(1) Pat is completely correct as to the historic comments that he makes--i.e. his history is correct.
(2) Those comments clearly show that Nixon was not a Conservative, but a moderate and, indeed, a "Liberal" on racial issues. Just in the comments on the Maryland campaign, you have the essential difference between a Conservative position and a liberal position. That "you're home is your castle," campaign by a Conservative Democrat was clearly the more Conservative position--both in 1968 and in 2002. Freedom has always consisted in the right to make your personal choices in your own affairs--rather than the politically popular choices.
But all of that said, one must applaud Pat's effort. He has clearly nailed a phoney. Bill Kristol is clearly not a Conservative; clearly not gifted with any insight as to how his antics will appear to observers, Left or Right; and as worthless to both Republican and Conservative interests, as he is useful to the Left.
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