George McGovern and the Tea Party

George McGovern lost because of one mistake too many (choosing and sticking with Eagleton too long after it was reported that Eagleton had had electrosho­ck therapy a decade earlier to treat depression­), after Democratic disappoint­ment after disappoint­ment (from the deths of JFK, RFK, MLK to Ted & Chappaquid­lck) in a race with the very Republican­s who invented modern day 'dirty tricks'-ca­mpaigning (Nixon).  McGovern's delay in dropping Eagleton from the ticket spelled the end for what would have been a landslide in favor of Democrats for years to come.   

Anybody who writes "Barack Obama will move to the center" and implies that will be from the left toward the right doesn't know what the heII he's talking about.
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