>>Yeahg, well lets not make the mistake Republicans did in 1968 - choosing Nixon instead of Reagan.<<
Thinking about that... I wonder where the country would be if that been no Watergate and no Jimmy Carter.
We would still own the Panama Canal instead of the Chinese.
The Ayatollah Komeini would die in obscurity in France.
Iran would have been the first Muslim Democracy instead of Iraq. The Russians would not have invaded Afghanistan leading to the formation of the Taliban. And the Dot Com bubble still would have burst.
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