[socal_parrot]

bye.

[Tax-chick]

Rest in peace, Gene.

[Pusterfuss]

I hate to admit it, but I voted for Gene.

[Jeff Chandler]

First Pryor, and now McCarthy. They both made me laugh.

[Pharmboy]

He had a long run. RIP.

[RobbyS]

Met him once. Found him disappointing. Didn't strike me as a serious politician. Not until Bobby was killed did he seem to realize that we live in a dark world.

[PJ-Comix]

Sorry to hear this. Although I disagree with him on some things, I do recognize that he was a REAL maverick. A lot of McCarthy's views of late were anathema to most of the Democrat party of today.

RIP Eugene McCarthy.

[EveningStar]

ping

[SuperSonic]

[lindor]

I didn't agree with his politics, but he was a man of principle and he had a fine military record. If I'm not mistaken he was a pilot during the second world war.

God speed.

[Siena Dreaming]

Not a nice man.

[rcocean]

RIP.

Struck me as a smarter George McGovern.

Misguided - but well intentioned.

[Bean Counter]

And another Liberal Icon assumes room temperature...

[Jim Noble]

My first campaign. I learned an awful lot.

And I will never regret turning out LBJ.

RIP, Gene.

[x]

McCarthy was an admirable guy and an American original, or perhaps a survival of an older America. As one who came of age in the 1930s, he wasn't much of a fan of capitalism as an ideal, but he also didn't lose much love on government and bureaucracy.

He was something of an agrarian localist with roots in Old World Catholicism and Middle Western Populism. At the same time, his education led him to represent the best, rather than the worst of those tendencies.

When McCarthy came to Washington he had a rather cavalier attitude towards markets and corporations. It was a result of his academic and idealistic background. But as time went on and he saw how government worked -- and didn't work -- he became very skeptical about government programs.

Gene was a strange candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1968. Those days were the highwater mark of Democrats celebration and promotion of big government, but McCarthy didn't have the programatic and "progressivist" attitude of so many in his party and questioned the value of big government and large scale planning.

[Congressman Billybob]

He was my friend, and client. My first Supreme Court win was on behalf of Gene in 1976, getting an emergency order forcing McCarthy's name on the Texas ballot for President in that year. Whatever my agreement or disagreement with his various political views, I never doubted that he was an honest man who put his life on the line for his beliefs.

R.I.P., Eugene J. McCarthy.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Ben Franklin's Greatest Invention"

[Dog Gone]

I met him once during law school and he was very gracious during the few minutes we were together. That probably was because I didn't tell him what I thought of his politics and he didn't tell me what he thought of my haircut.

[OldPossum]

I guess that I'm supposed to say that I regret his passing, but I don't feel that way. This man, with his opposition to a war that whether you agreed with it or or was well underway and protests by the like of McCarthy only made it possible for our good men and women in uniform to face a fortified enemy. Many of them (58,000) died.

No, I'm not sorry and I will feel the same way about the eventual passing of Jane Fonda, John Kerry, George McGovern, and others in their camp. I do, on the other hand, regret the suffering that their passing imposes on their loved ones.

[cynicom]

He did his duty in WW2 but was a loser since that time, rest in socialist peace.

[ncountylee]

The nicest thing I can say is RIP, Gene.