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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I think the country already made it known, 25 years ago, what they think of you George.
Now shut up and sit down
Probably not...I don't think anybody did.
The dhimmicrats have demonstrated such a commanding knowledge of the constitution....NOT! We really should be worried about the fact that both the dhimmicrats and the repulsicans both present to us “leaders” who are - by any means of measure - of even lower intellect than journalists.
I don't suppose McGovern said exactly what these supposed Constitutional violations were?
Very possible. Titles completely different. The other one is scrolling by now too.
I was 15 when McGovern ran.
I did vote for Carter in 1976.
a decision whose fruit borne kickstarted my transformation
And people used to make fun of Pravda.
Pauline Kael of the New Yorker once famously said that she found it incredible that Nixon beat McGovern because “nobody I know voted for Nixon.” McGovern actually won Manhattan, one of the few large precincts he won. Even Cook County (Chicago) Illinois voted for Nixon, and they didn’t even vote for Reagan.
I did, Then I voted for Carter... Ahhh to be young, drunk, and stupid again...
Impeach the ‘Rats and RINOs in Congress.
I was 16 when Clinton ran the first time, and would have voted for him back then were I eligible. I sort of came to my senses four years later and voted for Harry Browne.
GET A LIFE
McGovern reminds me of a song...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.....Irrelevant since 1970 too....
I thought he would have been dead by now,but no-he’s still spitting bile as ever..
This article mentions that McGovern was an "anti-war" candidate. Let's not forget whos war this actually was. Many people seem to forget that it was the dems, under Kennedy, who got us into Viet Nam, and it was the dems, under Johnson, who escalated it, ensuring a long and bloody engagement. Only after the republicans got in did the dem establishment get "serious" about getting us out of the war. As usual, the dems got us into the mess, and the it was up to the republicans to extricate us from the dem's mess. All the while, the dems were doing all they could to make it more difficult for the republicans. To the point where the leader of the enemy's military practically thanks the media, and one senator from MA in particular, for helping them to win the war.
Mark
Their rationale of the left is obvious. The believe that impeachment hearings during the campaigns will generate so much bad publicity for the GOP, the party will lose the election. But the voters would see an impeachment attempt for what it is: a politically-motivated ploy to influence the election.
On what basis, George? Because 'Rats don't like them?
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