I didn’t have comments open when I posted sumpin’ disparaging about Nixon last week and Claudia took it upon herself to chastise me. Nixon was a flawed man, but he had more character than BJ and Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade combined. BJ’s sins were far more egregious than Nixon’s (FBI files and the IRS and those are but two of the scandals) but he had a good economy and the LSM on his side. Nixon had neither. Obumbler’s sins already are worse than Nixon’s, but he’s black and a Dimocrat so he’ll prolly weather the storm. Republicans hold their politicians to a higher standard than Dimocrats. Prime example: The Floater, the “Lion of the Senate” . Just remember one thing. Unlike Benghazi (or the Floater’s Oldsmobile), no one died in Watergate. Saw a link to this post on Instapundit.
I protest. Will no one stand up for Richard Nixon? Richard Nixon was a combat veteran, a staunch and brave anti-Communist, a man who took on the liberal establishment and at times his own party’s as well, a leader who often thought for himself and had the courage of his convictions, a president who assembled a first-rate Cabinet and one who—while flawed both in character and in policy judgment—usually tried to confront the real problems and deal with challenges of his times. Richard Nixon led neither the country nor his own administration from behind.I worked for Richard Nixon (well, I worked for two months in the Nixon White House in 1970 as a summer intern). I voted for Richard Nixon (in 1972, my first vote, against George McGovern—and one about which I have no regrets). I knew Richard Nixon (very slightly—I met him on a few occasions in groups in the late 1970s and the 1980s, and then a couple of times when I worked for Vice President Quayle). And so I feel obliged to rise to Richard Nixon’s defense, and to say, with all due respect, to our current president: Barack Obama, you’re no Richard Nixon.
Bill Kristol? Of course, Democrat-lite in the chattering class would stick up for a disgraced Democrat-lite president run amok.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/19/bill_kristol_tea_partiers_wont_mind_more_taxes
And, Kristol’s Bee-esS about Nixon “a staunch and brave anti-Communist”? Try February 21, 1972 with Trickie Dick rubbing elbows with Mao Zedong in Beijing.
Damn shame Nixon returned to America.
Reagan (God bless him) was an anomaly in the GOP, and loathed by the chattering class, of which, is the Nelson Rockefeller standard.
AD – What Nixon did was drive a wedge between the USSR and China. It was a masterstroke of diplomacy and it helped set the stage for Reagan winning the Cold War. What I blame on Nixon is the EPA. And, if the Dimocrats hadn’t hated him so much, he would have given them socialized medicine almost 40 years before Obummercare.
I suppose one could assert the masterstroke of diplomacy position. Then again, one could also assert that Nixon helped set the stage for Clinton signing commie China to normal trade status in October 2000, too.
I’d also add to the list of crap Nixon is responsible: Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. Yes, the yearly $600 shakedown on property owners mortgages that are alleged to flood, if not change the flood maps, for a gummint mandated program that is now $18B+ in debt.
Bottom line for me is – Nixon was a Big Government Internationalist, a crook, and a liar.
We needed something like the EPA back then. The crap we did environmentally was criminal.
The problem is the rat bastard commies that have run the agency since about 1990. The pendulum has swung so far in one direction it may take dismantling the agency and starting over to fix it.
Why? Because of the Crying Italian commercials, and that bureaucrat EPA asshole J. Winston Porter, exploited the Mobro 4000?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
http://youtu.be/bs60OoMxNmY
Ya, it’s all bullshit right down the the phony Injun. However, the people do get the government they deserve.
William G. Milliken, and Trickie Dick Nixon, both moderate assholes, gave us the EPA.
Hi Cousin OSC,
It’s kinda weird for us folks that remember the situation back then (dead Lake Erie, flames on water) . . . compared to today’s situation where bureaucrats are arguing how many hundreds of billions we oughta spend for unproven risks.
Best Regards,
Gotta love our fiesty Canadian.
Thank you, Denny. I need to add very little to what you said and posted. I’m well satisfied with your appraisal of President Nixon’s diplomatic skills. As for the flaws…Ah! well, someone will always throw the first stone. But I, for one, will always rise to his defense. I will repeat, as often as necessary, that he was very unfairly treated by his own people. It’s a shame that nobody gave him support in those days, and that he is still spoken about in a derogatory and sarcastic way by Republicans. Not very encouraging to be an ex or future president in that party. God bless you all!
I appreciated what the Congresswoman from Wyoming said during Issa’s hearing the other day. Nixon had a spat with another batch of power brokers in DC. Obama is abusing the everyday citizenry, a far more egregious offense, not to mention a first.
We must remember, too, that Nixon had the good grace to resign rather than face impeachment. The Komrade Mother-f***ing Liar-in-Chief does not nor will he ever have the same good grace that Nixon had. Like Claudia, I also voted for Nixon. McGovern was the epitome of a political wimp. Also, Nixon got us out of VietNam, with our country’s tail between our legs, but at least we were out of that hell-hole.
Scottiebill – After McGovern got out of politics he tried to run a bed and breakfast in New England. It went bust. According to him, part of the problems were caused by big gummint rules and regulations. He lamented that he wished he had known about that during his political career. Sometimes a conservative really is a liberal who got mugged.
Not sure if I could comment on an earlier post but Conner did get let go from KMOV. You called it last week.
http://grouchyoldcripple.com/2013/05/news-from-my-home-town/
With policians, it’s basically “degrees” of criminality. Nixon doesn’t hold a candle to the current lib/dim/socialist regime. And even the worst of the current repubs pale in comparison to the fraud, deciet and anti-Americanism that makes up the platform of the dimocrat party.
Howdy Capt Mike ……
In the late 1960`s & early 1970`s in my spare time I was a Pennsylvania State Deputy Conservation Officer with the Fish Commission & spent a good deal of time on Lake Erie. This lake was nowhere near dead in the Eastern half of the basin being up to 216 feet deep. It was the western half quite shallow which was heavily polluted with agricultural run off & algae blooms.
It was the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio which caught fire to to the flammable surface pollution.
A lot of people & agencies try Toclaim credit for cleaning up Lake Erie.
It is true pollution control measures helped it was an invasive species the “ZEBRA MUSSEL” which filtered the water removing the majority of pollutants from Lake Erie waters restoring its clarity & purity to levels not seen since before 1900.