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Could This Be Like Nixon In 1972?
Townhall.com ^ | October 7, 2012 | Austin Hill

Posted on 10/07/2012 4:39:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 10/07/2012 4:40:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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In 1972 over 80% of the American population was White and of European descent. Today, according to some demographic reports, Whites make up as little as 74% of the population....

There has got to be a national debate as to whether we want to turn this trend around; of course, we'll be labelled racists for raising the issue.

2 posted on 10/07/2012 4:43:03 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: Kaslin
40 years ago you had this guy at the helm of the main stream media....



COMMIE BASTARD !

He's one of the reasons why we lost and pulled out of the Vietnam War...
3 posted on 10/07/2012 4:53:28 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Salvey

So many things are different that it’s hard to follow the parallel this article is trying to make.

As you say, the demographics have changed considerably. Also, the percentage of people on the dole. Also, the dedication of the media to be a propaganda arm for the Democrats. Not to mention McGovern was a challenger, Obama is an incumbent.

I think this article is grasping at straws to make its point.


4 posted on 10/07/2012 4:55:12 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: Kaslin

BTTT


5 posted on 10/07/2012 4:55:43 AM PDT by varon (I remember when America was American.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

+1


6 posted on 10/07/2012 4:59:24 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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To: samtheman

Agree. Also, bringing up Nixon is usually a bad idea. Irony is the Watergate break in was completely unnecessary, not were any “dirty tricks”, to win that election. It was completely in the bag. Why cheat or, worse, commit illegal actions in any campaign much less one youve already won? Nixon remains an obsessive boogeyman character for leftists.


7 posted on 10/07/2012 5:03:01 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

You are so right about Watergate. So unnecessary. Also, so minor compared to the history of election-cheating on the Democrat side.

Watergate was a propaganda coup for the left, nothing more.


8 posted on 10/07/2012 5:06:35 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: TigerClaws

One more point about Watergate: it’s very possible the whole thing was an entrapment set up by the dems who fed false information to Nixon’s brother about supposed “damning evidence” in the Watergate offices... the dems correctly figuring that the Nixon people were stupid enough to go for the bait.


9 posted on 10/07/2012 5:08:26 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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In the 1972 election...you had a very liberal Nixon (most Big Government programs created under his admin....opening of Communist China) against a very liberal McGovern.

1972 was not an election of right and left....it was an election of left and very left. McGovern scared a lot more people than Nixon did


10 posted on 10/07/2012 5:09:26 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
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To: Kaslin

72 was the election that made the label “ Liberal” so toxic the left still has to run from it . That’s when they put on the mask and began to pretend to be “ moderate” , “ centrist” , and later “ progressive”. To hide their REAL position.


11 posted on 10/07/2012 5:12:42 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence again.t foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kaslin

And yet, we sit idly by hoping for a “savior”, just like ‘60/’70 era. The left burned our cities, stoned our police, burned draft cards, thumbed their noses at every sense of law and order, humiliated our troops, denied justice for terrorists and promoted socialism. An we did nothing.

The left today is circumventing every judicial/legislative precedence and those in congress charged with protecting and defending those very principles do nothing. We spend our energies whining to one another on the internet rather than suffer the inconvenience of courage.

Why do we expect the outcome to be any different?


12 posted on 10/07/2012 5:13:57 AM PDT by vet7279
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To: American Constitutionalist

100% correct....I hope he’s enjoying his special room in hell.


13 posted on 10/07/2012 5:43:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TigerClaws
Do they really want to bring up: " Irony is the Watergate BIG OVER THE TOP SCANDALS like: Benghazigate, Fast & Furious, Campaign Fund Raising gate break in was completely unnecessary "


There now, fixed..
14 posted on 10/07/2012 5:52:30 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Salvey
Whites make up as little as 74% of the population.... There has got to be a national debate as to whether we want to turn this trend around

What may happen is 1) war with China leads to an explosive increase in American robotics and automation, 2) after the war we no longer need cheap immigrant labor because the robots will work for less, 3) automation will happen in law enforcement leading unfortunately to a police state. No one will be here that shouldn't be here, 4) people inclined to raise children will displace the vain/envious/selfish leftists that are breeding themselves out of existence.

15 posted on 10/07/2012 7:33:43 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: TigerClaws
Nixon remains an obsessive boogeyman character for leftists.

Some of Nixon's accomplishments as president:

Senator Hugh Scott (R-Pa.)a liberal, said that under Nixon, the conservatives got the conservatives got the rhetoric, but the liberals got the action. Alabama governor George Wallace, the American Independent Party's standard bearer in 1968, said that Nixon ran for president on his platform but ran the country on Hubert Humphrey's.

Why doesn't the Left consider Nixon a hero? Why doesn't the Left consider Nixon a hero?

16 posted on 10/07/2012 7:50:03 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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Thank you for that nice summary of Nixon's liberalism.

I was just having a debate with a very liberal friend about de-funding PBS and they said I should be for taxpayer funding because Nixon did it.

I guess they thought if Nixon did it, I should be all for it.

All I could do was laugh. Your list would have come in handy.

17 posted on 10/07/2012 8:03:34 AM PDT by ConservativeLawyer (We own this country.)
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To: Fiji Hill
Thank you for that nice summary of Nixon's liberalism.

I was just having a debate with a very liberal friend about de-funding PBS and they said I should be for taxpayer funding because Nixon did it.

I guess they thought if Nixon did it, I should be all for it.

All I could do was laugh. Your list would have come in handy.

18 posted on 10/07/2012 8:03:34 AM PDT by ConservativeLawyer (We own this country.)
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To: ConservativeLawyer

It must be that liberal Nixon list that persuaded Julie to campaign for Obama but most likely “white guilt”. A CA politician named Joe Shell told the truth about Nixon in 1962 long before his presidency.


19 posted on 10/07/2012 8:37:58 AM PDT by Theodore R. (`)
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To: Fiji Hill

Nixon, in the 1950 California senate race, defeated Helen Ghahagan Douglas. Nixon accurately labeled her a communist “fellow traveler.”

To this day, the left cannot talk about this race without breaking down into slobbering fits.

Watergate was the payback.


20 posted on 10/07/2012 8:44:37 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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