Humphrey had been elected again to the Senate in 1970 and 1976, and he died in early ’78 at age 66. He ran for majority leader, and I think he lost to Robert Byrd.

In 1968, when Humphrey beat McCarthy for the Dem presidential nomination, a friend of mine had a big color poster of Humphrey on the wall of this room, which read, “Some people talk change. Others cause it.”

Humphrey lost the ’72 presidential nomination to McGovern.

Eugene McCarthy did attempt to regain a senate seat in 1982 but he did not win the Democratic Party’s primary election.

I’ve always wondered whether McCarthy would have run for re-election to the Senate in 1970 if Hubert Humphrey had not run. What do you think, Phil? It appeared to me that Humphrey’s candidacy may have scared Gene out of the race.

For a ‘third party person’ in Democratic leaden California, who would support ANY Democratic candidate in any election year after 1984, you must love both Davis [a horrible excuse for a human being] AND Nixon!

Phil Sawyer responds:

Eugene J. McCarthy was on the California Democratic Party’s presidential primary ballot in 1992 and I was very active in his campaign. He should have been elected president of the United States!

Why did you write that I must love Richard Nixon, by the way?

The conservative third party efforts began after Reagan lost the ’76 Republican nomination to President Ford, but Reagan would have nothing to do with such efforts. In his ‘Conservative Digest’ magazine in the late ’70s, Viguerie was pushing John Connally for the ’80 GOP nomination.

Viguerie once ran for lieutenant governor at the Virginia Republican Convention. That was at some point after 1976.

#18: Nixon lost to Gov. Pat Brown by nearly 300,000 votes in 1962. I believe it was 54% to 46%.

War hero? Some EXAGGERATED copter rides into the bush!

He could have been the 2005 elected federal chief executive, even if losing California’s electors…..

We dodged that bullet. If he was that terrific a governor, why has he not bounced back electorial? Hey even Nixon, whom some deranged souls still think was ‘an excellent leader’, almost beat Brown, did beat HHH in 68 and clobbered a true war hero, McGovern, in 72,

For a ‘third party person’ in Democratic leaden California, who would support ANY Democratic candidate in any election year after 1984, you must love both Davis [a horrible excuse for a human being] AND Nixon!

The recall of Governor Gray Davis was an absurd action and an abuse of justice and the political system. It never should have happened. Governor Davis was a Vietnam War hero and an excellent leader for our state.

Regarding Third Party Watch: Who really knows what is going to happen with it? I don’t even visit that site much anymore. My name for it is “Bourgeois Conservative Party Watch.” It is pretty much a waste of time.