[tpaine]

An old fashioned liberal that liked Nixon?

-- Hmmmm, maybe you got locked in that Kelvinator a bit to long back in the 50's. - Or was it an Admiral?

[harrowup]

Nixon was a brilliant strategist who let his emotions control him. He was adverse to taking advice and drank too much...but he never flinched from his duty which at the time was perilous. Personally he had to fend off a very sore bunch of losers in the media from Cronkite to Bradlee to say nothing of a hostile Congress...and the Kennedy Choir singing all that bullshit about Camelot.

The bottom line however, is that he was a tough anti-communist and was not an appeaser. The Democratic leadership then...and now was filled to the brim with too many star gazers. Hubert Humphrey was a beautiful man, a wonderful and kind gentleman, but he just didn't have the strength or determination to beat the soviets. The Democrats still ran better state houses and city halls...and well...I don't know anymore where the lines are...I'm either a conservative liberal, a liberal conservative or just an old poop who has seen too many good people die for all political ends.