Nixon may have been a great Republican, but he was a shitty conservative. I'll take Ike, Coolidge, Taft, hell, even Harding over Nixon as a president ANY day. Nixon is way down there on the weaselly Rockefeller side of the GOP.
Can't say I'm really all that interested in the opinions of a crowd that to this day insists Ronald Reagan was some kind of socialist.
And if you're wondering, don't: I'm not really interested in discussing whether the light from a lighthouse washing over the waves is a capitalistic endeavor that should be regulated by "market forces" because the service rendered is some kind of commodity. Or any of the other how many Adam Smith truisms can dance on the head of a Milton Friedman philosophical pin? debates that seem to tie you "Libertarians" into silly, endless knots for hours, days, weeks, months, years & decades on end.
BTW: Ayn Rand wasn't all that bright, IMHO.