Former presidential candidate trashes Bush and Nixon
George McGovern, former senator and famous presidential loser, graced Cornell University with his presence April 11 to deliver a speech entitled “Ending Hunger in Our Time.” McGovern’s audience was approximately half liberal students fostering save-the-world fantasies with the other half being the gray-haired remnants of the ‘60s radicals waxing nostalgic about their glory days of promiscuous sex, draft-dodging, and acid trips.
While McGovern’s speech was supposed to be about world hunger, he frequently drifted into the waters of US politics and proudly displayed the liberal credentials that made him the idol of the unwashed protestors and violent radicals who hated America and her values in the Vietnam era. McGovern acknowledged he “didn’t have the most votes” in his presidential campaign against Richard Nixon in 1972, “but we had the best ones.” Not only did he not have the most votes, he lost every single state in the Union, save Massachusetts. His only other tally in the win column was the District of Columbia.
Nor did McGovern have the “best” votes. Massachusetts is a den of liberalism where even Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy can be reelected every year despite killing a girl; where two men, two women, or a man, a goat and three ferrets can enter into Holy Matrimony; where being tough on crime is Michael Dukakis letting convicted rapists out of jail for weekend holidays. Washington D.C., of course, is one of the most awful places on earth where the mayor was a ho-banging cokehead; where congressmen sell their souls for reelection; where every hard-working American’s money goes to be thrown into the giant fire pit that is the federal government.
McGovern’s campaign platform was famously derided as, “acid, amnesty, and abortion.” Maybe Democrats no longer publicly support legalizing LSD, but the rest stands pretty firm as Party doctrine. As McGovern’s speech at Cornell showed, the silver-haired fogies in the Democratic Party today are the same hippies and radicals of yesteryear.
Their party’s nominee in 2004, John Kerry, served in Vietnam, but upon returning he joined the anti-American protestors, showed contempt for his country by throwing away his war medals, and slandered his fellow American troops by alleging they had committed war crimes. The Democratic Party of 1972 was not the anti-war party—they were the anti-troops party. Richard Nixon was also for peace Vietnam, but he supported America’s men in uniform and wanted victory rather than surrender to Hanoi. McGovern had said that if elected he would remove all US support from South Vietnam and immediately halt the bombing of North Vietnam. Syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft characterized McGovern’s position on Vietnam: “Apparently without knowing it, he is prepared to accept worse terms than the other side is offering.”
Liberal activists during the 1960s hated America and actively sought its defeat. Student protestors waved North Vietnamese flags at their rallies, and when current New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was asked by his father, “If an American soldier runs into a North Vietnamese soldier, which would you like to see get shot?” Arthur responded, “I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country”
Not only was McGovern wrong in1972, he has apparently learned nothing in the past 35 years. He claimed in his speech that there were no catastrophes after we left Vietnam, attempting to draw a parallel to argue for speedy withdrawal from Iraq. What McGovern did not remember was the millions of anti-communist Vietnamese who had sided with the US that were killed or forced to live under the evil and immoral system of communism. He also must have washed away the image of an American helicopter leaving Saigon with South Vietnamese trying to board the craft and escape oppression.
After finally discussing the issue of global hunger, McGovern answered a few questions from the audience. Naturally, the questions were asked by an assortment of aging hippies, androgynous weirdoes, and stoned college kids. As follows, most of the subject matter related to George W. Bush, how evil he is, and how we should get out of Iraq.
In response to a question about Afghanistan, McGovern claimed, “The [Bush] administration ridicules those who ask ‘Why do they hate us?’” but wondered, “Why was it the World Trade Center that got hit rather than Parliament in London?” Perhaps McGovern has been in a coma for the past six years. Radical Muslim savages have bombed trains in Spain, the Metro in London, and have created general havoc in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. It is worthwhile to understand why the terrorists attacked us, but it is equally important to realize that September 11 was not an isolated event. Barbaric Muslims have spread murder and destruction throughout the world, not only in America.
When a frustrated audience member asked McGovern why Bush had not been impeached yet, he responded that it won’t happen because there isn’t enough grassroots support for the effort. However, McGovern did believe “Richard Nixon was impeached for offenses for less than those of Bush and Cheney.” This statement is wrong on several counts. First, Nixon resigned before he was ever impeached. Second, Nixon’s offenses were mild political snafus that paled in comparison to the black-bag jobs committed by his Democratic predecessors in the White House.
While there is no evidence Nixon had any knowledge of the Watergate burglary beforehand, former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt (who was convicted for his Watergate involvement) testified in front of a congressional committee that Lyndon Johnson had ordered federal agents to spy on Barry Goldwater’s campaign headquarters in 1964. Goldwater’s campaign plane was wiretapped by the FBI and spies were sent to infiltrate his campaign organization and provide key information to LBJ’s White House. The reason Nixon was forced to resign for his staff’s mistake while LBJ was not run out of office for his far greater abuse of executive power is because LBJ was a hero to the liberal media while Richard Nixon was the bogeyman whom they loathed with hellfire passion.
Richard Nixon was a man hounded out of office by rabid liberals who smelled blood and rode a minute political scandal all the way to his resignation. Compared to Democratic administrations before and after Nixon, Watergate was almost a non-incident.
Despite the claims of McGovern and the existing stereotype concocted by the liberal media, Nixon was a good, if flawed, man and a strong president who brought America peace with honor in Vietnam (before the Democratic Congress cut off aid to South Vietnam and let it be conquered by the North).
In a time when many Republicans are looking for the next Reagan, this author is looking for the next Nixon—the next man who will call out over-privileged anti-war college protestors as “bums” who are “blowing up the campuses”; whose vice president will say of the America-hating radicals, “I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans, I saw in Vietnam,”as did Spiro Agnew;who will get America out of an unpopular war while maintaining our dignity; and who will reinvigorate the Silent Majority, “the forgotten Americans, those who did not indulge in violence, those who did not break the law, people who pay their taxes...people who love this country.”
In this time of trial in our nation we need a leader strong enough to stand up to America’s enemies both foreign and domestic. If there is one lesson to take from George McGovern, it’s that we need President Nixon, now more than ever.