He also signed off on the Endangered Species Act.
Where I’m coming from on this is a interesting slant. No he wasn’t a dyed in the wool Conservative. He sure wasn’t the enemy of Katheryn Graham’s causes either. And yet that bitch flew into him and sicked her dogs on him.
Do you think Nixon was worse than any Leftist in his day? Hell no. And that’s where I’m coming from on this. No Nixon was not our idea of a Conservative by any means, but this is war. The Left does what they do, and then we help them take our own down. And yes I realize he wasn’t “our own” on important issues.
Look, if we’re going to sign off on them taking Nixon down, and then selling the idea he was the worst bastard in the White House ever, we just as well hang up our hat and forget about trying to get someone elected.
I say defend Nixon. I say defend him on the grounds that if they had been in there, they would have done all the things you listed that Nixon did, that we didn’t like. So if you think about it, those things are a push.
Should we seek out guys like Nixon and try to get them elected? Hell no, but if we don’t defend them against the proverbial witch hunt, who is safe?
Look at our last nomination process. That is exactly what I’m talking about. The media laid back and dropped bombshell after bombshell and we let them knock our folks out of the races. Some of them were decent people too.
How many dead bodies were there around Nixon? How many scandals the level of White Water were there? How many women came forward claiming rape? How many more were intimidated by private eyes intimidating them?
Did Nixon get massive payouts in donations from the Chinese? Did Nixon install known spies in the White House? Did Nixon facilitate China getting our MIRV Technology, the latest Gyro Technology, and a myriad of other top secret items and top rate briefings?
I think it’s great to realize who Nixon was, and to hold him to account on it. I just think we play right into the Left’s hands when we allow them to act as if Nixon was the worst president we ever had, and Bill Clinton was just a popular playboy the Right was jealous of. As for Obama, they play us off as racists, and Nixon remains the Devil’s spawn.
Nixon was far from perfect, but he was a piker as it relates to Clinton and Obama. And as long as we allow them to make him the scorn king, it’s a blight on our cause.
Clinton and Obama both deserve jail time, and it’s a lot more serious jail time than Nixon deserved.
That’s where I’m coming from.
Politically we did not identify with him, and still don’t. That’s okay. We shouldn’t. I’ll be damned if I want to let the Left game the whole thing though. No way.
The outside the beltway conservative radio preachers and commentators I listened to in the 1970’s all were as disgusted as I was with the liberal media and their attacks on Nixon.
But they also pointed out Nixon’s expansion of government and his appeasement of communism.
Since 1901 all the presidents except Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Reagan have moved this country leftward at different rates of speed.
And I think that’s wrong.
The liberal media is still the liberal media and I’m not going to change it. Bitterness and resentment doesn’t work either and I got fired from my media job with a cloud over my tiny attempts to be “fair and balanced”.