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Ribbit, your link didn't work for me, but I would like to say that Senator McGovern was a wonderful man and a great American. I had the opportunity to meet him and speak with him at length a few years back. One of the greatest moments of my life. He was a statesman, a humanitarian, an extremely intelligent man, and one I have always admired. I have to admit that I have shed quite a few tears at his passing, and I send prayers to his family.

Who ever reads that article and believes it, deserves better. McGovern would have been a terrible President and the country knew it. He only carried one state in his bid for the high office but the news media try’s to blame it on dirty tricks of the Republicans? Give me a break.

 

Today our democratic party is using every dirty trick in the book and the news media plays right along.

Hunter S. Thompson supported the wrong candidate to run against Nixon in 1972.  McGovern won only Massachusetts and Washington D.C.--even losing even his home state of South Dakota.  Dr. Thompson ended up saying some great negative things about Nixon in his fantastic book, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.  The scariest thing is that many of his ridiculous Nixon comments ended up being true in the long run.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so.

It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to make an issue out of the bungled attempt to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee, calling Nixon the most corrupt president in history.

But the Democrat could not escape the embarrassing missteps of his own campaign. The most torturous was the selection of Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton as the vice presidential nominee and, 18 days later, following the disclosure that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression, the decision to drop him from the ticket despite having pledged to back him "1,000 percent."

It was at once the most memorable and the most damaging line of his campaign, and called "possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential candidate" by the late political writer Theodore H. White.

After a hard day's campaigning — Nixon did virtually none — McGovern would complain to those around him that nobody was paying attention. With R. Sargent Shriver as his running mate, he went on to carry only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, winning just 38 percent of the popular vote in one of the biggest losses in American presidential history.

"Tom and I ran into a little snag back in 1972 that in the light of my much advanced wisdom today, I think was vastly exaggerated," McGovern said at an event with Eagleton in 2005. Noting that Nixon and his running mate, Spiro Agnew, would both ultimately resign, he joked, "If we had run in '74 instead of '72, it would have been a piece of cake."

 

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/george-m...29782--politics.html

In his first year in office, McGovern took to the Senate floor to say that the Vietnam War was a trap that would haunt the United States — a speech that drew little notice. He voted the following August in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution under which President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the U.S. war in the southeast Asian nation.

While McGovern continued to vote to pay for the war, he did so while speaking against it.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

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