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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
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• 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.
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In effect, the war in Iraq was made possible by that McGovernism a generation ago.
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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).
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They are, for the first time since they were put there as a firewall against McGovernism, they may actually have a role here.
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Lieberman cited at length a 1999 National Review article by Norman Podhoretz, in which Podhoretz credited President Clinton with saving Democrats from McGovernism.
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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
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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
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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
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