[colorado tanker]

In his time, Nixon was a conservative and thoroughly despised for it by the media and Dems. Ike defeated Taft for the 1952 nomination. He put Nixon on the ticket to give the conservative wing of the party something.Nixon was a Cold Warrior who exposed Alger Hiss and the left hated him for it.

Nixon was certainly to the right of JFK.

The 1968 race was between Nixon and Rockefeller. All the pundits said the Republicans should not nominate Nixon because he was too conservative and "unelectable."

Nixon did some things in office modern free market conservatives would not have done, but he inherited such a mess from JFK/LBJ he couldn't fight on every front, especially with the Dems holding both houses.

Reaganism passed 1950's conservative by and Nixon too. It's easy to throw bricks at him in 2021, but that's the error of historical anachronism the left makes so often.

[unclebankster]

Good post.

I thoroughly enjoy the members of Free Republic, who are older than me and have a historical perspective.

I wasn’t born till 1971, but I still remember how pissed my father was about Watergate. I’m paraphrasing, because I was only three and didn’t know anything about politics.

My father said something like “Nixon’s out” those suckers “got him out.” I assume looking back he meant the Democrats, some Republicans, & the media.