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To: gondramB
I wonder where the country would be if that been no Watergate and no Jimmy Carter.

In 1972 Nixon was re-elected in one of the most massive landslide elections in U.S. political history, defeating George McGovern and garnering over 60% of the popular vote. He carried 49 of the 50 states, trailing only in Massachusetts.
Richard Nixon

A few key differences exist between the political environment of the 1970s and the 2000s. The Left now lacks their monolithic MSM and a solid Democrat majority in both houses required to subvert the will of the people:

The coup that overthrew President Nixon was largely orchestrated by Senator Edward Kennedy to reverse the left-repudiating 1972 election and serve Kennedy's presidential ambitions. This coup led to Communist victory in Vietnam, toppling dominoes in Southeast Asia, and encouragement to left revolutionary movements worldwide. It also allowed Kennedy and his liberal media allies to identify the tragic Vietnam War not with President John F. Kennedy, who committed the first 17,000 armed troops there, but with Republican President Nixon.
A Guide to the Political Left

30 posted on 08/09/2006 8:57:44 AM PDT by Milhous (Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream.)
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To: Milhous

>> The coup that overthrew President Nixon <<

Can you call it a coup when the President resigns?


37 posted on 08/09/2006 9:47:14 AM PDT by gondramB (We will have peace, when you and all your works have perished and the works of your dark master)
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To: Milhous

They also don't have absolute media control over the flow of news anymore, and a Soviet Union financing the most radical of leftists....

While Soros IS financing large parts of the left movement, it's not getting ANYWHERE near the traction of the 60's movements..

Racism and hatred simply doesn't sell as well as free love, free drugs, and no draft...


43 posted on 08/09/2006 11:09:46 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Terrorism-You Reap What You Appease........)
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