I am truly amazed so many of you have it right, some faith is restored..

Charles may I share and quote you..

"A great husband and father, war hero, an honest politician, a man who put country above party, a GREAT AMERICAN. We need more like him. Rest in peach George. You did well."

GODSPEED George! I'll always remember You!

I'm glad that Marxist Died.

F6Zman - I see it didn't take long for you to show your idiocy. Unlike you, Sen McGovern really did love his country and especially the people that inhabit it. Hopefully when you pass on , no one will notice.

Thank you Senator McGovern.

Your service to family and country will always be appreciated.

Condolences to family and friends.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Road Warrior-1005773

Thank you for the political commentary. However, can't we put politics aside for even 1 minute and give our RESPECT to the family? Shaking head.

Whether we agreed or disagreed with your policies, RIP Gov McGovern and thank you for your service to your country.

These idiot right wingers even post anti crap in the cooking seed so you are never ever going to stop them cause they get paid for spewing their idiotic right wing crap. Everyone in the world knows we would all be better off had the US been smart enought to elect him over Nixon who was as bad as it gets

McGovern collected a pay check being (playing) a politician. He was to politics what Muhammad Ali is to boxing.

George McGovern was an honest man. I realize a quote *Conservative* unquote wouldn't understand that. There is no dirt you can dig up, so something must be manufactured to cause discredit. Shame on you, and shame on anyone that does likewise.

Count me as one that voted for McGovern in '72. I'm still trying to figure out how Nixon won that one.

And to the McGovern family: I share your grief. Heartfelt condolences and sympathy to you.

n.n. why did he lose? It is fairly simple...Dirty Tricks by the opposing candidates team known by the acryonym C.R.E.E.P. (Yes that was really what the Nixon team was called, by themselves) played a large part. The Eagleton thing did not help either.

Mc Govern is from a time when Politicians did not vent poisonous lies ...there was some civility. This country misses that.

Thank you Mr. McGovern for all your service, I was not a supporter (And could not vote then so I was doing was parroting my parents preferences) but may you rest in peace and condolences to your family.

He should have been POTUS. Maybe we wouldn't be in this hole today. Dems. and LBJ. Social Security down the tubes.

Don't let F6Zman troll you. He was that little kid in school who did nothing but throw tantrums and wet his pants. :)

RIP :(

Rest in peace Senator...your work is done and you did it very well.

Yup to the little trolls like F6Z and Roadwarrior. The man was a distinguished United States military combat veteran. He flew over 35 bombing missions as a squadron commander in Europe in WWII. He won the distinguished flying cross and various other medals for bravery and heroism, credited with landing shot up planes with half dead shot up crews. He kept his honorable service quiet and never bragged about it. Nixon's speechwriter, Pat Buchannan who hails from the draft dodger republican bent of Bush/Cheney decided to go viral and paint McGovern as a pinko liberal commie who was soft on the military. It worked. I believed the hype too and was astonished to learn the trufh about this courageous man's military record 35 years later. Roadwarrior and F6Z, what'd you guys do for America

Charlie-1915998:

A great husband and father, war hero, an honest politician, a mam who put country above party, a GREAT AMERICAN. We need more like him. Rest in peach George. You did well.

That was NOT George McGovern. He was all about EGO.

RIP Mr. McGovern. While I didn't subscribe to his ideals, I respect his right to them. He sought to change the face of American politics and he did. Whether that is for the better depends largely on your point of view. He was, like most who have came after him, polarizing and divisive.

As to the "war hero" comments, I think if you ask any who served they will tell you that term is reserved for those who were awarded the Medal of Honor. My father flew 41 bomb missions in WWII with the 8th Army Air force. He served from 1939 to 1972. He always replied to being call a hero with, "No, I am not, I did the job I was assigned, nothing more. Hero's are the ones with the Medal and most of those were awarded posthumously". While my father and Mr. McGovern were awarded various citations, the MoH was not among them.

Like my father I too served many years in the U.S. Army, and my thanks during the 60's and 70's was to be called names and have garbage thrown on me when I came home. Which infuriated my father and was the source of his only arrest in life. He put a down home style beating on some long hair at the airport for calling me a baby killer and throwing crap. Those who were doing this were also those who supported Mr. McGovern's ideals. While I do not subscribe these acts to any beyond those doing it. It left a lasting impression on me and what my idea of my fellow Americans ideals. So you'll forgive me if I seem incredulous. And please, spare me any belated thank you's for my service, it will ring hollow to me. I did what I was raised a citizen does, nothing more.

If you actually want to do something to help, donate or volunteer at a Vet center. With at least 250,000 homeless Vietnam Vets in our nation and many from the wars that came after you can prove you care and do something. Instead of parroting lesser politicians, think outside the box and actually get involved. Actions speak louder than words.

Roadwarrior and F6Z, what'd you guys do for America

Freedomman,

What have you done since running off to Canada? While you and others were taking LSD and protesting, I was busy hitting the books so I wouldn’t be one of the 47%.

Too bad he didn't become president. I think he would have been one of the better ones. Maybe much better.

why did he lose? It is fairly simple...Dirty Tricks

Frankly,

Dirty tricks in 49 states? Hell, McGovern couldn't even win his own state. Massachusetts was his only win.

Nixon's speechwriter, Pat Buchannan who hails from the draft dodger republican bent of Bush/Cheney decided to go viral and paint McGovern as a pinko liberal commie who was soft on the military. It worked. I believed the hype too and was astonished to learn the trufh about this courageous man's military record 35 years later.

Clinton dodged the draft and liberals had no problems with it. So ever since draft dodger Bill Clinton - seen in the slide show - was elected president and beat WWII Navy pilot George HW Bush, liberal Democrats have NO BUSINESS making comments about whether Republicans served or not. And that goes for the current president who never served either (and who doesn't even know how to pronounce "corpsman" correctly (http://voices.yahoo.com/obama-calls-navy-corpsman-corpse-man-5421229.html).

With that said, McGovern stood for what he believed in and wasn't apologetic about it. He was a far left liberal and ran on a far left platform that many Democrats were not a part of, and obviously the vast majority of Americans - especially those in his OWN STATE (ring familiar there Al Gore??). McGovern was his own worst enemy. So stop with your radical left wing typical history revisionist rape and plunder.

But ironically the Democrat party has come full circle back to a far left agenda. I find it ironic that in that slide show there's a picture with a food stamp chart in the back ground. Why is that ironic? Because under Obama, the most Americans in history are on food stamps and other government assistance. But hey, Nancy Pelosi tells us that unemployment checks create jobs (she really said that), so that's the modern Democrat party coming full circle from the McGovern days.

And well said Nicodemus!

Clinton dodged the draft and liberals had no problems with it.

Hey Liar, maybe you should stop lying. :)

LINK: http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/felon.asp

road warrior when you say hitting the books do you really mean if i stay in school i won't have to move to canada to stay out of the nam

RIP Senator George McGovern You will be missed. My condolences go out to you FAMILY! God Bless

Nicodemus1946 -

Thanks for your post. Everything you said rings true and I agree with you. Whether or not you agreed with the (or any) man's position on an issue, he had a right to it. I have often heard it said the heros were the ones who didn't make it back.

The treatment of veterans by this country is a shame. One that cuts deep and may never heal. They answered our's country's calll and paid the price. We as a country owe them a lot more than what is happening now. I took your suggestion and went on line to the VA center here in Phoenix and signed up. Maybe your suggestion will get others to do the same.

AtomAnt--Bologna. Vets, are treated well today. Any other position is a lie. Yes, i'm a vet.

To the Friends and Family, my deepest condolences upon your loss. Saying farewell to one you love is one of the most difficult things we face in life. May you move forward in peace, look to memory with grace, and support each other in love as you grieve.

To those who feel is necessary to always demonize those who think/believe differently than yourself, it is not your beliefs that are the problem, it is your absolutism, your inability to grasp a wider picture, your fearful, egocentric loathing of "different" that is our problem. Generally, none of us are all good or all bad. Even those with exceptional character have their foibles, their weaknesses, and none are a paragon of perfection. Just once, attempt to recognize the good in your fellow man, even while you disagree on other points. You'll feel better for it, so will those around you and possibly even the world will be just a bit better off for it.

A Great American died today. I worked on your campaign in 1972 and I thank you for all the service to your country. I am so very sad, you were someone I always believed in. History has vindicated your belief in the fact that the Vietnam war should have been ended sooner. My deepest sympathies to your family.

RIP Senator McGovern you were a good and honorable man and a credit to the state of South Dakota. For the haters please put your hate aside for one day and pay your respects for a man who worked dilegently for the poor and hungry, his family and his last wishes for him is to help the poor and hungry. Please look past your hate and see that he was a good person and just for one day forget politics. Again RIP Mr. McGovern and God be with your family and friends at this time of sorrow South Dakota has lost a good man.

A really good and honest man who really cared about 100% of the people. His was the first Presidential campaign I got really active in...and the poor guy lost big-time to the 2nd worst guy ever to run for President. The only bad thing about Democracy is that we let all those idiots vote.(j/k). He had a good long run and could be proud of what he did every moment of his long life. I know no one that talks bad about him.

THE worst is representing republicans this year.

Clinton dodged the draft and liberals had no problems with it.

So did Rush the junkie Limbaugh, Dick chicken-hawk Cheney and George W spoiled brat Bush and right wing gasbags have no problem with that. The reality is George McGovern did more for this nation in one day of his life than most of you right wing clowns will ever do.

Good old 1000% George- he fought for peace alright, on the backs of the Vietnam dead. It was due to him and people like Frank Church that the war lasted so long. Hey kids, can we say "seditionist" ?

I always thought it was interesting that when elected he had about $30,000 , was making $50,000 a year as senator, and 4 years later was worth over a million! What a country. What a schmuck.

It was due to him and people like Frank Church that the war lasted so long.

BS. That war could have ended in 1968 but Nixon sabotaged the peace talks for political reasons. Recent document dumps as well as taped conversations between LBJ and Republican Senator Derkson prove it. We could have had the same settlement in late 1968 that Nixon got in 1973. Thanks to Nixon, tens of thousands of Americans needlessly died. Nixon should have been charged with treason.

RIP

and let me just say 'Watergate' kept him out of the white house.

Vote Democrat, a Republican cannot be trusted for anything.

He served our country with honor in Wartime

He served our country with honor in Peacetime...

He was a man with integrity, compassion, conviction and rightousness that will probably never be seen in our country's service again.

RIP - George --- You were a Hero that strove to make the world a better place...

He lost the Presidential Election in a landslide. But within 2 years of the defeat, Spiro T. Agnew was under indictment for extortion, for his actions as the Governor of Maryland, and Nixon was deeply embroiled in the Watergate scandal, which would soon bring down his presidency.

What a pair the U.S. chose in 1972.

McGovern, was a honest, decent politician, who had the courage of his own convictions. But despite years in the Senate, he was not quite prepared for a national campaign.

I remember him well, and I note his passing with some sadness, not because it is tragic when a 90-year-old man dies, but because it signals the passing of the Vietnam War era into history.

Every time the country picks the bully and the greedy to run the country, we wind up in deep yogurt. This election is just another test for the country. Will they pick the greedy and immoral as they did with Bush/Cheney and now Romney/Ryan or will they stick with Obama? If the voters go for the bully who will destroy the working class for the personal greed of the few as they did with Bush and with the same Bush advisors, by the way, it will be the voters who did in their own country again. Rome was not built in a day and Rome did not last due to greed and bad management just as we have experienced with the right wing in our country. Are we going to self destruct as all other civilizations have done?

Charlie- it wasn't the GOP that was protesting the war for the most part.

All the "educated" people in the U.S. seem to forget that the people they were trying to "protect" were ignorant farmers or ideology-inculcated Communists. Seeing somebody like good old George or Frank Church, or Jane Fonda come out for "peace" just gave them more impetus to keep up the fight.

Also, remember it was Nixon who got the NVA to the table by bombing Haiphong and Hanoi - even those were tightly controlled attacks on bridges and infrastructure. We didn't want to hurt any of the Russian ships that were supplying aid to the NVA.

It's the constant liberal concern for the enemy rather than our own troops that is irritating. It was itrritating when I was there, and it still is. The anti-war effort was seditionism, pure and simple, and got a lot of our people killed, almost me too, included.

AMEN... RIP:(

Why did they transfer him into a hospice ? could he not die at home ? surely they could afford home care and O2.......hospices are for people who have no place to die. People prefer to die in their home, with their personal stuff ; pets, family saying farewell, in their natural setting. I would prefer to die under a tree myself, than in a bed with people around bugging me. Our current situation would have likely been much better had he won instead of that crook Nixon. Things went downhill after that insane guy became president. What a disgrace.....

he was truly one of the great ones may god bless

To Daniel Calc, those were my thoughts exactly, how different our country might have been if George had won. No Watergate, ending the Viet Nam was quickly. One can only say, George, we were lucky to have you and may your eternal journey be fitting of the fine man you were. RIP

post #11.3 is the reason this country is divided. Very low information voters who have no clue of what they're talking about other than the hate that spews from their mouths. And fyi, Agent Orange was self inflicted and totally unnecessary. Blame the D.O.D. for that one. Do some research if you're capable of it.

I moved to DC in '72 and voting for George McGovern was my first election. I stayed up all night waiting for him to turn the tide. Very few of my choices have won over the years but I keep voting. And I still remain hopeful that the good guys will eventually win out. RIP, George and thanks for teaching a kid the sometimes sad reality of the electoral process.

Hey Toyrslfbtrue, Me too. He was the first statesman that stir my soul to become involved..May peace follow him and his family knowing how many people he touch and made a difference.

Rest in Peace Sen. McGovern. You deserve to rest for all the good work you did for our country and for the world. Fighting hunger in our nation was and still is a noble act.

"Don't blame me, I voted for McGovern!"

I proudly voted for McGovern. He was the hope and progress America could have had, Instead we got a paranoid, scoundrel, who tried to over take our government. George McGovern was ahead of his time. He was a visionary, who knew it is better, to keep everyone moving, in the same direction, FORWARD! I wonder what our country would have like, had Senator McGovern beat Nixon?

Rest in peace Senator McGovern. You deserve the open arms of God and the Peace of heaven. And say hello to Josephine Ferraro!

If George McGovern had been elected we'd have already been singing the Chinese or Soviet natonal anthem.

Well Star, because of great Americans like him, we aren't singing the German or Japanese national anthem

I would like to correct my previous post. The nominee for vice president was Geraldine Ferraro. My apologies to the first women to be nominated to the position of VP. As for Nixon and his secret police, The White House Plumbers, we would be saying, Hail McCain. Remember "Bomb, bomb, bomb?"

Nixon was a poor man's Romney!

Well freedomman, George McGovern's service in WWII had nothing to do with liberalism but liberalism has everything to do with our $16 trillion national debt and the near collapse, as it now stands, of our American way of life.

Actually, TheStar, you might want to actually take a look at facts, instead of just reading off talking points. One of the biggest reasons for our debt are the military actions that Bush started while he also kicked in tax cuts. Folks on the right can lie all they want about the debt, but the fact is that the biggest contributor to the current debt is the right, not so-called liberalism. Lying repeatedly does not make it fact, regardless of what certain mid-20th century European figures might have you believe.

Left wing:

You forgot to mention Reagan's deregulation and over-ruling the Air Traffic Controller's Union. Not to mention the Iran-contra affair. Proud to be standing on the left with you.

Left Wing Nut Job, yup it fits. The extreme left is the master of lies. If lying repeatedly doesn't make what you say the truth Nut Job then why do you continue your endless stream of lies?

with liberalism but liberalism has everything to do with our $16 trillion national debt

You seem to forget the money Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 contributed to that debt. You seem to forget that George W. Bush and his Republican Congress turned the largest surplus of all times into the largest deficit of all times and didn't bother to include most of costs of 2 wars in their calculations. You seem to forget is that BOTH liberals and CONSERVATIVES have contributed to the national debt.

Hey Eddie: He probably wouldn't recognize either party with all the mud slinging going on - in fact, he probably would not want to remain on this planet a minute longer than he had to as the country is going down a sink hole - no not because of the liberal democrats - more the responsibility of the Flip Flop party. A true American who fought for our country but opposed the war in Vietnam and is now smiling down on us from Heaven thanking God that Obama is ending the Afghanistan War and bringing the troops home before any more lives are lost - yep, I am playing the blame game, but my intention is only pointing out the obvious - that is republicans have blocked just about everything President Obama and the democrats want to pass. If I was running for office, I would rather run for the hills and live peacefully in a foreign country like Ireland is now that peace has been restored between the North and South - gee whiz, the Irish have even adopted the euro for their currency. And the green rolling hills are a sight to behold and the genorosity of the Irish people along with their sense of humor and love for all is an example of what it used to be like in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's in the US. And, just watch the Celtic Woman making of the "Believe concert" to discover why Ireland is one of the most wonderful countries in the world - why because according to Lisa Kelly in the video making of the Believe Concert - women are the head of the household in Ireland and they are strong, independent women who work independently but when they come together they experience joy that can only happen among women". Mitt and his sidekick Tonto - Ryan - hanging on the tails of the Lone Ranger - Mitsey Flip Flop and their lack of support for women's rights in our so called land of the free and brave. Romney/Ryan should take lessons on women from Lisa Kelly, Lisa Lambe, Mariead and Chloe what it means to be a woman and especially how they want to be treated as equals in all that they do. -

@eddie

You really need to start paying attention. The very last troops have now left Iraq. Stop listening to Fox and actually do some research and READ A BOOK for God's sake.

The average, weak-minded republitard will never grasp the complexities of foreign policy, as Obama will prove in the last debate with Flopney on Monday.

agree with you Eddie, the rest of you live in a dream world! Obama does nothing right

Both parties are little unrecognizable from the 1970s going backwards. Although I think the Republican Party has the most deviation. Could Nixon be a Republican today? Probably not. McGovern might be a Green Party member. Of course we might be forgetting that the dominant two Parties, Republican and Democrat, reflect the people they represent in today's society. So maybe the masses have changed and here's the Parties to represent the interesting view points.

Yay Dennis Price! When will these people who watch Fox get it right. That station is owned by an Australian who wants to change the political scene of the United States of America to suit him. Those so-called pundits are not allowed to say certain things and must say certain words. It just is beyond belief that anyone would base their politics on a station that is so un-American. Try watching and paying attention to some of the U.S. stations and get the news right for a change. And you're right, Mr. Price, do some research, read a book , watch the history channel. Geez...

@sobelle

Anytime somebody says:

Obama could bring the troops home from Afghanistan tomorrow

I know that we're dealing with someone who has a grade school concept of war and do not have even the most remote idea of how easy it is to get into one and how difficult it can be getting out of it.

eddie, we just can't pick up all our marbles and go home. It's a logistical nightmare. You really do need to educate yourself, you're an embarrassment.

I don't think President Eisenhowr would recognize the modern-day GOP either. The Tea Party types would have booted him out by now as a tax and spend liberal, even though the infrastructure investment made during the 50's has left us with a modern-day Interstate system, power grid, traffic control system, hydro electric dam system bringing agriculture and affordable power to those of us in the Pacific Northwest.

Ike isn't even MENTIONED by the fascist right. In the eyes of what used to be the gop, a B-Movie actor and maker of propaganda war films and shorts who built up the largest military and deficits in peacetime, let milions illegals have amnesty no questions asked, raised taxes on the MIDDLE CLASS 7 times, the S&L collapse, Oliver North, the Iran-Contra Affair which by all rights was grounds for impeachment, Alexander Haig, James Schlessinger, worshiping the graves of Waffen-SS soldiers and made leaders in Israel so angry, he had to compensate for it by making a visit to Buchenwald CC, 300 marines attacked in their sleep in Lebanon, a pointless attack on Grenada, lied about Panama and how "we bought it, we built it, we OWN it and we're NOT giving it up!!", the main reason why we're still "light years behind with alternative, renewable energy and after over 30 years of failed supply side economics, the USA is paying the price now and oh are we paying the price......I could go on but THIS is what the fascist right calls a "Great President and politician". I never ONCE danced on his grave or called him evil names in life or in death. I truly did not like his politics and economics. Their standards have went downhill ever since.
Ronnie Raygun: "Great Manipulator" I called him and I was 17 at the time but saw through his rhetoric that had no basis in fact and thank you for making a "proud, liberal Democrat" for LIFE!!! Now time to "Get to Work" and be the party of Kennedy who was PROUD to be a "liberal" , RAN ON IT and WON!!!! Thank you Senator McGovern for not compromising on YOUR LIBERAL principals either, in politics and in LIFE like the late Teddy Kennedy who "was the lion of the Senate". Served unselfishly and with honour. Salute!!!!!

Obama could bring the troops home from Afghanistan tomorrow, and he's still got 30,000 in Iraq

Moron do some research those tropps are there because of the deal brokered by George Bush who signed the agreement when he brokered the withdrawal.... Man do they have their surrogates brainwashed or what!

Afghanistan is Obama's war he made it his war with the escalation in troops and money,,the number of troops killed has skyrocket under him!!. He promised the troops would be home in 6 months in 2008!!!

Kennedy started Vietnam, LBJ made it his by doing what BOZOhussen has followed--he said "I will never send any American boy to bleed and die in a rice paddy"...that is why he is remembered as LyingBastr.dJohnson..mcGovern was his lap dog, just like Pelosi&Reid are obamas!!

Hey Joe

Kennedy didn't start Viet Nam. Don't you people read?

The United States entered that war incrementally, in a series of steps between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/causes.htm

OK Mr Know-it-All, there you go. Please learn to research and READ.

People like you are such a disappointment.

Me to and I voted democrat after that time since then.

Mcgovern was a good man, he wanted to end viet nam. which is why he lost against nixon. republicans called him a socialist too. rip george. you are a good soul.

Same here. I took a side trip and voted for Anderson, but never Republican.

Though he never became president, he is deserving of that respect. He was obviously the better man. We should stand now and salute. He served his country well. There is a hero going by.

We already heard your take twice, so now you can go away.

Are you afraid I might make some people think they're getting sold out by the phony democrats?

The liberal democrats are a herd of pigs.

It's not the Democrats that are phonies, They're for the people, unlike the Republicans, they're only for a select few.

We need more like him, who stood up for what's right and whats wrong. My he rest in peace.

Excuse me guys, but you are both wrong. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are "for the American People" any longer. They represent the same damned corporate leeches that are selling our children's futures bit by bit. Why? Because the Republican and Democratic Politicians are nothing but greedy thieves and the rarity is the somewhat honest politician that has the interest of the people and the country in mind. If anything is to ever save this country from the downward spiral that we are in, it will be a third party, a Constitutional Party that returns this country to the principles that made it what it WAS, before these greedy bastards sold off this countries resources to the highest bidder...or lobbyist. Anyone who thinks that either of these party's can halt the decline that has been building momentum over the past two decades is in deep denial as these are the party's that initiated the decline during alternating terms of influence. They simply keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results, which just doesn't work. It is TIME FOR A CHANGE, a change BACK to what made the country great....but was lost through greed and corruption. Men like Sen. George McGovern, men with integrity and decency are what is missing in politics and without men with these character traits we are going to continue the downward spiral, it is time to return to what worked, and to throw what caused the problems out on their asses.

The only dems left who have the guts to stand up for what our party is is the PCCC and they're villified as "communists. socialists and radical lefities" when they're what our party USED to be all about before so many DINOS hijacked us, and the word "liberal" in the Beltway from the 80's/forward became a word too many dems have been afraid to USE OR RUN ON. WE need to and the base of who abandoned them WILL be back 10 fold.
The McGoverns, the Ted Kennedys, and this arm of our party which remains has not forgotten that. Stay strong and start "running on your liberalism". You'll win back many who jumped ship and gave us the disastrous results of the 2010 midterms by voting 3rd party or not voting at all.

The hammer and sickle of the Ted Kennedy's and George McGoverns is nothing to be proud of.

BUT...he wssn't respected enough to even come close to carrying his state in the election.

Messa Dave wrote:

"mainly because of the severe left wing shift of the current Democratic Party"

Are you serious? Conservatives in Europe - including UK - are at least considering all their people as part of the "one people" concept and plan and subsidize solidarity (as opposed to ignorantly hated so-said socialism in the US) with the poorest. In the US? Nothing serious about this in the programs of either dominant parties. Even the very small fraction of US voters do not have the education to think about giving a little so that their neighbors don't starve to death. Yes I know that they starve because they're guilty of some religulous sin. BS!

Rest in peace Mr Charles McGovern, your name will be cherished by those who knew you for being an honest and courageous person.

Both parties have shifted to the right in the past 40 years. Democrats are now right-center and Republicans are extreme right-psychotic. 40 years ago, the John Birch Society was considered comically extreme, a laughingstock, but now, without changing their tune by a single note, they're mainstream Republicans.

It is not the Democrat party shifting to the left, it is your shift to the right. I doubt you ever really supported McGovern. You just saw it as a better choice than Nixon. That is not believing in the progressive ideas of George McGovern. Don't blame the Democrats for your own slide away from anything progressive.

I agree! I too voted for McGovern in '72. But I wouldn't vote for a democrat today if you paid me. The democratic party today is in no way anything like it was back then.

You will be even less inclined to vote for a Democrat when this whole Libya terrorist attack unfolds. The president gets a 3:00am call that the embassy is being bombed and he send the call to Hiliary? Then lies 6 times to the UN 14 days later that it is the fault of the 11 minute video. Maybe he should have taken the call. Maybe he should have gone to the Securioty briefing the next day instead of LV. Ya think?