Posted on 10/21/2012 5:03:15 AM PDT by NJRighty
True to a degree.
I’m not enamored of Romney, but he’s a far sight better than either of the choices we had in 1972.
Interesting to ponder the mess we would have been spared had McGovern won. Within months of that election, VP Agnew had to resign on a plea bargain to keep from going to prison, and the whole nation was absorbed in the story of a Nixon White House full of crooks.
McGovern was a truly terrible candidate and would almost certainly have been an ineffectual President. I watched first hand as he put audiences to sleep. I believe he was a nice, but wrongheaded, man. Nixon was wrongheaded without the nice.
There’s a difference between having no sympathy for someone’s political views (I have none, either) and wishing eternal damnation upon them in their obituary thread. Or do you will endless torment upon everyone who disagrees with you politically?
And as for ‘stopping contributing if your posts get pulled:’ grow up and stop throwing your toys out of the pram. If you’re old enough to remember ‘72, you should be able to manage that, at least.
“Ted Kennedy has been sober for over three years now....
And his body is so well preserved with alcohol he will not decay for 200 years.”
(The body of John Paul Jones was so well preserved in alcohol that when his lead coffin was discovered a century after his death, the Navy gave him a second funeral.)
However, the Scotch fumes rising from Kennedy’s grave have resulted in Arlington security having to shoo away the homeless.
He WASN'T a patriot. What BULLSHIT to call him one! Everyone fawning over him and saying he was needs to give it a rest. The media will build that facade quite well all by themselves.
How many PATRIOTS embrace communist dictators like Castro? How many PATRIOTS aid our enemies? FU George McGovern, and everyone else who tied our military's hands and made sure their communist masters won Viet Nam!
My first exposure to politics was selling “Ice Cold Goldwater” in cans at a fall Pancake Day community event in ‘63. I was still trying to find my way in college and was briefly enamored with liberal politics in the 1960s/early 70s but saw the results and pulled away. I never liked what I saw in Nixon and never cast a vote for him (I didn’t vote the “president” line. Setting that aside, much of the 1970s Viet Nam issues were parked on Nixon’s door. I always interpreted this as blacking out LBJ’s accomplishments.
RIP.
A FReeper as old as me! :)
I’m finding the physical annoyances of increased maturity more than offset by the wisdom of experience.
Cheers back at ya.
Am I too late to say ‘I thought he was dead’?
To his credit, I believe that he opposed the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” which would’ve destroyed the secret ballot in union meetings that Reid, Pelosi and the rest were trying to push through a few years ago.
Sidenote: I don’t understand how Nixon’s daughter Julie Eisenhower could’ve found McGovern too liberal to support in 1972 but think Obama wasn’t too liberal for her to support in 2008.
Anyhow, RIP to a former Democratic presidential nominee who was at least slightly to the right of Obama.
I wonder if McGovern would have saved Israel’s bacon in 1973, like Nixon did?
Possibly. I think at that time, liberals still liked Israel. However, I’m glad we didn’t have to find out for sure.
Yeah, but in typical liberal vanity fashion he was quoted as saying, “I wish during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made be a better U.S. Senator and a more understanding presidential contender. . . . We intuitively know that to create job opportunities, we need job entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off these opportunities.”
To me that’s an arrogant statement so far after the fact it’s comical. Like a deathbed “coming to Jesus.”
Mind the caps, if you please!
Himmler, was somewhat similar...
2nd largest margin defeat...1st place was Wilted Mundane, I mean, Walter Mondale.
At least he was intellectually honest enough to admit later that his ignorance about business led to some pretty stupid policies on his part.
Excellent story. thanks
Prayers out to his family. I remember when he ran. I didn’t agree with him then or now (was too young to vote back then). He was a decent and honorable man despite his political leanings.
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