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Oh, irony of irony of ironies.

"BringBackMyHuac" considers Richard Nixon a "sell-out" and Felt a "hero."

Well. Putting aside Felt (even though he was an unprincipled rat), and concentrating on Nixon as a "sell-out" we find the following:

The only time the House Un-American Activities Committee was considered anything other than a buffoonish joke by pretty much everyone in the country Left, Right, & Center was when a young congressman from California's 12th district successfully maneuvered a communist spy and traitor by the name of Alger Hiss into perjuring himself before it. Irony #1.

It was for uncovering this snooty paladin of the Democrat Party establishment and darling of the liberal media for the contemptible skunk that he was that earned that young congressman the undying enmity of both--an enmity that continues right on to this day a full eleven years after his death. Irony #2.

Largely as a result of the prominence this young congressman gained for his work in exposing this communist traitor & spy (and, for once, making HUAC actually look almost respectable), he went on to the Senate and shortly after that to the Vice-presidency of the United States. In 1960 he had a presidential election stolen from him. The crew that stole it then spent the next eight years, under the tutelage of two different administrations, dribbling forces into Vietnam to fight a war they had no intention of "winning" in any conventional sense; they were playing "not to lose," which is a sure strategy for defeat. Here the ironies really start to get thick.

By 1969, this figure of hatred for the Democrats and, especially, the liberal media was back, and in the Oval Office. He'd inherited a war he hadn't started, and would never have conducted in the manner it was being waged, from the team that'd been able to launch it by swindling him out of his victory eight years earlier. He then proceeded to win that war, without widening it. When the last American combat forces departed Vietnam in early 1973, the North Vietnamese military was in shambles; South Vietnam was free; the ARVN was, if not an exceptional fighting force, at least a competent one capable of defending the South as long as they were reliably resupplied and reequipped by the United States and backed by U.S. Airpower--which is precisely the model that had (and has) worked so successfully in another conflict on the Korean peninsula twenty years previous, when a former California congressman just happened to be Vice President.

In the meantime, and quite apart from the conflict in Vietnam, a prescient gaze at the world scene circa 1969 showed a ripe opportunity to sow mischief in the "Communist Bloc": the two communist superpowers, China & the Soviet Union, were at each others throats diplomatically, and on the brink of open warfare on several occasions. Exploiting these divisions, the former California congressman, now President, accomplished a successful "two-fer": at the start of his term, there were more Russian combat divisions in Eastern Europe facing NATO than on the Manchurian border facing China; by the time he left office, that ratio was almost precisely reversed; China's massive markets were opened, slowly, to capitalism and all the goodies that come with it for American business & commerce; and the seeds to ultimately undermine the Communist system--over years--were first sown.

And the Soviet Union was setup perfectly for the economic ruination of their system that would commence in the 1980's under the resolute leadership of a former Governor from California.

Flush with success, this President who had accomplished so much coasted to a well-deserved landslide reelection in the happy year of 1972. The hatred of his devout enemies, carried over from those long-ago HUAC hearings that had exposed one of their dandy own as a rank traitor to his country, swelled, flared, and sizzled. Their resentments had been gathering force, nursed by their own innate guilt at having been unwitting accomplices to that singular act of proved treason, for years; and at that exact juncture, the President of the United States, in his own words, "handed them a sword."

And (to paraphrase the 37th President himself) they plucked it up, used it with gleeful relish, and, in their partisan selfishness & rancor, twisted it; sadly the fallout was not confined to just one ruined political career. South Vietnam was financially abandoned and, lacking needed American support, left to its inevitable fate at the hands of the ruthless communist regime in the North; Cambodia was ravaged by the larger forces unleashed in the wake of Saigon's collapse; the Soviet Union, sensing American weakness in the fallout, exported "revolution" to Angola, Central America, and invaded Afghanistan outright; in the United States the pathetic onetime tenure of James Earl Carter was endured; the fall of the Berlin Wall and liberation of Eastern Europe was delayed.

All of this is what Mr. Felt aided & abetted in bringing about, in his own small way, by skulking around in a garage basement with Bob Woodward in base violation of the oath he'd sworn to uphold when he joined the FBI.

This is what any sensible reading of history tells us.

Some "hero" he was, alrighty.../extreme contemptuous sarcasm.

Get real.