In the current Newsweek (the February 25 issue), columnist George Will wrote about George McGovern and the current delegate selection rules on the Democratic side. But what stuck out was Will's subhead on McGovern: "He thinks he could have won in 1972 with a running mate called 'the most trusted man in America' -- Walter Cronkite." Will reported:
McGovern thinks he could have won with a running mate then called "the most trusted man in America"—Walter Cronkite. Before choosing Eagleton, McGovern considered asking Cronkite, who recently indicated he would have accepted.
Usually, network anchormen are offered more obscure posts than the vice presidency. Clinton asked Tom Brokaw if he wanted to run the national parks. NBC anchor John Chancellor worked for Lyndon Johnson as the director of Voice of America -- before he became an anchorman. Cronkite, who in 1972 was about halfway through his time at the top of the CBS Evening News, regrets stepping aside for Dan Rather in 1981. (Especially since Rather stayed way past Cronkite's retirement age of 65.)
For those of you too young to remember the liberal bias of Walter Cronkite, here's a few examples.
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February 19, 2008 - 23:54 ET by KC MulvilleIf you stand on one side of a river, and want to reach the closest point on the other side, you cannot walk directly at it. The river's current will pull you off course. To reach the other side, you have to compensate for the current, usually by walking right into it.
Liberals never seem to learn this basic lesson. They raise taxes, thereby discouraging investment, which cuts job growth, and eventually lose tax revenue in the long run. They promise to stop fighting wars, which promotes war against us. They walk straight toward their goal, oblivious to the currents, and wind up far downstream.
Then they blame the conservatives. Must be those evil conservatives.
McGovern never figured it out.
All I can say is.....
February 20, 2008 - 00:06 ET by motherbeltWHAT?!?!?!
Ooops
February 20, 2008 - 13:06 ET by KC MulvilleDid I do a fly-by there?
So.......
February 20, 2008 - 00:16 ET by BarkerCould an Obama/Olbermann ticket be in the making?
Olbermann would have to be sane
February 20, 2008 - 00:24 ET by Matthew Sheffieldin order for that to happen.
Thank God we didn't have to actually find out!
February 20, 2008 - 01:32 ET by R D HelmJust think what might have happened had McGovern actually asked Wally Crankcase to be his VEEP, and Wally had actually accepted.
What is worse, suppose they had then actually won the election?
Would we now be reading NB in Russian?
Would there even be a NB?
Would we even be here?
Richard Nixon could have spotted McGovern...
February 20, 2008 - 01:56 ET by Lame CherryDick Nixon could have spotted McGovern, Texas, California and
New York, tossed in Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan with his Walter Cronkite and still lost, LOST LOST LOST LOST.
Americans might get fooled once, and put up with a pervert like Clinton, but they were not going to let McGovern anywhere near anything with nuclear buttons on it nor the button on their wallets.
Mr. Graham............might I suggest someone actually bringing it up now the absolute bias of Walter Cronkite in actually being an agent of George McGovern to bring down Nixon in retaliation for his trouncing the Democrats.
As Peter Paul is now suing the Clinton machine to expose their fraud, one would conclude the Conservative group aiding him now certainly could haul old Walter into court, subpeona Dan Rather about what he knew, when he knew it..........and just what kind of financial records were going on to bring down Richard Nixon.
McGovern could take the stand and repeat how deluded he was and still is like Jimmy Carter thinks if he had just started a war with Iran he would be president.............McGovern thinks he would have won if he had Cronkite. Those people are deluded!
For the record, the only Democrat elected was LBJ due to JFK sympathy and it was not about Barry Goldwater. Carter scammed in on the Nixon coup along with Ford not being Conservative and Clinton only got into office due to the Lawrence Walsh coup and stayed there by blackmail.
Conservative always wins in America, not goofy liberalism.
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And speaking of McGovern
February 20, 2008 - 06:59 ET by sarcasmoI'm STILL looking for his WSJ editorial from the early '90s regarding the (McGovernite-rules/lawyers induced) failure of his retirement bed & breakfast. George's unpleasant experience in the private sector (getting his ass sued out of a business) made him a LOT more sensible. That's why today's Democrats would do well to listen to his words. Strangely, George's WSJ editorial is referenced in a number of places on the 'net, but I and others have had 0 luck finding the thing with search engines.
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If this is winning, I think I'd rather lose...