Nixon deserved it. Wage and price controls? Really?
The venom at aimed at President Reagan was pathetic. If you weren't paying attention to anything other than the major media, you would think there was a bumbling idiot in the White House who could do nothing right and was destroying the country, except that all the misery from the Carter years just sort of disappeared and everyone started doing really well.
So yes, they've done this before. President Reagan survived. Actions speak louder than words and the lasting prosperity his policies fostered spoke for themselves. So can Governor Palin.
“Nixon deserved it. Wage and price controls? Really?”
The loathing of RMN started long before wage and price controls were a gleam in his eye. The left hated him for calling Helen Gahagan Douglas a communist and hated him even worse for exposing and getting Alger Hiss (one of their heros and, not coincidentally, a founder of the UN and State Dept Honcho) convicted as a Soviet spy. Later, they hated him for not surrendering in the Vietnam war. Loathing of RMN was entirely unrelated to wage and price controls.