Stagger Lee’s Eighth Rule of Political Discourse:
Anyone invoking George McGovern as a signifying comparison for Presidential elections after 1984 is automatically not worth taking seriously. A similar comparison holds for Barry Goldwater (with the exception of discussions of John McCain solely related to the angle of candidates from Arizona; any other correlation will not be taken under advisement as intelligent commentary).
Any election that took place before the current candidates were able to vote is not germane to this one, and the caliber of intellectual laziness that relies on such comparisons will not be indulged by this publication. So if you seriously think we’re experiencing a repeat of 1972 this year, well…
