George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern (1922 - 2012) was a multi-term Senator from South Dakota. He ran for the Presidency against Richard Nixon in 1972 in a campaign marked by an inability to garner even a negligible amount of electoral votes and the fact that two dopey college kids, Bill Clinton and his favorite gal, Hillary Rodham, became political aspirants as a result of being inspired by probably the most dis-heartening election of the era.[1] During the campaign, Nixon was absolutely insane from his own paranoia. He red-baited McGovern for his involvement in the 1947 electoral campaign of Henry A. Wallace, the pro-Soviet former Vice President under FDR. McGovern made numerous stupid decisions in his campaign, such as hiring Thomas Eagleton as his running mate and campaigning on a platform of "amnesty, acid, and abortion." Blame Eagleton for that. Eventually, McGovern dropped Eagleton from the ticket and replaced him with Sargent Shriver, but the damage was done.

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Even though every sane person knew that McGovern would lose by a lot, Nixon played every dirty trick he could think of – including the Watergate burglary – to prevent McGovern's quixotic campaign from winning. Like most things Nixon did, this was insane; it would be like Walter White going into the meth trade to finance a trip to the dentist. Of course, we know how it ended: Nixon was destroyed in Marlovian fashion by his own delusions, and McGovern was quietly forgotten.

References
  1. cf. One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern.
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