Posted on 10/26/2006 2:02:03 PM PDT by rob777
"It may be fairly said that but for Ronald Reagan the days of our democracy might well have been numbered by the consequences of the 1974 election." Can we afford to take the chance that another Ronald Reagan will come along and "rescue" us again?
Amen!
John O'Neill for President. Why doesn't he run?
This time around, the mistake made by the sheeple will probably cost our nation tens of thousands of lives. We will see terrorists strike again and this time around it will be more devastating than we can imagine. I really wonder if our days are numbered as a nation. I think that the Democrats and others on the Left have given us to the enemy, and the end will come.
We need to get the Pubbies back in office and hopefully the rank and file in the House and Senate will change the leadership. Frist is gone and hopefully someone with some testciles will take his place like a re-elected Santoruium or even Mitch McConnel.
"We need to get the Pubbies back in office and hopefully the rank and file in the House and Senate will change the leadership."
That is my take as well.
"Within a short time, the mainstream media were able to dismember and destroy the Nixon Administration . . ."
Crap.
Nixon and his thugs destroyed themselves and gave us Carter and all the joy of his administration. Loyalty is admirable, but not when it blinds us to reality.
Unlike Nixon, Bush is an honorable man doing his best under extremely difficult circumstances. He's ducking bullets from every direction. Shame on those pouty rightwingers who choose to join the dark side when they don't get their way.
The disaffected among his party can't understand why they can't have everything their way. It's selfishness, not pragmatism that drives them.
Conservative whiners will be to blame if they tie the hands of a good man during his final two years in office and hand Congress to the democrats.
Baytown, wow, it's a small world...I went to Baytown Sterling for HS.
And you are correct, sir, Jimmy Carter is 100% responsible for the Iran we have now...worst POTUS ever.
I know what you mean. The first presidential vote I cast was for Ford and against Carter. Ironically, it was Ayn Rand, a poor judge of a person's character, who set me on the path to oppose Jimmy Carter when she said at the Ford Hall Forum (Boston) that Carter was infected with power lust.
I'm glad I was just a kid back in 1974.
I would have been livid as a conservative to have lived
through those dark years.
I hope we've learned that lesson never to give power, during wartime, to the democrats.
I'm with you all the way rob777 !!!
Victory For Liddy and Silent Coup
By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | February 20, 2001
On February 1, a Baltimore jury gave radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy a victory over Maxie Wells, regarded by some as a surrogate for former White House Counsel John Dean, who was expected to testify for her but did not show. Seven of the nine jurors agreed that Liddy had not libeled Wells. The judge declared a mistrial and dismissed the case, saying that no reasonable jury could find Mr. Liddy negligent in making the statements at issue in this case.
Wells sued over statements Liddy had made that the Watergate burglars were sent into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to find photos of call girls believed to be kept in Wells' desk to show to visitors who were looking for a date. Ms. Wells, a secretary at the time, denied that she had such photos, or any connection with prostitution.She sought damages of $5.1 million dollars.
Ten years ago, Silent Coup, a bestseller by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, challenged the accepted version of the Watergate story. They claimed they had found the real reason for the Watergate break-in. Liddy was one of those directing the operation, but on the 20th anniversary of Watergate, he said he didn't know the real reason for the break-in until he read Silent Coup.
He said the book convinced him that John Dean, who has been given credit for exposing it, was actually the one who ordered it. He said that Dean did so because the name of his girl friend, Maureen Biner, had been was on a list of call girls being used by the DNC that had fallen into the hands of the police. Dean, he claimed, wanted to find out if her photo was among those believed to have been kept in Maxie Wells' desk because he feared the Democrats might have information harmful to him.
Silent Coup built on the foundation laid by Jim Hougan, whose book, Secret Agenda, published in 1984, charged that Wells was arranging dates for Democratic dignitaries, who were the real targets of the break-in. Hougan's testimony was very helpful to Liddy. Colodny and Gettlin had found support for their theory in several contradictory things that Dean had written. Dean had tried to explain some of them by claiming that he didn't write or even read his own book, Blind Ambition. Nevertheless, the media have treated Dean as a respected figure. Liddy called Dean a liar and virtually dared him to sue, which Dean did in 1992. Dean settled out of court with Colodny and Gettlin, but not with Liddy. Last June he dropped the charges against Liddy without prejudice.
Liddy declared victory and again called Dean a liar. That left Maxie Wells' suit against Liddy as the last chance to test the credibility of Dean and Silent Coup in court. Liddy's victory was as much a victory for Silent Coup as for himself. The Washington Post, which has guarded its theory of Watergate by never mentioning Silent Coup, began its report on the end of the Wells' libel suit saying, "The wildcat notion that the Watergate burglary was intended to cover up a call-girl ring was catapulted today out of the realm of fringe conspiracy theories by a deadlocked jury that leaned heavily toward siding with the scenario's leading proponent, G. Gordon Liddy."
http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1064_0_2_0_C/
How did Nixon destroy himself? With the third rate burglary? Kennedy bugged more people than Nixon ever considered bugging. Including the ultimate PC Saint, MLK Jr.
Amen.
Please see my post #16.
Nixon never knew what hit him at the time...
The only thing that appalls me is the slimy demonrats who are totally ignored by the MSM.
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