Who would you have supported for the Dem nomination in 1968?

[WI_DEM]

Vice President Hubert Humphrey



Senator Robert Kennedy



Senator Eugene McCarthy

[teddy51]

1. Robert Kennedy, hands down. If any here watched the mini series

The Kennedy's and there was any truth in it, then Bobby was pretty much running things anyway. He was advising Jack every step of the way.

[mmonk]

2. Read my sig line.

That is who is responsible for me being a registered Democrat.

[FarCenter]

3. McCarthy

[godai]

5. Likewise n/t

[mitchtv]

8. I wrote him in in Calif

HHH was afraid to challenge the war

[WI_DEM]

4. HHH

I think he would have ended the war and been the best on domestic policies.

[KamaAina]

6. RFK, had he lived.

As would millions of people. That's what made him dangerous. :tinfoilhat:

[RebelOne]

12. I would have supported RFK in 1968 if he had lived.

I was around in 1968. And the first time I voted in my life was for JFK.

[defendandprotect]

38. Another assassination clearing the way for Nixon and rise of the right -- !!

[workinclasszero]

7. Bobby Kennedy

This country would be worlds different if he hadn't been assassinated.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Kennedy, Then McGovern Then HHH

I still think had the election been held a week later Humphrey would have won...

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Bobby. nt

[MFrohike]

11. Humphrey

He was one of the better presidents we never had. No one had better liberal credentials than him and he had the necessary experience to make things happen.

[jwirr]

35. As a Minnesotan I agree that he was an excellent Democrat. What

I remember about 68 is that he was at the convention and did not come out swinging. Actually appeared timid and as a coattail of LBJ. That is what turned many of us against him. It is really too bad - he would have been a much better president than tricky dick.

[MFrohike]

52. Sort of like Al Gore, I guess

Gore of 2000 vs. Gore of An Inconvenient Truth, I mean.

[October]

13. RFK, definitely. No question.

Edited to add: I was way too young to vote in 1968.

[Flashmann]

14. RFK

No doubt...

[MilesColtrane]

15. Probably McCarthy...

since he was the first anti-war Democrat in the race.

[robdogbucky]

16. Clean with Gene

RFK was dead. HHH was more of the same pro-war Dem stance.

[ChandlerJr]

17. How about who DID I support in '68

I "came clean for" and worked for Gene and abandoned the whole disgusting process after the interloper Kennedy co-opted the movement for his own personal and ill-considered self-aggrandizement. He came across to me as an arrogant, entitled, phony capitalizing on his brother's memory and family name.

He tore the party apart and delivered Nixon to the nation.

To this day I don't "do" personalities.

[robdogbucky]

20. Huh?

Let's see, RFK assassinated in June, 1968.

Chicago Convention fiasco in August, 1968.

Nixon elected in November, 1968.



The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. Coming four years after Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won in a historic landslide, it saw Johnson forced out of the race and Republican Richard Nixon elected. The election was a wrenching national experience, conducted against a backdrop that included the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and subsequent race riots across the nation, the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, widespread demonstrations against the Vietnam War across American university and college campuses, and violent confrontations between police and anti-war protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention as the Democratic party split again and again.

On November 5, 1968, the Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon won the election over the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Nixon ran on a campaign that promised to restore law and order to the nation's cities, torn by riots and crime. The election of 1968 was a realigning election that permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years.

The election featured a strong third party effort by former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Because Wallace's campaign opposed federal intervention in the South to end school segregation, he proved to be a formidable candidate in the South; no third-party candidate has won an entire state's electoral votes since...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1968



Why not just blame Wallace, at least he was still alive.

Nice Kennedy bashing though.

[ChandlerJr]

26. *sigh* Maybe you had to have been there.

And if you were, conscious of what was happening.

[robdogbucky]

33. Save your sighs. I was there

and I was conscious.

You?

[Blue_In_AK]

28. I won't speak ill of the dead,

but I do tend to agree with you to a certain extent. I remember being very frustrated by Kennedy's entry into the race, but I also remember being very distraught when he was gunned down.

[FarCenter]

32. The Kennedys are definitely 1%ers

Even if you think that their philosphy is aligned with progressive liberalism, their private bankers, trust custodians, accountants, lawyers, etc. are working to ensure that they reap all the benefits of great family wealth that was acquired on Wall Street.

[robdogbucky]

44. As are Turner, Soros, Buffett, etc.

The Kennedy brothers sure did not live like their admittedly shady and aggressive father, did they?


Is the accident of one's birth now something that cannot be forgiven on DU?


I wasn't aware that one's parentage determined one's worth, that is how the 1% feel about things, not me. I think that is channeling a repub value, don't you?


I don't hold their father's accumulation of wealth against them, especially in light of their active progressive lives they led in service to their country. I would be of the mind to tip my hat to old Joe, and thank him for bringing these three patriotic American leaders into our lives.



Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[FarCenter]

47. So long as they continue to posess their family wealth, they don't qualify as progressives

I'm fine with Kennedys, Soros, Turner, Buffett contributing to liberal causes.

But we should not look to them as leaders on political matters or let them set the agenda.

They have an inherent conflict of interest. Buffett can talk all he wants, but his underlings are running his companies to maximize their profits. Soros speculated against the British pound and cost the British taxpayers 1 billion pounds and the devaluation of their currency, raising living costs throughout Britain.

You've named three old guys now dealing with their guilty consciences.

[robdogbucky]

49. M'kay, if you say so n/t

[Cleita]

18. I remember supporting McGovern and then

Humphrey, whom I voted for in the general election.

[mulsh]

19. I canvased in our deeply republican neighborhood

for Bobby, I was 11 years old. I still have some Kennedy buttons. Very few of our neighbors were receptive. these days the old neighborhood is solidly democratic.

[Odin2005]

21. McCarthy!

[Morning Dew]

22. I supported Humphrey.

Couldn't vote for him because I was 11 years old.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

23. I Wasn't Born Until 1972...............

.............but if we could find a reasonable facsimile of Bobby Kennedy today, I'd support that person to the very end. Currently the guy I believe in more than any other is Sherrod Brown. I hope he runs in 2016.

[totodeinhere]

24. McCarthy. He had the courage to take on LBJ. Bobby didn't get in until

LBJ was already out of the race.

[WinkyDink]

31. Then where was Gene's "courage" to continue against Bobby?

[totodeinhere]

42. Gene had no problem with Bobby. He realized that Bobby would be more

likely to beat Nixon. Gene accomplished what he set out to do when he drove LBJ out of the race.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

39. True, McCarthy was the one who challenged LBJ in New Hampshire, but

RFK got in the race a couple weeks before LBJ dropped out.
McCarthy is a political hero of mine.

[totodeinhere]

43. Actually you are right. I didn't quite have the time line right. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I supported McCarthy,

but ultimately I didn't vote at all that year because I was so pissed at what went on in Chicago. It was the first year I would have been eligible to vote (I was 22). I think that was the last time I boycotted a presidential election.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. I supported Clean Gene and would support someone like him in 2012.

I also cast my first presidential vote for the Peace & Freedom Party candidate, Dr. Benjamin Spock.

[WinkyDink]

29. For many of us, the question is: Whom DID you support? Me? Bobby.

[Stuart G]

30. It didn't matter to me.....I went out and worked for Hubert Humphrey

He couldn't publically oppose Johnson.

If elected, he would have gotten us out of Viet Name quickly..
As quickly as the others would have

I still got literature from that election. yes..
And you know, walking the streets, knocking on doors for him. are proud moments in my life.
He was as honest as they come..
and I recall a couple of years later reading the thing he hated most about politics on the national level...........


raising and asking for money..he despised that.

[jwirr]

34. I supported RFK. And would again.

[sinkingfeeling]

36. I supported Bobby and then McCarthy.

[defendandprotect]

37. Bobby, McCarthy, Humphrey ... in that order -- I'd question every election

back to Humphrey/Nixon -- voting computers began to come in during late 1960's ---

[kiranon]

40. Supported RFK and passed out his campaign materials in Oakland.

[SteveG]

41. I came clean for Gene in 68

I worked for McCarthy's campaign. Humphrey was to tied to Johnson's war policies, and I didn't trust Kennedy.

[trackfan]

45. My family was for McCarthy all the way. n/t

[annabanana]

46. Bobby. No question. . . . . .n/t

[JI7]

48. Don't know, but we would have been far better off with any of those 3

and i like all 3 myself.

[apocalypsehow]

50. Hubert Humphrey. n/t.

[Wait Wut]

51. I was 4, but Kennedy...

...no question.

[stevedeshazer]

53. RFK. Not even close. n/t

[markpkessinger]

54. McCarthy! n/t

[Raksha]

55. You mean who DID I support - Senator Eugene McCarthy.

It was the first election I was old enough to vote in. Tough judgment call between him and RFK, but I supported McCarthy because he seemed to have a stronger commitment to ending the Vietnam War.

[AngryOldDem]

56. Tough call.

Glad I was only 8 at the time.

I probably would have been energized at an RFK nomination, but I think he pretty much co-opted McCarthy's agenda. That said, RFK would have most likely beaten Nixon. So I would have gone with RFK.

[RagAss]

57. RFK.