General Discussion

Funny thing is though, LBJ was 100times as liberal as RFK.
LBJ did things others only dreamed of. LBJ did.
and one forgets, without LBJ, JFK would never have won in 1960.
It was a great thing that LBJ accepted the VP.

It was sheer genius.
The best team up until President Obama asked Hillary to be his SOS

You see, in 1968 the democratic party was fractured.
Wallace the racist
McCarthy still thought he should be the nominee
HHH

and only some wanted Bobby.

It's not revisionist, it's the truth.

Eugene McCarthy hated what Bobby did, and mcCarthy was the anti-war candidate.
In essence, McCarthy was what Howard Dean was in 2000, and Bobby was Kerry.

Remember what Murray Kempton famously wrote?
" Bobby was like a man who comes down from the hills after the battle and shoots the wounded."

anyhow, I defy you to say how Bobby would have won the electoral college?
HHH was leading at the time of RFK's death in delegates, and in support of the party, and the big unions.

And McCarthy as said was the Howard Dean.And he never quit.
and, to top it off, George McGovern was a late entry into the race and he was nominated in 1972.

Wallace won 47 electoral votes (I would wager, LBJ would have won all of those),
and Nixon won California

The only one who could have beaten Nixon was LBJ.

And remember, the most important endorsement anyone got was Richard Daley,Chicago's cool populist, and HHH got that.