McGovern to endorse Clark!

[Nym90]

The only way that Clark (or Dean, or anyone) will be another McGovern is if Bush does to the Dem nominee what Nixon did to McGovern. If Bush pulls a Watergate, sure he can win by 20 points.

People always forget that about 1972. Sure McGovern was made out to be a far leftist, but it didn't hurt that Nixon stole his campaign plans and bugged the DNC!

[Nym90]

That's my point though, yes Nixon would have won anyway, but Watergate still worked to the extent that McGovern is perceived as a joke to this day still. He wouldn't have been a joke if it hadn't been for Watergate. He still would've lost, but the margin would have been much less and he wouldn't have been portrayed as a wacko peacenik. The man was a World War II fighter pilot, had gotten elected to the Senate from a conservative state (South Dakota), and he was made out to be some commie pinko radical. Yes, he was liberal, but he was also a great war hero and patriot.