Reply #8: McCarthy also supported Reagan in 1980,

[bornskeptic]

and then there was this:

He opposed Watergate-era campaign finance laws, becoming a plaintiff in the landmark case of Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that certain provisions of federal campaign finance laws were unconstitutional.<18> McCarthy, along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, philanthropist Stewart Mott, the Conservative Party of New York State, the Mississippi Republican Party, and the Libertarian Party, were the plaintiffs in Buckley, becoming key players in killing campaign spending limits and public financing of political campaigns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy

Any Democrat who could still support McCarthy for President in 1988 has to have his sanity questioned.