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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:00 PM Original message |
Who would you have supported for the Dem nomination in 1968? |
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teddy51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Robert Kennedy, hands down. If any here watched the mini series |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Read my sig line. |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. McCarthy |
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godai (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Likewise n/t |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I wrote him in in Calif |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. HHH |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
6. RFK, had he lived. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. I would have supported RFK in 1968 if he had lived. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. Another assassination clearing the way for Nixon and rise of the right -- !! |
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workinclasszero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
7. Bobby Kennedy |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. Kennedy, Then McGovern Then HHH |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. Bobby. nt |
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MFrohike (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. Humphrey |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
35. As a Minnesotan I agree that he was an excellent Democrat. What |
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MFrohike (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 06:41 PM Response to Reply #35 |
52. Sort of like Al Gore, I guess |
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October (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. RFK, definitely. No question. |
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Flashmann (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
14. RFK |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
15. Probably McCarthy... |
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robdogbucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. Clean with Gene |
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ChandlerJr (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. How about who DID I support in '68 |
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robdogbucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Huh? |
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ChandlerJr (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. *sigh* Maybe you had to have been there. |
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robdogbucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Save your sighs. I was there |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. I won't speak ill of the dead, |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. The Kennedys are definitely 1%ers |
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robdogbucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #32 |
44. As are Turner, Soros, Buffett, etc. |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. So long as they continue to posess their family wealth, they don't qualify as progressives |
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robdogbucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. M'kay, if you say so n/t |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. I remember supporting McGovern and then |
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mulsh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. I canvased in our deeply republican neighborhood |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. McCarthy! |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
22. I supported Humphrey. |
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ChoppinBroccoli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
23. I Wasn't Born Until 1972............... |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
24. McCarthy. He had the courage to take on LBJ. Bobby didn't get in until |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. Then where was Gene's "courage" to continue against Bobby? |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. Gene had no problem with Bobby. He realized that Bobby would be more |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
39. True, McCarthy was the one who challenged LBJ in New Hampshire, but |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:45 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Actually you are right. I didn't quite have the time line right. n/t |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
25. I supported McCarthy, |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
27. I supported Clean Gene and would support someone like him in 2012. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
29. For many of us, the question is: Whom DID you support? Me? Bobby. |
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
30. It didn't matter to me.....I went out and worked for Hubert Humphrey |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
34. I supported RFK. And would again. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
36. I supported Bobby and then McCarthy. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
37. Bobby, McCarthy, Humphrey ... in that order -- I'd question every election |
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kiranon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
40. Supported RFK and passed out his campaign materials in Oakland. |
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SteveG (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
41. I came clean for Gene in 68 |
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trackfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
45. My family was for McCarthy all the way. n/t |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
46. Bobby. No question. . . . . .n/t |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
48. Don't know, but we would have been far better off with any of those 3 |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
50. Hubert Humphrey. n/t. |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
51. I was 4, but Kennedy... |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
53. RFK. Not even close. n/t |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
54. McCarthy! n/t |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
55. You mean who DID I support - Senator Eugene McCarthy. |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
56. Tough call. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-13-11 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
57. RFK. |
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