[cantfindagoodscreenname]

That said, if Newt is elected President expect a return to the Nixon Era of the GOP

I was not yet a teenager when Nixon was president, so my memory of this time is poor. What specifically do you mean by this?

[Zevonismymuse]

Richard Nixon was a brilliant man but he had character issues. Nixon became increasingly paranoid and self-destructed. He also began drinking heavily under pressure. His cover-up of Watergate destroyed the Republican Party for the remainder of the 1970s and gave us Jimmy Carter. A lot of good Republicans lost their seats because of Nixon's behavior.

Like many politicians, Newt has an inflated ego. He also has a tendency to snap when he gets his feelings hurt. When he was Speaker he was carrying on an affair very similar to the one President Clinton was having with an intern. It was their fellow Republicans in both cases, Nixon and Newt, who demanded their resignations.