[LibertarianInExile]

It's Armand Hammer, oh-so-wise one. You'd prefer to blame our present situation with China on the Clintons, but the sellouts go back far further than you'd like to admit. And that 'wedge' logic is just an excuse because again, Nixon had a -R after his name. That same excuse could have been used with Franco's Spain ("we kept him from aligning with Hitler!"). Never mind that Fascist Spain wasn't about to align with Hitler other than where convenient for Spain. Never mind that the Chinese weren't about to align with the Soviets other than where convenient for China. It was appeasement to deal with the Chinese. It was appeasement to deal with a country that is set against us, no matter how we like to imagine otherwise.

Certainly, Nixon was a better option than McGovern or Humphrey, but he was no conservative. I believe he was only anti-Communist where he believed it would be to his political advantage. He was purely a political animal. I'm sorry that you prefer to play the "mind-numbed robot" to the extent that you blind yourself to history of American involvement in China and Nixon's mistake there, and to the point where you laugably pretend that Nixon was concerned about Mao's butchery, but I'm not about to join you in fantasyland. I suppose I should have been warned by your chosen freeper name.

[maica]

I believe he was only anti-Communist where he believed it would be to his political advantage.

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On what do you base this opinion? Nixon may not have been as conservative as you would like, but you are the first commentator that I have read that doubts his deep antipathy to Communism.

Besides having an R behind his name, the main reason that Nixon was reviled by the media of the time was his successful prosecution of Alger Hiss - a commie darling of the left.

[beckett]

I believe he was only anti-Communist where he believed it would be to his political advantage.

Total nonsense, demonstrating a lack of fundamental knowledge about the man you've chosen to criticize. Nixon was many things, a big government, spendthrift Republican among them, but his lifelong, intense anti-communism was sincere and straight from the gut.

By the way, it's laughable, oh-so-wise one.