“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.
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.
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).