Posted on 12/10/2005 1:09:46 PM PST by EveningStar
I heard both McCarthy and Kennedy speak the week that Kennedy was killed, Bobby was more impressive.
He endorsed John Kerry last year.
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I was raised a Democrat, but my first vote at 19 was for Nixon. I knew at that tender age that Mc Govern was a commie. I had no illusions about Jane Fonda, Mc Carthy, Humphrey, and the usual suspects. I have never, not even once in a local election, voted Democrat because of that era of politics. Even today there are people that can't see the PERMANENT harm these people and their ideas have done to this country.
These "so called" peacemakers have more blood on their hands than anyone can fathom and I know that if there is a just God, they will answer for it.
I'm just not a live and let live type person. Words and actions have consequences.
And he wound up supporting Reagan.
ReAlly. I didn't know that.
Gene was a Johnnie.
At the time McCarthy said that Reagan had a "better perception" of the office of President than did GA Jimmy.
No mo tired talk of "MakKarthism"? One can hope!
I was too young to vote for him, but I worked for his campaign. I was in high school and I collected signatures for him in the neighborhood.
Yes, it was McGovern I was thinking of. Thanks for setting me straight.
Thanks for the link. I learn something new everyday.
"Words and actions have consequences."
Thou hast said it.
I checked the record and found that Mrs. Abigail Quigley McCarthy, who was also active in the 1968 campaign, was divorced from McCarthy and died perhaps 15 years ago.
While one source said that McCarthy endorsed Libertarian Ed Clark in the 1980 presidential campaign, I distinctly remember him saying on television that he was voting for Reagan because Reagan had a "better perception" (more realistic, perhaps?) conception of the presidential office than did GA's Jimmy Carter. Perhaps he first "endorsed" Clark and then said he would vote for Reagan.
Apropos of nothing...Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy Dies at 89"I admired Gene enormously for his courage in challenging a war America never should have fought," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said Saturday. "His life speaks volumes to us today, as we face a similar critical time for our country."
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Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005
Gandalf: Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?I voted for Eugene McCarthy in 1976. My roommate voted for Ford. He asked me, "how does it feel to waste your vote?" "You tell me," was my response.
McCarthy was all over the map in terms of party affiliation, but his positions weren't wholly inconsistent. McCarthy thought Carter was horrible and cultivated the Libertarians in 1980 before eventually endorsing Reagan. But it's pretty clear that he wasn't going to stay with RWR. He did make his way back to the Democrats, but everyone from Lyndon Larouche to Lenore Fulani to the actor who played Billy Jack ran in the 1992 Democratic primaries, so there was certainly room for McCarthy.
McCarthy's original career was as a professor, and he ended up as a writer. Both were closer to his true calling than politics. He was a very intelligent man, but not a team player. That's not a problem in writers or professors, but it's deadly in electoral politics.
McCarthy had too keen a sense of rivalry. He thought he was smarter than other politicians, yet doomed not to be as successful as they were, so there was a growing resentment and prickliness in his personality. He was largely right in his assessment of the politicians he ran against. But he couldn't translate that purely intellectual cleverness into success in practical politics.
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