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September 23, 2011

Florida 2011: Like 1972 Without the Classy Candidate?
Posted by Heather Hurlburt

In 1972, my dad was working for a GOP Senator and my mom was raising two kids and dabbling in peace activism.  (Back then this wasn't as conflict-producing as it sounds now.)  Maybe because I have recently seen Senators Kerry and Leahy both compare today's climate unfavorably to that period, when I saw the crowd at the GOP debate last night boo a servicemember with no rebukes from the podium, I called my parents for comment.  After all, we all "know" about disgraceful treatment of servicemembers back then, right?  What, I asked them, did George McGovern have to say about the booing of uniformed military?

Well, said my mom, McGovern used to tell audiences to oppose the policy, not the people.  That sounds like great advice for the GOP primary crowd.  These are the same people who have proposed cutting promised veterans' benefits, tried to slash the New GI Bill, and ignored the military's advice on everything from arms control to trying terrorism suspects to Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal.  Will they do the same damage to their movement's relations with the military, and trust of the American people, that the people who didn't heed McGovern's advice did 40 years ago?

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