"Fred the peabrain" wrote
"Brett" wrote in message
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"Fred the peabrain" wrote:
"Brett" wrote in message

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Try again peabrain - your own editing achieved that goal, my
original

What goal?

The editing addition of an opinion to an opinion free original comment.

You lost me here. But that's Ok, I was trying to be hip and the fact
is, I don't do hip very well.


comment was that Nixon didn't paint him up as the "subversive
peacenik"
he
and his supporters did that and they didn't need any help in
achieving
that
goal.

Do you say that like it was bad thing, or not?

It was how the McGovern campaign wanted to be viewed and it lost him the
election.

I'm not clear that it lost him the election.

He was Nixon's dream opposition candidate because of them.

It is doubtful that
McGovern could do to win the election.

As I said in the previous post "he wasn't the best choice the Democrats had
available in 1972".