George McGovern, an unabashed liberal voice, is dead

[Jim Lane]

10. Belated admission: McGovern was right and I was wrong.

During the 1972 campaign, I read a piece criticizing McGovern for something he said about the corruption of the Nixon Administration. The writer said that McGovern should "stop saying things that only seventeen Yippies and The New York Review of Books will take seriously" and should instead stick to more restrained but still valid attacks. I agreed. I voted for him (my first election) anyway.

Of course, as we later learned, wild accusations that couldn't possibly be true were, in fact, true. It was McGovern who saw it.

Incidentally, I read a thread on FR a couple days ago, occasioned by the news of his imminent end. There were even several Freepers who said that, yes, he was a liberal and that's terrible, but he put his butt on the line for his country flying bombing missions in World War II, and that at least should be respected.

Farewell to a great American.