"The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else."
Posted on 08/16/2012 3:53:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Obama could tell us how he is 1000% behind Biden!!!
(Remember Thomas Eagleton?)
"The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else."
Thanks for reminding us of McGovern’s traitorous behavior in Vietnam. Over the years, I have shocked many liberal friends by stating unequivocally that, even if I knew then what I now know about Richard Nixon, I would readily vote again for Nixon over McGovern.
“I’m serious.”
You may be serious but you are also woefully uninformed or ignorant of the facts.
How many Freepers voted for for McGovern for president? First time I was eligible to vote, I did. By time Reagan was up for the second term, I finally got wise, and I have been a Reaganite since!
If conservatives think the Dems only recently went off the left side of the political universe, they should have seen the ‘72 Dem convention. I was a Dem at the time, but I was shocked to see a parade of leftist wackos prance up to the podium and give their deluded visions of what they were going to do to America. I couldn’t vote for McGovern, and I didn’t much like Nixon. But I sure wasn’t sorry McGovern lost. Unfortunately, we have George’s ideological successor in the White House. I doubt he’d have a Damascus-like revelation that McGovern had.
That would be an incorrect assumption. When I saw the people i.e. leftist kooks McGovern had surrounded himself with in '72, I got the feeling I might be leaving the Dem Party at a future date.
I went to a McGovern rally while in college. Air-heads. Hair-heads. Pot-heads. Professorial pinheads. Commies-The ones that wore that beanie cap with a Red Star on it. Reminded me of the KFC special they were running...”All left wings and assholes!”
Ha,ha, that sounds like a description of the kind of people Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) wanted for his gang of cutthroats in Blazing Saddles. Thanks for the laugh.
That is suicide.
He was a traitorous POS socialist way back then...
Odds are he’s still a traitorous POS socialist now.
Old commies never die; they just get old and think “the right people STILL aren’t in charge”.
Even if McGovern had a friendly regulatory environment for his bed and breakfast, he would have failed. Like most liberals he lacks any sense of good judgement The man is a loser and I would not want him running any business of mine regardless of the regulatory environment.The only lectern this clown should be behind is the one provided for calling the numbers at the bingo game in his retirement community.
Even the old McGovern would have been more conservative than the likely 2012 Republican nominee.
I’m serious.
I’m also serious. You’re wrong.
” He was a traitorous POS socialist way back then...
Odds are he’s still a traitorous POS socialist now.
Old commies never die; they just get old and think “the right people STILL aren’t in charge”.
Inviting McGovern is an idea of the terminally STUPID.
” He was a traitorous POS socialist way back then...
Odds are he’s still a traitorous POS socialist now.
Old commies never die; they just get old and think “the right people STILL aren’t in charge”.
Inviting McGovern is an idea of the terminally STUPID.
Same guy who passionately pleaded that ‘”the greatest gift we could give VIet Nam was peace” and then two years later took to the Senate floor to call for the bombing of Cambodia after the destabilization accelerated by our withdrawl from the region. He’s just older and in worse health now with a grandson trying to adopt his surname for his own launch into politics...
Same guy who passionately pleaded that ‘”the greatest gift we could give VIet Nam was peace” and then two years later took to the Senate floor to call for the bombing of Cambodia after the destabilization accelerated by our withdrawl from the region. He’s just older and in worse health now with a grandson trying to adopt his surname for his own launch into politics...
Only a guy who either wasn't old enough to remember or wasn't mentally engaged enough at the time to remember would say such a thing ...
Oh but wait, aren't you the presidential "nominee" of the same third party that did so much to unseat Nixon in 1972?
Tom Hoefling for President 2012, July 27, 2012, For Immediate Release,Contact: tomhoefling@gmail.com Sacramento, CA - America's Party presidential nominee Tom Hoefling has accepted the invitation of the American Independent Party of California to participate in three debates with candidates vying for their 2012 presidential nomination.
Schmitz-Anderson 1972:
Seems that, much like like you, about the only claim to fame that Schmitz had (apart from the fact that he'd actually made it to Congressional elective office - unlike you) was that he spawned a few offspring (including his daughter, the famed convicted and jailed pedophile-ette, Mary Kay LaTourneau).
Schmitz ended his political career after 1972, and to the end of his life was reduced to a post-Congressional wilderness career as a kiosk operator in Union Station in DC.
The American Independent Party evidently didn't have much of a retirement plan for washed up nominees back then.
Maybe they'll take better care of washed up nominees this election cycle.
If you’re going to bash people, Aggie, get your facts straight. Schmitz was considered such a thorn from the right that Nixon (whose O.C. district he resided in) personally involved himself in aggressively getting behind a primary challenger to narrowly beat Schmitz (that party establishment challenger, btw, Andrew Hinshaw, turned out to be a crook). Schmitz only ran for President because of Nixon’s actions, otherwise he’d have been cruising to another term in Congress.
His career did not end in 1972. He returned to the California State Senate in 1979 (after having previously served almost 6 years there before his election to Congress) and served a 4-year term. Despite his unfortunate actions in his personal life, he was still buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Linky?
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