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The Mikado
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« on: April 21, 2008, 12:51:51 PM »

RFK until the assassination, Humphrey afterwards.

Seriously, Eugene McCarthy, the man who said that the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia crushing the Prague Spring was a bigger deal in Moscow than Prague?  Not the man I'd want running my foreign policy.
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2008, 04:19:35 PM »

more than likely Eugene McCarthy, since I would have been way more liberal if placed back then.

Eugene McCarthy wasn't really that far left-wing, he was just a crotchety old man who took contrarian positions just to piss people off.  Sort of a proto-Mike Gravel.
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2008, 06:00:58 PM »

Kind of reminds me of 2008, people are arguing over two unelectable candidates, though one has a better shot.

Bobby Kennedy could well have won.  Hell, HHH could have won.

It was the tumultuous convention in Chicago, more than the primary fight, that made the Dems lose in 1968.  The images of anarchy and a wild, war-like atmosphere doomed the Dems.
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