Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conduct a straw poll beauty pageant all the candidates except Sen. Gary W Hart (D-Colo) Hart was in New Hampshire with a busload of college-age volunteers. And while Walter F. Mondale. Sen John H Glenn (D-Ohio). Sen Alan M Cranston (D-Calif) and George S. McGovern hobnobbed with the Maine party establishment at a party sponsored cocktail party. Hart threw a party for his student workers at a Manchester ski lodge...
...reasons. His platform on a wide range of issues shows he is not content to take the facile route of traditional New Deal liberalism or to embrace the cynical neo-conservative backlash. Hart is, quite simply, too intelligent to embrace the well-meaning but unrealistic proposals of Mondale and McGovern. But, unlike Glenn, he does not believe that the Democrats should try to regain the White House by becoming milk toast Republicans. We also support Hart because he is now the only man who can send Reagan back to his ranch for good...
Hart is clearly the strongest candidate on defense issues. He is largely non-interventionist, but his desire to avoid military involvement does not stem from McGovern-like isolationist sentiment ("America come home"). In the Senate, Hart has been on the front line of legislators fighting for the production of less expensive, less sophisticated out more mobile weaponry. While advocating a defense increase of about four percent--the same as Mondale--Hart has argued his case in terms of what the money is spent on. Hart led a 1983 filibuster against the MX missile, opposed the B1 bomber...
...DEMOCRATIC Presidential nominee in 1972. George s. McGovern stood for active, compassionate government at home, thoughtful, non-interventionist policies abroad, and a Democratic Party committed to the needs of the underprivileged...
...candidate for the nomination, he still does, and that consistent, principled vision of America's future is itself one of the strongest reasons to vote for the former senator in tomorrow's primary. Since entering politics in the early 1950s. McGovern has been a forceful and articulate proponent of what is best in the liberal tradition of the Democratic Party, and he has not let the cynicism of the Reagan era sway him from those convictions. Amid a pack of hopefuls tripping over themselves in their eagerness to disassociate themselves from traditional Democratic concerns. McGovern has force fully reaffirmed...