What does this obsession with the ultra liberal Nixon say about ultra liberals?
Lib-think on it’s idiotic display. Whatever Nixon believed is the belief of the entire Republican Party.
BARF ALERT!
I wonder why we never discuss what Kennedy, Carter or Clintoon tell us about the Democrap party.... hmmm.
rantings of a lower-than-whale-sh*t-liberal “author”
When do liberals think abortion is “necessary”?
Hitchens ....nothing to see here .....move along.
Brought to you by the same idiots who think that our founders were not religious...
I heard that portion of the tape; I found it a bit disturbing.
And what would Hillary’s “f-ing jew bastard” comment say about the entire Democratic party if THAT was caught on tape?
[I can still remember the profound sense of loathing and disgust that I experienced at the mere sight, let alone the sound, of him]
Funny, that’s how I feel about Obama.
Hitchin’s hatred of Nixon only elevates Nixon in my opinon. The article is full of accusations and name calling, but the evidence he gives in support of his dogma is inconclusive in many cases.
All Democrats refer to women as “Sweetie”. I know this is true because I saw Obama do it once.
Bump to my tagline.
Response: Do thoughts of "The Divine One" result in you experiencing pleasurable anal twitches?
Hey Hitch, bambi makes Nixon look like little lord Fauntleroy.
On the other hand, many Democrats like Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, et. al were all pro-life, and since Democrats were supposed to "stand up for the little guy", it was thought they would be the pro-life party.
You can thank the Feminazis and Ronald Reagan for the switch.
Chris must have written this on another of his lost weekends
Nixon took us off the gold standard, and created health care ‘benefits’ deduction for employers.
You dont buy your homeowners insurance or your car insurance from your employer, but why buy health insurance from them?
I am convinced it was a plan from day 1 to creep towards socialized medicine
Nixon is a mixed bag.
He was a “conservative” only in the sense that he was anti-communist and made his bones stopping communist subversion on the part of Soviet agents.
In terms of economics and the role of government, he was not conservative at all. He was responsible for the EPA and his way of getting control of inflation was his infamous wage and price freeze, which naturally did not work and broke down rather quickly.
He is of course famous for the Watergate breakins and was eventually forced from office over them. He did not order them, his crime was in covering for his men once he did find out. But its good to remember that their purpose was to uncover Democrat perfidy of the time. As happened under Bush 43, classified information kept turning up on page one of the New York Times, and he put together a team of operatives whose job it was to find the source and plug it. When they got in trouble, he tried to cover for them. Should he have? In retrospect, no, but at the time it seemed unfair in his eyes that they should take a fall while the Dems would get off scot free. So he tried to cover for them and the rest is history.
There is more to it, but thats the short version.
Hitchens can blame Nixon for his conduct of the war, but the war was a disaster when he inherited it from the Democrats. He forced an end to it. Then he was removed from office, the Democrats scuttled the agreement and probably 3 million people died as a result. Peaceniks got to congratulate themselves for ending the war, guys like Hitchens can ruminate in their nausea at the thought of Nixon, but it is the Democrats who have the blood of millions on their hands.
Nixon (and Kissinger’s) goal was to end the war in a way that left South Vietnam and Cambodia independent, and Thailand safe from subversion and attack. The Democrats (having lost interest in the war) wanted to end it whatever it cost, and never counted the cost of the millions in Asian lives that their abandonment cost.
I have never met any aging hippie yet who understood that driving Nixon from office and abandoning the Vietnamese brought on the genocide that followed. For them there is no genocide. If a tree falls in the forest, and it isn’t on the evening news, did three million people really die?
Yeah, they did. Good job. Like Hitchens, you’ve got a lot to be proud of.