As long as Liberals are in the minority party or the make-beleive world (media, academia, Hollywood, State Department or Wal-Mart greeters), they can huff and puff and charm to their heart's content. Just don't let them anywhere near the levers of power.
Most politicians are charming people; that's how they are able to succeed as politicians. Not many are miserable sonofabitches.
That said, McGovern was totally deluded in 72 and the people who write this newspaper are barking mad.
Many of our troubles in the last quarter of the Bloody Twentieth (century) and many of our troubles today stem from not following through with JFK's insight, "We need to make our power credible... and it looks like Vietnam is the place."
McGovern would have surrendered; and indeed, in the Senate, he took part in decisions that were tantamount to surrender. Appeasement, surrender and collaboration have been the hallmark of his party ever since. George McGovern and Gene McCarthy destroyed the Democratic party, starting the decline that has driven the party's patriots out, leaving only peace-at-any-price appeaseniks and I'll-give-you-my-neighbour-if-you-eat-me-last cowards.
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