McGovern used to be 100% loony. Now he has backed off to about 65%. Progress. A little exposure to reality helps a lot. Too bad he is so set in some of his ways, though:
“My party has well-deserved majorities in both houses of Congress, and I am thankful to have an exceptional president in Barack Obama.”
Has McGovern made progress, or has the Dem party raced far beyond his formerly secure position at the far extreme of the loony left?
Sound bites McGovern never uttered in his failed campaign of 1972:
"First, we're going to eliminate the secret ballot in labor union elections."
"Next, my courts are going to redefine marriage so it doesn't have to be one man with one woman."
"After that, we'll release anti-American terrorists in our cities and put them on welfare."
"I'll nationalize the automobile industry, the banks, and the major news media."
"I'll raise the federal deficit to $1.17 trillion, but then I'll try to shave $17 billion off that number so we're only spending an extra $1.15 trillion a year of our children's money."
Even SNL, if it had existed in 1972, wouldn't have gone quite so far beyond sanity to spoof McGovern's liberalism. It's not that George recovered. His party went off the deep end.