Not like democrats today. He was at least honest and anyone who caused LBJ sleepless nights was a bit okay in my book. He took the arrows for that opportunist RFK who swept in to take the glory.
Finally! The end of McCarthyism, Hollyweird can breath a collective sigh of relief tonight.
Boy, he really was off the radar for many years, wasn't he? I probably am not the only one who didn't realize he was still alive. RIP.
Yes, he was decent and honest, but sadly mistaken. He was as much responsible as anyone for our abandoning Vietnam and leaving everyone there to be murdered in the millions by the Communists.
Not that I don't think getting rid of LBJ was a Very Good Thing.
Noted that Richard Pryor is running better than three to one for regrets against McCarthy & McCarthy has two threads running.
Summer 1968. An historic time.
I was 20, and saw McCarthy speak at the pier in Huntington Beach.
In the following months, Robert Kennedy would be murdered by a muslim, the Democrats would hold their convention in the midst of riots in Chicago, Humphrey would run against Nixon.
Nixon would win, and claim to have a secret plan to end the war. Dec. 1968 Johnson sent me an induction notice, and Jan. 28 1969 was inducted under Nixon.
What can happen in a few months.
The mindset of the rioters at the Chicago dem convention of 1968 is now the dominant force of the party.
Looking back, McCarthy and later McGovern were principled class acts, compared to the shallow, idiotic potty mouth pukes of this day.
Richard Pryor was funnier.
I hope that he enjoys burning in Hell for the crimes he committed against his country.
RIP senator McCarthy
Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., is shown in this March 12, 1968 file photo as he talks to campaign workers and the press at his Bedford, N.H. campaign headquarters. McCarthy, 89. died in his sleep Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 in Washington. (AP Photo/ File)
Shook his hand in a reception line at the Keene, NH American Legion post in late January 1968. I was the same hard-rightist then as I am now but my GF in college at the time was a JulietAlfaPapa from W. Roxbury who despised LBJ as much as me and thought that "Gene" would bring the Dem party back to its "progressive roots."
RIP and the less said, the better.
Instead of giving people a chance to earn a living, McCarthy said, the Great Society "became affirmative action and more welfare. It was an admission the New Deal had failed or fallen."How profound!
May he rest in Peace. I worked in his California primary campaign. Like is posted elsewhere. RFK came in and stole Gene's thunder and won the California primary, but RFK was shot to death that night in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel.
He was a quiet, witty, intellect. Old school democrat, probably not a lot different that Joe Lieberman is today except Gene wanted us out of Vietnam.
And I outgrew the leftist ideology like many others and today stand a FREEPER. But I think there was something nobler about many politicians in those days who fought for principle rather than what the latest focus group or poll is saying.
God Rest your soul Eugene McCarthy.