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| McGovern (& family) voted for Ford in 1976 | |
| 2007-01-04 | |
| Major cutting. h/t: The Corner MCGOVERN: I have to tell you something I've never said before publicly. I voted for [Ford] in 1976. KING: What? MCGOVERN: When he – yes, I did. And at Thanksgiving dinner that year, I never said anything about this to Eleanor or to her five children. But I told them at Thanksgiving time I had voted for President Ford, even though he lost. And I told them why, because I thought he had come in at a difficult time. I didn't know President Carter very well then. And I just felt more comfortable somehow with Gerry Ford. Whereupon my wife Eleanor said, so did I vote for him. We went around that table – this is hard to believe – all five of my kids voted for him. So they get seven votes out of the McGovern family for President Ford and Senator Dole, my long-time Republican friend. I voted for Carter again in 1980. So with my brand of political luck, I voted against Carter when he won, I voted for him when he lost. But I can justify both of those votes.
McGovern has it backwards. I would have voted for Carter in '76 when I was young and foolish (more reason to not let 14-year olds have the vote. The first vote I ever cast, months after turning 18, was for Ronald Reagan (OK, electors pledged to him), the top of the ticket. | |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #6 He flew the Ploesti oil raids too. Well I thank him for his brave service. But that doesn't mean he's not a shitbag. Look at Rangel.... |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-01-04 11:49 |
| #5 He flew the Ploesti oil raids too. That was low level and into a sheet of flack. He had personal courage, just twisted into a socialist later. |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2007-01-04 11:33 |
| #4 The good Senator was also a B-24 pilot in WWII and flew missions over Germany and Italy. I questioned his ideas and, from time to time his common sense, but I never questioned his patriotism. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-01-04 10:12 |
| #3 Carter is my biggest political mistake. The only Democrat for national office I ever voted for. Luckily that was corrected in '80. McGovern was an ass and more or less a Socialist, but, he was never a traitor like JF**nKerry or the peanut farmer. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-01-04 09:06 |
| #2 Back in '72, McGovern was a radical leftist. Now, he'd be in the mainstream. Compared to HIllary! or J. Forbes Kerry (millionaire), he's a real patriot. He had a lot of terrible ideas, but he never betrayed his country. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-01-04 08:16 |
| #1 Strange story. McGovern was as far left as anyone the Dems have ever put up for office. Nixon received over 20% more votes in what was the biggest landslide ever. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2007-01-04 06:25 |