I wish conservatives would stop defending this guy. We will always owe him a debt of gratitude for fighting the communists in the 50’s, but otherwise he was an awful liberal. As Charles Murry points out in “losing ground”, Nixon was the one who had the initial results in from the Great Society and could have killed it, but didn’t.
Agreed, good post.
I was a member of the Young Republicans Club in high school back in the sixties. Richard Nixon received my first vote for a presidential candidate. Even though he was a tough on communism, he quickly became an enabler of the Great Society policies. His call for “peace with honor” and his going to Red China were two worthy efforts. However, as a politician Nixon always lived on the edge. The leftwing establishment was out to get him since the late 1940s. The Watergate Affair gave the left ammunition to take Nixon down. I see no evidence that Nixon was anything but a crook. A cheap crook, nonetheless. If Nixon did nothing wrong, he should never have stepped down.
There is a fascinating book, a real eye opener ‘The Amendment a novel’ about Nixon and the 25th Amendment. It’s on Amazon a great read and follows this viewpoint.
This is more about exposing an artificial liberal MSM + New Left hit-job than about defending Nixon per se.
I think a comment on another blog is relevent here ... where I discuss the roots of partisan blood sport politics ... It goes WAY back to the fact that Nixon knocked off a leftist Senator inCalifornia by callign her a pinko (which she was).
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The disgusting no-hold-barred politics has been a product of the marxists, who begat the New Left in the 1960s, who used this “end justified the means”. They started this hateful vitriol against Nixon, it worked, and so the left has used it since then: Against Reagan, against Newt Gingrich, against G W Bush.
Its poisoned the well, and so today over the top hysterical politics is practiced on all sides. the biggest joke/lie is that Obama is different. Obama grew up with leftists and his pastor gave sermons saying stuff like “God damn America”. Obama and Clinton both are student of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” which is a part of what has caused this degeneration in political discourse. Expect more of the same if Obama becomes President.
Obama’s wife has threatened to make us do more and to ‘cure our souls’ (like we are somehow sick people) if obama is elected. This is all subtle left-wing derived agitation, just like the “yes we can” slogan, lifted from leftwing union slogan of Cesar Chavez.
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If we let the liberals write the history and white-wash their partisan use of false testimony or media bias; well, they will just do it again. The Plame Affair of 2004 to 2007 was another example of that. Another hit job from the left.