McGovernism

Nowadays, I'm told, he jokes about how his name is used as a noun - "McGovernism" being understood as the very definition of history from the evolution of mythology?

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Come Home, Connecticut: McGovernism is alive and well in the Nutmeg State

Midterm Roundup 2009

• Many conservatives allege that the Democrats went astray when they embraced McGovernism, but Duncan Hunter put their decline about ten years earlier — when John F. Kennedy declined to attack Cuba.

Election Central Debate Roundup 2009

In effect, the war in Iraq was made possible by that McGovernism a generation ago.

Matthew Yglesias » Sweet Victory 2007

Hard to believe, in hindsight, that the consequences would span a generation, especially since McGovernism had the benefit of a war hero as its chief proponent (McGovern).

Matthew Yglesias » Sweet Victory 2007

They are, for the first time since they were put there as a firewall against McGovernism, they may actually have a role here.

Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster 2009

Lieberman cited at length a 1999 National Review article by Norman Podhoretz, in which Podhoretz credited President Clinton with saving Democrats from McGovernism.

What Happened to Al Gore? 2008

But he was concerned that Clinton was the choice of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, which he saw as a kind of inquisition determined to purge any stray “McGovernism” from the party.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

The most noted passage in the acceptance speech, the ending, would be caricatured and distorted for decades ahead, cited as the essence of “McGovernism,” a phrase the right wing—and his enemies in the Democratic Party—treated as synonymous with national weakness.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

But he was concerned that Clinton was the choice of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, which he saw as a kind of inquisition determined to purge any stray “McGovernism” from the party.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007