“Tell me Nixon didn’t conspire to cover up Watergate!”
Whenever Watergate is mentioned, rational people should immediately come back with the facts. To wit:
Both parties wine and dine moneyed citizens as part of their efforts to obtain donations. They try to get the citizen’s head spinning by inviting him to any event that will put him in the company of the famous and powerful.
At that particular time, the demonrats had expanded this itinerary to include treating potential donors to the services of prostitutes, paid for out of DNC money. You know, Joe Sixpack’s ten bucks that he contributed to have a voice in our representative republic.
That was a felony. Actually, each instance was a separate felony.
Some of Nixon’s subordinates, without his knowledge, decided to try and obtain documentary proof of this, with the intention of exposing the dims’ felonious behavior. Unfortunately for America, the people of South Viet Nam, and mankind in general, they were not practiced and proficient criminals. As one might have guessed, they made a hash of it.
Nixon’s subordinates, then, were guilty of conspiracy to expose multiple felonies involving the improper use of DNC funds to pay prostitutes.
When his subordinates finally told him the truth, Nixon decided it would be best to cover up this trifling indiscretion. This was entirely reasonable, in view of the heinous crimes that the media had covered up for Roosevelt, maybe Truman, certainly Kennedy and Johnson.
Later, they even covered up murder for a sitting president.
The demonrats, knowing that they had the media in their pocket, decided to lie, lie, lie, and spin, spin, spin, and artificially escalated this tempest in a teapot to the status of a (barf alert) “constitutional crisis.”
They had a few reasons for knifing Nixon.
1. Nixon had been involved in the effort to root foreign agents of influence out of the State Department and other government posts, which was an unforgivable sin against the Evil one.
2. The huge cloud of dust they raised with their hysterical blather about Nixon’s “crimes” completely obscured the reason for the break in: multiple demonrat felonies, involving a vice that most of America still found repugnant.
3. Nixon’s Vietnamization program had succeeded, and he was on the brink of Peace with Honor in Viet Nam. That would have been a ghastly defeat for the left.
4. And, of course, a hodge-podge of obvious reasons: To embarrass the GOP, to demoralize the Silent Majority, to move the demonrats further to the left, and to forestall any good things Nixon might have done in a second term, with reelection off the table. You can probably name others.
With their customary shameless dishonesty, the left has elevated the Watergate incident to near-mythical status, like the assassination of Abe Lincoln or the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. This needs to be contradicted with the truth at every opporknockety.
I think it’s important, because every time a lib realizes that one of the left’s axiomatic propositions is nothing but lies and deceit, the possibility exists that he will begin to question other planks in their platform.
We don't even have to go back to Nixon: Fast & Furious is a good example of a conspiracy [in execution, cover-up, and 'investigation' all-three] or Benghazi [there's no way all the weirdness there can be explained by mere incompetence/miscommunication (and have no real resolution/punishment)].
Ah, but we don't even have to get directly into politics! Some conspiracies are, shall we say, functional in nature.
One example I like is from New Mexico, which has a constitution that prohibits any law from abridging "the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, and furthermore explicitly preempts city & counties from it as well: No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms... and yet the state, county, and municipal courthouses all prohibit weapons therein... even if the citizen, not accused of any crime, is required by the law to be there (jury duty).
Inquiry into the validity of such rules invariably leads to (a) dismissal, and/or (b) justification/rationalization*, and/or (c) redirection**. All disempowering*** and designed [if not consciously then unconsciously] to preserve powers assumed by more local governments that is actually barred to them.
* i.e. "we don't allow guns on school grounds either." (Despite that also violating the law.)
** The state rep refers to the AG, the AG refers to the State's Supreme Court, the Supreme Court refers to the Bar, the Bar refers to lawyers...
*** You apparently cannot even challenge such illegitimate, contraconstitutional 'laws' w/o violating them... but to do so is to implicitly acknowledge that 'law's' authority and bind yourself to a position of weakness: that of the accused.
Great post.
Nixon was a world leader who solved “unsolvable” problems. His transformation of LBJ's “morass” in Vietnam and his outreach to China demonstrated his strategic vision. At home he ended military conscription and founded the all volunteer military, a measure that began defusing the antiwar movement and civil unrest.
In Obama we have a $400,000-a-year event planner.
Thank you! I did not know most of those details. Very enlightening.
Thank you for that information! I take time to defend Senator Joe McCarthy whenever I can. I will add this to my list of corrections.