Bernie's Demeanor is to divide not to unite.

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107. Many of them resurfaced in other

elections and GOP administrations. They're like an infestation of vermin.

https://swampland.time.com/2012/01/19/top-10-dirty-political-tricks-2/slide/donald-segretti-and-the-nixon-gang/

The Watergate scandal is the most famous case of political deviance in Americanhistory. But take away the burglary and the cover-up that eventually took down Richard Nixon, and the 1972 campaign still stands as one of the dirtiest in modern times. The smears began well before the general election when Nixon’s operatives, including Donald Segretti, attacked various participants in theDemocratic primaries. They printed fliers attacking Maine Senator Ed Muskie’s stance on Israel and put them under the windshield wipers of cars outside Miami Bear synagogues. The fliers looked like they came from the campaign of Democrat John Lindsay. Segretti and company stole Citizens for Muskie stationary andsent out a letter accusing Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of fathering an illegitimate child with a teenager and claiming that he had been arrested for homosexuality in the 1950s. The letters would land Segretti in jail. In 1974, he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing false campaign literature and served a little more than 4 months in prison. Nixon, of course, resigned the Presidency in 1974.

I remember how the same gang would pretend to be an "advance team" for McGovern in 1972 and line up events in various places that were supposedly for McGovern. Of course they weren't and McGovern was given all the blame.

I am so sick of people who apparently do NOT know their political history hitting on McGovern. Yes, he was to the left of most Dems of the day. But he was a WWII veteran - with medals to show for it - and a lifelong Democrat. He opposed the Vietnam War from 1963 on and, as we all know today, was correct in doing so. He was always interesting in helping the most vulnerable among us and was a stellar public servant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern

That he lost the 1972 election so badly was in part due to Nixon & Co.'s dirty tricks, his own honesty and low-key campaign style, and the coalition of Southern Democrats (most the same as those later known as "Reagan Democrats&quot who opposed him fiercely. Also, he would never have been the Democrats' first choice, had others not been forced out by N & C's dirty tricks.

But I will NEVER regret having voted for him in 1972!