Talk:Eugene McCarthy

I'm not especially happy with the flow of the third paragraph, so if anyone sees a way to improve it, be my guest. Ground 13:46, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

RIP Clean Gene

We'll miss you.

Hear Hear Thesocialistesq 18:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I worked for him in 68 when he was the only Democrat willing to run against incumbent Johnson. Like many of his supporters, I felt betrayed when Kennedy and then McGovern split the antiwar movement and guaranteed Nixon's election. Why does it seem like we need someone like him again? alteripse 04:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

1980 Endorsement

I know this had probably already been gone over somewhere before but he didn't endorse Clark in 1980, he just wrote the intro to his book. He endorsed Reagan. Pimpalicious 17:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also like to see some evidence of him supporting Nader in 2000. I've seen several sources that say he supported Gore and he isn't talked about as being a support anywhere in Nader's book Crashing The Party, which is full of name dropping. Pimpalicious 17:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

View of Politics

Sometime in the 70s I heard him on the radio saying that a successful politician has to fit Vince Lombardi's description of a successful football coach: "Smart enough to master and manipulate a complicated set of rules and variables, and stupid enough to think that it means anything."