mcgovernites were this bad?
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.
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.