4:44:48 AM PDT by mkjessup (If Ronald Reagan were with us today, he'd say "Vote McCain/Palin, & Win One More for the Gipper!!!")
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I’d just like elderly Dems to go to DummyU to see what youthful Obama fanatics say and think.


23 posted on 09/10/2008 2:37:06 PM PDT by driftless2
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