Posted on 10/15/2012 5:17:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Longtime former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in a historic landslide, has moved into hospice care near his home in South Dakota, his family said Monday.
"He's coming to the end of his life," his daughter, Ann McGovern, told The Associated Press.
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He also wrote a very moving book about his daughter Terry’s alcoholism.
Prayers up.
McGovern was a hardcore leftist and admired Joseph Stalin just at the time that the Iron Curtain was descending on freedom in Eastern Europe.
He was the perfect dupe of the reds, a liberal who once studied to be a clergyman, as well as a Bloody Mary propaganda stooge for Tito and his communist Partisan movement.
When he forced landed his bomber in the Adriatic, he was “rescued” by Tito’s forces and treated well. He swallowed their communist propaganda so well that when he came back, he was a big supporter of Tito in the US against the pro-freedom military leader of the Chetniks, Mikhailovich.
McGovern also supported the key components of the Hanoi Lobby during the Vietnam war, endorsing their protests and speaking at some of them.
He probably was a nice guy, loved his wife, and served his country well in wartime. But it is what he did against his country that also counts. He didn’t get to the “Benedict Arnold” stage, but his did hurt us and betrayed tens of millions of So. Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians to horrible deaths (by the millions), torture, imprisonment, and destitution when Hanoi won the war.
I count many of these victims as among my friends and acquaintances, and I know how a few died at the hands of the reds.
McGovern was misguided but his damage to freedom was extensive, and we are still paying for it today.
Glad he’s dead. One less fool we have to deal with in a nation overflowing with like-minded stooges, dupes, and blind-to-reality voters.
An honorable democrat. God guard him with eagle’s wings, and give peace to his family.
He’s the only Democrat I voted for. At the time I thought he was a decent man. Now, I realize he was the beginning of quotas and PC pandering.
Good luck to him
Well said...
His Bed & Breakfast buisness went out of buisnessd due to excessive regulation of governments. He said as much. He said he never realized how difficult government made it on private buisness.
If he remained a Democrat he couldn’t have repented of much.
He really had no idea his voting record would ultimately lead us to socialism. An honorable man, but in tne end just another useful idiot.
I think they knew exactly what they were voting for
of course, we grow up....we start to understand....
and now low and behold I haven't voted for a democrat since Jimmy Carter the first time....
Election day , half way through ,
Someone should create a fake twitter
account that he voted for Romney.
I didn’t support him at all. I hope he’s not in pain, and that he has plenty of friends and family around him.
Wow.... I thought he has already passed away....
“Glad he’s dead.”
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Um...he’s not...yet.
I was a teenager when McGovern ran for president and like many others of my generation, I protested the war in Vietnam and embraced other aspects of liberalism. A lot of us did crazy, downright stupid things back then. We believed all that peace and love BS. We honestly thought we were doing the right thing.
Then we grew up. We found out how wrong we were. Most have repented and I hope we have been forgiven.
Whatever McGovern did back then is over now. At this point, I would rather leave McGovern’s judgment in His hands. We are all going to have to face that judgment someday.
Glad he’s dead? Sorry that you’re so bitter. He can’t hurt you anymore.
McGovern could pull a good scam too.
He ran the Democrat committee which changed the delegate selection process in 1969. Then he ran and won in 1972, using rules that he himself helped to establish.
That is the very definition of conflict of interest, but no one called him on it at the time. It wasn’t until he did a complete turnaround on his VP nominee Senator Eagleton, supporting him 100% in public but in private forcing him off the ticket, that the public comprehended his duplicity in political matters. “Image of candor chief casualty of Eagleton affair” was the title of the article by William Greider which best explained how McGopvern blew it.
1000%
McGovern was running for President during my high school years (was too young to vote by one year), and I did consider myself to be a Democrat at the time. But I wanted to see Scoop Jackson get the nomination. I did not like McGovern’s anti-military stance at the time, and I was planning a career in the military. I was also following the Soviet build up at the time as well (the high school library stayed current with Jane’s Fighting Ships, and I was the first to get my hands on the latest).
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