Remember George McGovern? He's aging, but he's ticked at Bush/Cheney.
The man's still stuck in war protest gear.
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Welcome to the song:
Long as he wants to go opposite to the foe
We'll stay with the old man wherever he wants to stay
Long as he stays away from the battle's fray
Because we love him, we love him
Especially when he keeps us on the ball
That’s Irving Berlin, apropos of George McGovern's this, from an op/ed in Sundays Washington Post:
I have not been heavily involved in singing the praises of the Nixon administration. But the case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era?
Scratching your head? Well, don't. George McGovern is still fighting yesterday's war:
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How could a once-admired, great nation fall into such a quagmire of killing, immorality and lawlessness?
George hasn't been reading the news. The News. The News from he who is to know.
You know, I would advocate the impeachment of the hypothetical President McGovern, but he had his clock cleaned by Dick Nixon in '72 before he could be. How metaphysical!
George's solution? Vote for the party of doubt, fear, and concession of defeat:
I believe we have a chance to heal the wounds the nation has suffered in the opening decade of the 21st century. This recovery may take a generation and will depend on the election of a series of rational [read "Democratic"] presidents and Congresses. At age 85, I won't be around to witness the completion of the difficult rebuilding of our sorely damaged country, but I'd like to hold on long enough to see the healing begin.
If "rational" meant rational to George, Nancy, Harry, Hillary, Byrd, etc. wouldn't have a place in the Congress of the old man's dreams. Neither would such irrational sorts as Carter, Clinton (Bill), Barry, Hillary, Edwards, or Richardson be eligible for election. Why? Because to be rational, one must not be ruled by anti-war passions which convert judgment into sneering.
But the McGovernicks, they'll sing:
Long as he wants to go opposite to the foe
We'll stay with the old man wherever he wants to stay
Long as he stays away from the battle's fray
Because we love him, we love him
Especially when he keeps us on the ball
G'night and God Bless.
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McGovern's article was the same pile of "generic accusations" he might have read from dKos, DU, Huffington, Dogfirelake, whatever.
"Bush did this, this, and that. I say so. Impeach him."
And a nickel is forwarded, as always, to our friend 'bs' for the use of his name.
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Helloooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Seventy percent of today's voters don't even know who George McGovern is, or what he did or didn't do. More importantly, no one cares what he thinks. When do these old farts just continue their well earned rest and stay the hell out of the dialogue? Who has heard a word from Bill Bradley in God knows how long, and there it is, his endorsement running over the wires. Shut the hell up! If you don't have a platform to inject your perspective periodically, then sticking your head up, at this stage, has zero value. Go back to whatever you were doing too; we're not interested.
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If the Dems are stupid enough to try to impeach Bush, then I say, bring it on ...
"Impeach Yo Momma"
Had the republican elephant next to it. I chuckled for quite a while after seeing it.
What we need in a leader is to tell us not what we want to hear, but what we need to hear.
Senility, noun, [si-nil-i-tee], mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.
Before you get to heaven, you must go through hell, which in my case is the People's Republic of Massachusetts.
...McGovern was senile back in '72 as well.
Let's not go down that road, we're not Kos. McGovern knows darn well what he is saying, as does Jimmy Carter. They are both trying to use their "good intentions" to promote their agenda, and consider any means necessary to remove obstacles blocking it from coming to pass.
"Senile" isn't the right word... but "useful idiot" is the right phrase.
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Is McGovern still McGoverning his mental faculties well enough to know that GWB is term-limited and out in less than 1 year?
"If this ain't a mess, it'll do until one shows up." -Sheriff Bell, No Country For Old Men
Is McGovern still McGoverning his mental faculties well enough to know that GWB is term-limited and out in less than 1 year?
If you honestly believe the POTUS committed impeachable offenses and/or violated the Constitution it doesn't matter how long he has left in his term. I'm not saying McG's argument was a good one, but the idea of impeachment has merit. It's about precedent and the primacy of the Constitution that is the important thing. If offenses are being committed, you don't want the next president, whether it's Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama to be able to repeat those offenses and be able to show that it was done before.
"I have recalled Jefferson's observation: 'Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.'"
Given the the communist bloodbaths in Cambodia and Vietnam that resulted from the sentator's "peace" policies, and also his and the Democratic party's abortion-on-demand agenda, I can only conclude that the sentator is very selective about when he chooses to tremble before God's justice.
He claims he did not get involvedin calling for Nixon's removal from office. Like the rest of the fact-free screed he is selling at the WaPo, this is a lie:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?num=100&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&...
Lefties are alien to truth and truly do hate America.
McGovern demonstrated this in 1972 and proves it still today.
I'm presonally glad that those people who were too young to follow politics in 1972 are able to get a look at why McGovern's campaign resulted in the most lopsided presidential election in American history (Massachusets and the DC vs. the rest of the country - he didn't even take his home state of SoDak).
Speaking of civics education, I'm coming to the conlusion that anyone who doesn't understand the difference between "impeachment" and "recall" doesn't deserve the right to vote. I keep hearing these moonbats talk about impeachment, but I've yet to actually see a specific charge of an impeacable offense. Get a clue, folks - you can't impeach a president for having low approval ratings, and there is NO constitutional mechanism for a presidential recall vote.
I'd expect McGovern to know better, but then again, anyone who lived through the Carter presidency but claims that he can't remember a presidency as damaging to the country as the Bush administration is obviously suffering from Alzheimer's.
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"Impeach Bush" is so much more inflammatory; and allows for such intelligent allegations of real impeachable offenses such as: 1. Bush and Cheney lied about WMD; 2. Bush violated the Constitution; 3: Bush took us to war illegally; and 4: Bush stole the 2000 election. Damn, I get myself all worked up just typing that stuff. Talk about a group of people needing a fleet enema just to give there brains a rest.
Check my blog for a definitive answer to McGovern's impeachment
scenario.
continually and whichever party is in power. Must be the NSA program which members knew about in late September 2001 and which is still in place. Well Rockefeller did put a letter in his desk on that one.
It might just be that George, and a lot like him, don't want to know the difference between legal and illegal, it gets in the way of their emotions and opens the door to expansive speculation as to what liberals mean by "healing the wounds".
Cauterization maybe ?
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There are no real specifics in McGoverns attacks just some generic accusations that Bush lied, etc, etc