Ramblings of a Senile Old Man/Leftwing Thinking = Same/Same
George McGovern is calling for the impeachment of President Bush in this Washington Post opinion piece.
The usual litany - he illegally lied us into war in Iraq; he’s cruelly exploited 9/11 to make us all so fearful that we went along with him; he’s having people tortured at Gitmo; he deliberately bungled the Katrina recovery; he stole the 2000 election; he’s spying on Americans…all of the really rather stupid things the left has gathered together about President Bush since the Supreme Court insisted in 2000 that the laws be followed and denied Al Gore’s request to keep changing Florida’s election laws until they came out with a result he liked. Historians in the future will marvel at this - a man, President Bush, intensely hated and that hatred based upon an accusation of election-stealing which should actually be levelled against his 2000 opponent, Al Gore.
We’d love to be a united country again - but we’re not going to be as long as the left demonises us on the right.
UPDATE: Well, he’s either senile, or he’s a liar - from Volokh:
Setting aside the arguments for and against impeaching President Bush, McGovern is seriously misrepresenting his position on the Nixon impeachment proceedings. According to these news stories, for example, McGovern called for impeaching President Nixon in a speech in Richmond, VA in October 1973 in order “to make America safe for Democracy.” A Westlaw search also identifies abstracts to New York Times stories suggesting McGovern urged Nixon’s impeachment on other occasions as well. For instance, the abstract to a NYT story from January 21, 1974 reports that McGovern believed there were “ample grounds” for impeaching President Nixon and that he was urging the Democratic Party to take this position.
I suppose McGovern could defend his column by arguing that he did not support Nixon’s impeachment in the immediate aftermath of the 1972 Presidential election, and only supported impeachment later on. Yet if this were the case, he should have qualified his claim, perhaps by writing “Immediately after the 1972 presidential election.” As written, his article is misleading, if not worse.
You know, it wasn’t just Nixon they wanted to impeach…they were calls for the impeachment of Ronald Reagan, too. I’ll bet there were such calls also made for Ford and the elder Bush, as well. Essentially, liberal Democrats have a core belief that conservative Republicanism is - or at least should be - illegal. They’re always saying we doing this illegal, that illegal, the other illegal…calling for President Bush’s impeachment really has nothing to do with President Bush, but with a general desire on the left for the right to be silenced.
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