Posted on 05/31/2005 6:11:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
I never did like liberal deomcrats.
I was sorta distracted by other things but heard Rush and news reports ,... what kept rattling around my head was , FELT was a bigdeal in THE HOOVER FBI , not warm&fuzzy
I suggest you pay close attention to the speeches that Ronald Reagan gave during the Nixon years, because he was clearly talking about taking the country in a conservative direction. Reagan would never have insulted Nixon, by name, but it was clear that he was unhappy with his policies.
Way too self conscious and dour.
I like my Pubbies bright, shiny and upbeat.
rush is right. his is a good observation.
i'm tired of woodward and his pretentious presentations. for example, i read his "veil" and no one to this day can figure out how he got into the dying william casey's hospital room. you just don't walk into the head of the cia's room.
also, there was the book "silent coup: the removal of a president" an interesting account of woodward's doings prior to joining the wa wa post.
he was a u.s. naval officer assigned to the ultra secret task of transferring orally sensitive information from the pentagon to the president of the united states daily.
then, after leaving the navy, he applied at the wa wa post but was turned down. so, he spent 6 months over at a small town paper in potomac, md--hardly the place to get noticed by the post.
then the post hired him.
conclusion: someone probably greased the skids for him to get hired at the post.
People in the Administration breaking the law is not a state secret.
As much as I detest Woodward and Bernstein and what they did, I fail to see how what Felt disclosed was illegal let alone treason.
Nixon had completely lost the support of his own party. The Democrats had a huge majority in the House and the Senate, he was going to be impeached and removed. Goldwater and others went to visit him a few days before he resigned to inform him that he could not survive and that even they were inclined to vote against him on some of the articles of impeachment.
Nixon was a staunch conservative for his era, even if he did have some pretty stupid ideas about domestic policy, like wage-price controls, the EPA and affirmative action. His saving grace was he was a fierce anticommunist.
Maybe that's why Felt came out with the information. He was also sick of seeing a couple of liberal nitwits getting so much exposure. Now WB has no more story to tell, and if they try most will see it for what it is, just hype.
"I suggest you pay close attention to the speeches that Ronald Reagan gave during the Nixon years,"
I wrote in Reagan in 1972 and never voted for Nixon.
But Reagan was still a liberal when Nixon was chasing communists out of government and we owe him a lot. It was very tought to fight the tide of liberalism/socialism/communism back then and sure, Nixon made concessions to get elected. But knew the big picture and that was that communists had killed 90 million in the prior 60 years and that they were on the verge of killing another 10 million. And that the marxist usefull idiots were keeping the public blind to this genocide in the hopes of taking over the world. Don't forget that Greece, Italy, France were on the verge of communist takeover and that the Russians had just stolen the secrets for the bomb.
This was a very scary time and Nixon will come to be known as a real American Hero.
Some kinda record for the weasels at the Communist News Network to crow about.
You are right. Nixon's enemies turned his penchant for loyalty into his Achilles' Heel.
I agree, what Nixon did in the fight against communism makes him a national hero. However, it does NOT make him a fiscal conservative.
"Nixon was the young conservative who knocked the liberal darling Helen Gahagan Douglas out of the Senate, for which the left and MSM never forgave him. He was put on the ticket in 1952 to add appeal to conservatives to balance Ike's squishy moderate tendencies. Nixon went to the wall for Whittaker Chambers and after Alger Hiss, again for which the left and MSM never forgave him."
You got that right - Nixon was hounded worse that a Swift Boat Convention in Taxachusetts.
Sure, his wage and price controls sucked but it was tought to win an election back then with all that Kennedy Camelot
BS and Johnsons "Guns and Butter" Blue
Sky Welfarism. And even harder to win when you had MASSIVE voter fraud in the Kennedy election. Nixon could have demanded a recount and would have won against Kennedy but he did not want to subject the country to turmoil.
Reagan would not have happened if Nixon did not hold the fort in the 50's and 60's.
bttt
Charles Colson went to prison for letting one reporter see a part of someone's FBI file. This guy was leaking information in a very criminal way, and he's a hero.
Linda Tripp tells law enforcement about an attempt to obstruct justice for a woman who was sexually harressed and she is a pariah. This guy Felt gives out information in a criminal way, contrary to a sworn oath he has taken as a person in a position of trust with in the goverment, and he is a hero.
If he was concerned he should have disclosed his concerns to the proper jurisdictional legal authority, not to a couple of then-unknown media punks. It was most certainly not treason, and it may not have been illegal, but it was clearly unethical.
I agree, the guy seemed rather criminal to be turning Nixon in on this.
I certainly agree that it was unethical and probably should have cost him his job, but I don't think it was unethical and it damn sure wasn't treason.
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