The Triple 'A' Candidate.....Hunter S. Thompson Was Right.

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Just finished listening to Kevin Sylvester interview George McGovern, who has written a new book on Lincoln, for a full hour on the Ceeb*.

It was completely inspiring on a huge range of issues, including the fact that Mr. McGovern was emphatic that there are times when wanting to win too much is actually losing.

And then he gave specific examples about Nixon.

Not the Nixon that made crap up about him, like the header above in 1972, but instead the Nixon of 1946 who demonstrated very early on what the evils of Atwater/Ailes/Rovianism would become 40 years later.

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McGovern is 87 years old now and he wants to live to be 100.

Why?

So that he, in a true demonstration of bipartisanship, can work with Bob Dole to feed every school kid in the world lunch every day.

Sound crazy?

Sound utopian?

Sound like another of those ridiculous, bleeding heart liberal pie-in-the-sky wastes of big money that people like Margaret Wente and Rex Murphy and Bobo Brooks will denounce, like, yesterday, if not before?

Sure thing.

But consider this.......

Luring kids to school in developing nations is just about the best, cheapest form of birth control ever invented.

No amnesty.

No acid.

And, most definitely, no abortion required.

(not to mention gods or goddesses)

OK?


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*Which is still, for the moment at least, radio of the people, by the people, for the people.

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