Reply #16: The phrase was used by (I think) PA Republican Senator Hugh Scott

[birdman]

McGovern was painted as the candidate of hippies
and radicals. He favored abortion rights, decriminalization
of marijuana (not acid but Scott needed an "a" word) and amnesty for those who avoided Vietnam (an issue that's almost forgotten today
but could certainly get a rise out of some people back then). Those
who try to draw the Dean-McGovern analogy refer only to the war
issue and forget that McGovern lost a lot of votes because of
cultural issues. That would be unlikely to happen with Dean.