[HighSierra5]

You voted for McGovern? I voted for Nixon cause I knew then that McGovern was a commie. Nixon wasn’t great but better than the loser from South Dakota. But you have the freedom of choice and are entitled to exercise it.

[Robwin]

Yes, McGovern. I knew he had no chance and I wanted to register a protest against the profligate spending policies of Nixon (his administration even proudly announced it was spending money "like a drunken sailor"); his rapprochement with China which I saw as both a betrayal of the free (Taiwanese) Chinese and a silent endorsement of one of the bloodiest dictatorships in human history; but most of all his creation of OSHA, an intrusive and unConstitutional government agency.

So, yeah, I voted against Nixon, who was no Conservative by any definition of the word I can think of.