[chudogg]

Uh, he tried to cover up the Watergate break-in. Nixon was way ahead in polls, I never could understand why he thought he had to spy on ANY Demoncrat. I was only 9 at the time.

During this election, it was revealed that John Kerry had a mole in George Bush's election campaign, so that he could find out what his talking points were going to be. How is this any different than Nixon's campaign placing a bug in the Democrats office to find out the same thing?

[Jedidah]

The Bush campaign willingly employed the Kerry mole. The Nixon campaign burglarized a private office in the Watergate complex (and several others). Burglary is a crime.

The difference is a little matter of breaking the law, then paying the burglars to keep quiet, stashing the hush money in a foreign bank, and then ordering the CIA to call off the FBI investigation because it involved activity outside US borders.

And much, much more. What a mess.