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McGovern & Goldwater: Losers or Winners?

christiancon Wrote: Oct 26, 2012 7:43 PM

That is the best history of left and right as they exist today. Since McGovern's death there has been much revisionist thoughts about all this-as though McGovern because he was a WW2 vet and hero was somehow an old fashoined lib. Nothing could be further from the truth. The old SDS'ers split off into the Tom Hayden and Bill Ayers version of new leftism- and sure enough (in my view) we got the Hayden presidency of Clinton and the Ayers presidency of Ayers. And ol George was the igniter of that fire.

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McGovern & Goldwater: Losers or Winners?

Early in Ronald Reagan's second term, Bill Rusher, the publisher of National Review, was interviewing the president in the Oval Office for a documentary on the conservative movement.

Rusher asked how he would describe Barry Goldwater's role.

Reagan thought a moment and replied: I guess you would have to call him the John the Baptist of our movement.

I resisted the impulse to lean in and ask, "Sir, if Barry Goldwater was John the Baptist, who would that make you?"

The death of George McGovern brought back thoughts of these two men who suffered two of the greatest defeats in presidential...

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