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...called my parents early that Wednesday morning and told them I wanted to die. My father was matter-of-fact: “I was your age when McGovern lost so badly.” He said: “It’s good to have your heart broken early...
...stood up and made stump speeches about the disastrous regime in power, its moral bankruptcy and arrogance. Now, on election eve, I face up to the fact that one man will lose and limp away to join the ranks of noble losers (Eugene V. Debs, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern) while the other one grins and waves and elementary schools are named after him. So what happens next? The winners smirk and gloat, of course, but what do the losers...
...Iraq would. The former Vermont Governor opposed the war from the start, and his rationale was as simple as Kerry's was convoluted: Saddam was not a threat. Of course, Dean would have had other general-election vulnerabilities. Republicans would have branded him the second coming of peacenik George McGovern. But Dean could have retorted that he (unlike Kerry) backed the first Gulf War. They would have ridiculed his lack of foreign policy experience. But there's an advantage to not having 20 years of Senate votes to defend, as Kerry has learned. (That's part of the reason Governors...
...last NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 36 percent of Americans understand what John Kerry would do as president, professional Democrats must regret having spent the last four years doing little more than hating George W. Bush. To win, the party of Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton (and George McGovern and Walter Mondale) must do more than learn from its past, and more than emulate the Republicans’ sharp elbows. Democrats must finally build for the future...
...detailed account of the McGovern-Nixon race, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72, Hunter S. Thompson wrote that the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami was “shaping up very fast these days as one of the most brutal and degrading animal acts of our time...