Posted on 10/07/2012 4:39:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
From your lips...
Yes, Nixon thought that the electorate was so far to the left that he had to be also; Reagan saw them as far more right of center, much as he was.
the youth are actually more liberal today...yes it's true...look at old voting stats and educate yourself
we are barely holding on
folks here as usual in their ignorance will hive five when Romney likely wins in a few weeks
oblivious to the fact that as the years progress our ability to hold off the third world immigration demands and the utter leftist tilt of our culture will become harder and harder to hold back
this election we are nearing the point where we have to have nearly 2/3rds of WHITES vote in one direction to hold off the other demographic groups
even that will become not enough in time
we voluntarily let this happen...we either as a nation surrender and go leftist and even more politically correct about race or we actually fight down the road
because when the minority really does become the majority...does anyone here truly believe they will show such magnanimity towards those they feel formerly oppressed them?
it will be the second Reconstruction and the end of America as we know it.
i have watched this happen for many years
the Silent Majority battened the hatches
The GOP and the Scoop Jackson and Hard Hat Hippie Hating dems held the hard left back
the Moral Majority pushed back...
now we have the ever dwindling Majority doing the task and the wave against us grows bigger and bigger and we get smaller
we cannot turn enough of the other side in time...not with the culture we live in
people get ready and don't be sedated by a win by a milquetoast defender...it's just a small tactical win in a very long war..a war which we are short on troops and ammo and giving up territory daily
Will challenger Mitt Romney win a first term as President, because he provides a similar alternative?
No. If Romney wins it will be because voters have lost faith in Obama on the economy. It might be like 1980 or 1992 or 1976 or 1932.
But even if the election will be about "left wing cultural chaos," the relevant comparison would not be to 1972, but to 1968, when the challenger scraped in because of social issues, rather than to the landslide reelection of an incumbent.
IMO, the 1968 election was about the several “long hot summers” of riots in the big cities - Watts, 1965, Detroit and Newark 1967, Harlem, 1964 - etc. Nixon was the ‘law and order’ president.
Nixon easily won the support of the youth, and the youth were the most supportive of the Vietnam War.
“Law and Order” was the “social issue” then, before abortion, gay marriage, and the rest.
A fundamental question:
Is America ours?
Or is it "the world's"?
“One more point about Watergate: its very possible the whole thing was an entrapment set up by the dems”
It wasn’t that at all. The Watergate burglary was hatched and set in motion by John Dean all on his own. He wanted to recover a ‘date book’ that belonged to a prostitution ring being run out of the DNC offices. The reason Dean wanted that book is due to the fact that his girlfriend/fiance Mo Dean was in that book, because she had been working as a high priced call girl when Dean met her. Nixon had the bad fortune of turning over his own investigation to the very man who had plotted the breakin. And when the Watergate Committee began closing in on the White House Dean ran to them and blamed Nixon in order to save his own worthless hide.
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