Saturday, December 10, 2005
Eugene McCarthy has passed.
The former Senator Eugene McCarthy has passed. He is most famous for being the anti-Vietnam candidate in the Democratic primaries of 1968. He is less famous for being a liberal dead set against campaign finance reform.
...McCarthy said money helped him in the 1968 race. "We had a few big contributors," he said. "And that's true of any liberal movement. In the American Revolution, they didn't get matching funds from George III."
I had no idea about this remarkable fact:
In 1980 he endorsed Republican Ronald Reagan with the argument that anyone was better than incumbent Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.
Eugene McCarthy was a liberal, a poet, and a statesman. R.I.P.
...McCarthy said money helped him in the 1968 race. "We had a few big contributors," he said. "And that's true of any liberal movement. In the American Revolution, they didn't get matching funds from George III."
I had no idea about this remarkable fact:
In 1980 he endorsed Republican Ronald Reagan with the argument that anyone was better than incumbent Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.
Eugene McCarthy was a liberal, a poet, and a statesman. R.I.P.
