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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No, that was Elenor Mondale, I believe.
Actually, she was pretty hot at the time...
Mark
It’s sad that a WW II hero became such an anti American twit.
Actually, Alzheimer’s would be a really good way to die. Obviously, for friends and family it’s miserable, but for the person “suffering” with the disease it’s an easy way to go. You don’t have a worry in the world.
Call me cruel and/or demented, but since your nervous system is dulled beyond belief, there’s very little pain for the person suffering with Alzheimer’s.
He was trounced. For some reason, the blue states now red.
You’re right. McGovern would be a decent human to have a beer with, but his common sense quotient has always been remarkably low.
I was going to say the same thing. He was a B-24 pilot in WWII and flew many missions over Germany. I have no idea what he is thinking now.
I think you meant 35. :)
Is that old turd still emiting CO2?
“...painfully concluded...” Yeah, right. McG has always been a moonbat, and now he’s just an old moonbat. We should listen to a guy who ran for president once, because he’s like an expert, or somethin’.
Old DIMocrats. McGoverment, McJimmy McCarter, McKlinton, just a bunch of stupid, idiot, slime ball liberals. They are still wondering out in the woods. Lost as ever. Stupid as ever. RED as ever. Socialist as ever. Fools as ever.
Yikes, you’re right! I guess I’ll blame it on the “Nashional educashion Assocatin”... : )
George McGovern: Impeach Bush and Cheney (and their family and pets too) before we win the war against Al Qaeda.
Send them both to the gulag in Siberia!
They have been there already. Counted the votes there among the prisoners in the gulag. Said the vote was fair and correct.
Yep, it's a subliminal thing. I believe the demonrats and the MSM hijacked the blue because red associates with communism.
That was 35 years ago.
So that means there were no grounds to impeach President Nixon either then. I really like how he puts Mr. Bush, President Nixon, Vice President Agnew in the same sentence. Loser McGovern.
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