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==="insurgent candidates"===
==="insurgent candidates"===
The original "insurgent candidate" the Hunt Commission referred indirectly to was George McGovern, whom after his massive Electoral loss in 1972 was seen as anti-[[patriot]]ic for his longstanding opposition to President [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s War which had the effect of dividing the party, and the country, and permanently tarnished Johnson and Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]]'s<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html?_r=0 </ref> [[civil rights]] records, painting these two [[liberal]]s for posterity as "war hawks".
The original "insurgent candidate" the Hunt Commission referred indirectly to was George McGovern, whom after his massive Electoral loss in 1972 was seen as anti-[[patriot]]ic for his longstanding opposition to President [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s War which had the effect of dividing the party, and the country, and permanently tarnished Johnson and Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]]'s<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html?_r=0 America’s Forgotten Liberal], By RICK PERLSTEINMAY, ''New York Times'', May 26, 2011. </ref> [[civil rights]] records, painting these two [[liberal]]s for posterity as "war hawks".
[[George Wallace]] was considered a particularly unwelcome insurgent, considering he had won [[United_States_presidential_election,_1968#Results|more states and Electors in 1968]] than the [[United_States_presidential_election,_1972#Results|party's own nominee in 1972]]. Wallace had sown disruption and division within the party in the 1964, 1972, and 1976 election cycles which had conflicted with the party's outreach aims culminating in the [[Voting Rights Act]] of 1965 and the affirmative action quotas of the McGovern-Fraser and [[Mikulski Commission]]s. Many [[Conservative Democrat|Southern Democrat]]s by this time already viewed themselves as ''persona non grata'' and moved to the Republicans, such as Texas Governor and presidential aspirant [[John Connally]], and others.
[[George Wallace]] was considered a particularly unwelcome insurgent, considering he had won [[United_States_presidential_election,_1968#Results|more states and Electors in 1968]] than the [[United_States_presidential_election,_1972#Results|party's own nominee in 1972]]. Wallace had sown disruption and division within the party in the 1964, 1972, and 1976 election cycles which had conflicted with the party's outreach aims culminating in the [[Voting Rights Act]] of 1965 and the affirmative action quotas of the McGovern-Fraser and [[Mikulski Commission]]s. Many [[Conservative Democrat|Southern Democrat]]s by this time already viewed themselves as ''persona non grata'' and moved to the Republicans, such as Texas Governor and presidential aspirant [[John Connally]], and others.