Posted on 10/21/2012 5:03:15 AM PDT by NJRighty
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972, died before dawn Sunday. He was 90.
A spokesman for McGovern's family, Steve Hildebrand, told The Associated Press by telephone that McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and lifelong friends.
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There are certain communist monsters that have no redeeming qualities: Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky, Hugo Chavez, Kim Il Jung, Fidel Castro, John McCain.... other than those, there are redeeming qualities.
To ask the question is to answer it.
Decent respect requires virtue on the part of the person who expresses it. Today's Leftists eschew all virtue, even while many of their forbears did not; that is why they so frequently lie without regret.
George McGovern was a man of a different, and a better generation. I agreed with him about almost nothing, but always respected his common decency, his bravery in war and his love of his family. RIP.
“There are a lot of brave young soldiers’ names on a black wall in Washington because this horrid man was a communist sympathizer.”
I agree with this part of your post. Only us old-timers will remember how his anti-American speaches & rantings energized the enemy to continue their fight to promote Communism.
His alliance with the leftest hippies like Jane Fonda, Jerry Rubin, Abby Hoffman, et al, did IMO cost the lives of young Americans fighting to halt the spread of Communism in SE Asia.
We’ll get flamed for our opinions. We’ll be told to “go back to DU”, blah, blah, blah. No big deal. My reverence for a former enemy of freedom evaporate when that person slams America when we needed to unite against the oppression and torture inflicted on innocent people.
Having said that, I do wish to extend my most sincere prayers to his family and loved ones, but he was in no way an “American Patriot” as some here have expressed.
I wasn’t around back then but I’ve never understood why Nixon thought he had to pull the illegal stuff, when he was roundly kicking McGovern’s ass anyway.
You mean Watergate? Nixon had nothing to do with the break in. The people around him did it without his knowledge or permission. What Nixon did was lie about it and try to cover it up once he became aware of it and the media started digging into it.
Of course. I'm surprised I missed it.
George McGovern was a man of a different, and a better generation. I agreed with him about almost nothing, but always respected his common decency, his bravery in war and his love of his family. RIP.
Agreed.
Did the honor-bound Democrat of years past NOT know where the party was headed? Could they have been that blind?
Not any more, there's not.
FR has only been active since late 1998.
I know for I am one of the early members of FR. (12/5/97)
As far as obituarys are concerned, great joy can (and should) be expressed as an enemy who has done damage to our freedoms and country expire.
McGovern is no exception.
He flew a B-24 for the 5th AF during WWII and completed his 25 missions over some of the most defended targets in Germany, Romania, and Austria. The man served the AF with honor and class; he was a true patriot. RIP George.
And some in here would be happy if he burns in Hell.
As far as obituarys are concerned, great joy can (and should) be expressed as an enemy who has done damage to our freedoms and country expire. McGovern is no exception.
Yes, but we have a longstanding tradition of confining that joy to threads other than the obits.
It's one of the many things that sets us apart from D.U.
RIP
Laz, You have been a Freeper since before there were Freepers.
No, and that's why so many Democrat politicians of McGovern's generation either became Republicans or independents over time, especially in the south.
It has become a commonplace to say the JFK would not today recognize his party, and I believe that is true. But among those who survived the 60s and 70s were many who saw the writing on the wall, as liberalism increasingly gave way to the current brand of secular, amoral, puerile and grievance-based radicalism that dominates today's Democrat party.
“I think he had a late-life conversion about the dangers of big government and high taxes and regulation.”
No way. McGovern has had a house in my gated community in St Augustine, FL for the last 4 or 5 years, recently having to give it up. There was no conversion. He fervently spoke to Dem groups and had articles in the local paper about how correct the Obama administration’s policies were for the country.....the same policies that have brought the country to its knees.
His party is responsible for the deaths of millions of unborn children in this country...as a result; I will just have to keep my mouth shut re: one George McGovern.
Then we, too, could have had OUR Bill Clinton.
This is an acceptable alternative, when on an obit thread. Plenty of places where you can nail him. Good job.
True, but Kennedy had better taste in women. And as far as we know, he didn't rape any of them.
As one FReeper stated the other day, Ted Kennedy has been sober for over three years now.
And you are correct, our responses on obit threads do set us apart from DU.
5.56mm
Chavez is the reason I have ever had a post deleted by the mods. Seems one fishy Freeper suggested to the Venzuelan people what they should do to with their fearless leader. :)
RIP
These ‘new’ liberals, who use 4 letter words in every other sentence and spit on everything holy, should try to learn from his example.
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