Reply #15: 1968 I voted for McCarthy in the primary. Hubert Humphrey got

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the nomination much to my consternation. I wanted so much to see McCarthy get the nom. I think that was the first time the Pubs started using liberal as a dirty word; Eugene McCarthy was the liberal activist anti-war (Vietnam)candidate. So I didn't get to vote for my candidate. McCarthy was hawkish (at last in my eyes).I felt McCarthy would have gotten us out of Vietnam. I was pissed to say the least when he didn't get the nomination. I was sucked in by one of Richard Nixon's better speeches pledging to get us out of that damned war as his first priority. I cast my vote for Richard M. Nixon. Have kicked my..uh..self ever since.
Eugene McCarthy was a true progressive, smart, great experience, in every sense of the word a good liberal Democrat. It has taken many years for the word liberal to be accepted in the true meaning of the word. The L word was used by the Republicans in a derogatory sense and many voters equated that with a being a 'pinko'.



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