Posted on 01/06/2008 10:37:13 AM PST by melt
(CBS) The former Democratic nominee for president who ran against a president later driven from office under threat of impeachment, today said that impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is "the rightful course for an American patriot."
George McGovern, a former South Dakota Senator who ran on the Democratic ticket in 1972 as an anti-war advocate, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that, while he steered clear of calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon in the '70s - fearing it would appear as "an expression of personal vengeance" against his opponent who won re-election in a landslide - McGovern said after seven years of the current administration, he has "belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment" of the president and the vice president.
McGovern also called the case for impeaching Mr. Bush and Cheney "far stronger" than what was the case against President Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election.
McGovern admits that while there is little bipartisan support for instituting impeachment hearings (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, has announced that impeachment is "off the table"), he said, "Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses.
"They have repeatedly violated the Constitution.
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Alzheimer's is a terrible disease...
As I said on the previous thread...
MCgovern: “Of course, there seems to be little bipartisan support for impeachment.”
Huh.
A sitting President was caught lying under oath in a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit — one where he was the accused executive level predator and the victim was a hapless low level employee.
Seems that “bi-partisan” support for an impeachment would be a snap.
But where were all the democrat hack Congressmen (and women) who pilloried Clarence Thomas based upon spurious allegations from a person whose sanity had been questioned?
They were NOT willing to step up to impeach OR convict.
Mr. McGovern, those of us who are old enough remember your anti-American record from way back. Now sit down and shut up.
He is a clown...all he needs is the funny hair and the big nose...oooopps he already has the nose...
Meadow Muffin
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
old liberals just keep getting dumber
Another let’s get even for the Clinton impeachment.
There is already a thread and it also is of little interest.
McGovern was a treasonous nitwit back in 1972, nothing has changed today. Wasn’t his daughter one of Slick’s distracions and one that really PO’d Monica Lewinsky?
This is the Washington Post editors’ idea of meaningful commentary in an election year! Thoughtful and insightful!
How do they manage to feed and clothe themselves, and get from point A to point B with their heads to far up their nether parts? And I am supposed to take their rag seriously, as a “newspaper of record.”
McGovern is having one of his spells, where he thinks he’s somebody.
McGovern is an old socialst fool.
McGovern is still alive?
Isn’t Jefferson’s trial this month?
Sorry. I searched, but found nothing.
You are thinking of Eleanor Mondale, Fritz’s daughter.
No... Eleanor Mondale
Didn’t you vote for McGovern in your younger years?
McGovern agreeing with Jimmy Carter? I’m shocked!
Well this is certainly in character for McGovern. Belated, parroted, and irrelevant.
IF I had thought of this guy, I would have thought he was dead!
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