I would argue that elections alone will not solve the problem. I remember the real McGovern. I remember that Nixon won in 1972 with just over 60 percent of the popular vote and won the electoral vote 520 to 17. Yet, within two years the left drove him from office. Do not believe that Nixon brought it all on himself. Yes, covering up to protect his people was a mistake, but it was SOP for politicians. Both parties bugged each other, both parties did dirty tricks (Dick Tuck was the Dems' master and the media loved him), and both parties covered up.
Nixon was hated by the left beginning from the time he was an anti-Communist congressman in the late 1940s. It appears to me that President Bush is hated at least as much. Once "Watergate" got started there was little else the media talked about. There was some honest reporting even without talk radio and the Internet but you had to look for it. Most people watched TV network "news." I remember asking my younger co-workers what did Nixon do? None could really answer beyond, he lied.
There may not be a "Watergate" today but today's news contains a story about just who, by name, was responsible for "letting" 9/11 happen -- you know what all the forces of the left will do with that story in an election year. Next year may be when we learn just what it takes to stop the left from motivating our enemies by destroying ANOTHER wartime administration. Never again!
I remember the watergate series of disclosures, every day it was something new. Then came the disclosure that every conversation had been taped by Nixon himself. On the tape he came across as a vulger man who was very suspecious of the electorate who overwhelmingly elected him. He did bring it on himself, by revealing his true personality to the voters. He could have withstood the burglery and bugging if he came clean before the world found out about the tapes. BTW, his use of the F word was much the same as Kerry, and he will be destroyed by this as well, even though the use of vulgarity is more common today, people do not want this in their leadership.
Memo to future presidents, forget the auto tape system, find a way to conduct the secret parts of the mission in secret, and have a moral compass.