Walz's Eagleton connection

[mystery-ak]

August 10, 2024
Walz's Eagleton connection
By Dennis Lund

The ‘Eagleton Affair’ may not come immediately to mind, except to those who either were old enough to vote in 1972 or are true students of history and politics. Thomas Eagleton was then a 42-year-old senator from Missouri who became George McGovern’s fifth or sixth choice for the VP slot after McGovern had secured the nomination. The more preferred choices had already said no to McGovern, probably the furthest Left candidate ever to run for the Presidency at that time. When so many say no, there is usually a good reason for doing so. McGovern was that reason.

Eagleton lasted about three weeks in total as the VP nominee. News had broken out that he had been under the care of a psychiatrist and had undergone shock therapy for depression. It soon became apparent that Eagleton was a bad choice, who would likely seal the fate of the fledgling McGovern candidacy. He was summarily dumped in favor of one Sargent Shriver, a member of the Kennedy Family by marriage.

The choice of Eagleton was one made in haste, not properly vetted, and one that created more problems than solutions. Plain and simple: McGovern dropped the ball and never recovered. The result was a Nixon landslide: 520-17 in the electoral college with Massachusetts being the only state McGovern carried (he also won in D.C.).

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

Plain and simple: McGovern dropped the ball and never recovered.

Eagleton was a distraction, just like Walz.

McGovern was the real problem, just like Kamala

[Cyber Liberty]

Plain and simple: McGovern dropped the ball and never recovered.

Eagleton was a distraction, just like Walz.

McGovern was the real problem, just like Kamala

Yup!  I was 14 in 1972 and I remember this well.  My parents were life-long Democrats at the time, and they voted for Nixon because McGovern was way, way too far left.  It wasn't because of the Eagleton/Shriver crackup, it was because of McGovern.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Even Lefty states like Hawaii and New York rebuked McGovern

[Fishrrman]

I remember the map above.

But a half-century ago, this was still "The United States of America".

Today, it is that in name only.
In reality, we now live in The Divided States of America.

The divisions are so deep, that the states will never again stand "united".

What's to be done...?

[jafo2010]

1972 was my first election.  I was in the group of the first 18 year olds to vote. 

But I will tell you, the electorate then and the electorate now are two completely different groups of people.  Way different.  A large sector of our electorate today are foreign born, and they vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

Plus, our education systems, K-12, colleges and universities all have been brainwashing our young such that a large percentage think socialism is acceptable.

These changes in our systems have huge consequences.  And last but not least, The Republican Party is no longer distinctive from the Democrats.  They are zebras, one and all.  The Dems have black stripes and the Republicans have white stripes.  You just can't tell them apart any longer.  Gone are the conservative values that made up the Republican Party.  GONE!  GONE!  GONE!!