Posted on 11/03/2018 6:02:24 PM PDT by Nextrush
Agree, Chainmail, Nixon was an excellent person and had the makings of an excellent president. When you think of why he left office....it’s crazy today after the idiocy of Clinton who was left in place after diddling interns in the Oval Office.
Watergate was nothing compared with the shenanigans and/or ineffectualness of every single democrat since then.
Personally, I loved Linebacker I, and moreso Number II. which caused them to stop arguing about the shape of the table.
The entrenched rats could not stand it.
My issue with Nixon was his “secret” plan to deal with Viet Nam.
Total Opaque BS.
My issues with Nixon were his wage and price controls that moved us into a much more regulated economy and his final steps in removing the US from the gold standard.
I think Bush framed Nixon. The Plumbers were all CIA/Bay of Pigs operatives. They may have assassinated President Kennedy.
I saw George Wallace on The Boston Common in 1968. I think President Trump uses Wallace methods to get The Left to go crazy. Wallace was as funny as any comedian I’ve seen. He was at Norm McDonald-level in withered hecklers.
Historians and Democrats, redundant I know, won’t admit that George Wallace was wrapping up the 1972 Democrat nomination when he was shot in Laurel, MD. He was leading in the delegate count and he was favored in the MD and Michigan primaries which would precluded any other contender to use the final primary, California, to win.
Incumbent Nixon (R) vs. Wallace (D). And people think Trump-Clinton was the worst choices.
My problem with Nixon was cozying up to Mao. He single-handedly legitimized the worlds worst mass-murderer and gave a lifeline to the Reds. He also instituted the imperial presidency—unconstitutionally establishing Federal supremacy over the states: 55 mph speed limits, the EPA, Title IX, the DoEd, OSHA, affirmative action, Endangered Species Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, pushed the 26th Amendment, etc.
https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/president/executive-orders
Nixon was no conservative. He was a flawed man who spent his life seeking the accolades reserved for JFK. Ultimately rehabilitated by his leftist, globalist friends, he rose from criminal to “senior statesman.” His boogeyman’s reputation underpins the Left’s moralistic strategies even today.
Nixon embodies the Left’s perfect Republican: one who furthered the causes of big government, environmentalism and communism while retaining his role as a perennial villain.
For establishment Republicans, he remains the model maligned statesman—the epitome of the establishment cuckhold.
Actually,the 2018 mid terms seem to be a lot like 1972, when after Nixon beat McGovern the elite was stunned because they did not know anyone who boted for Nixon then Trump today. Rush pointed ouy that charlie cook analyses on demd taking the house is because in a speech charlie touted that he doesnt know any women who would vote republican due to a good economy because the women he knows all hate trump
Similar, 1964.
My parents borrowed a TV (portable, B&W) so that we could watch the Apollo 11 coverage.
I was 5 and remember the launch and the moon landing, which for me happened in the morning (in Alaska).
Great article. Thanks.
would there have been any penalty for Wallace’s electoral delegates to vote for someone else, regardless of any deal ?
I want to visit Montana next summer.
I hope to get out there.
A handful of states and popular votes could have switched things in 1948 for Harry Truman in his famed win, not to mention Nixon versus Kennedy in 1960 when JFK beat Nixon by similar numbers in the electoral college.
I think there’s some spin on all that.
But this notion of holding back votes to delay knowing the winner Huntley mentions in the video is something to consider.
Very well put, especially this: “Nixon embodies the Left’s perfect Republican: one who furthered the causes of big government, environmentalism and communism while retaining his role as a perennial villain.”
That description also fits George Bush, George Bush, and John Mccain. I would bet it would have included Mitt Romney as well as all of the other candidates for President in 2016 with the possible exception of Ted Cruz (I say “possible” because the way he played fast and loose with birthright citizenship destroyed his integrity in my eyes).
No - it is my view that the recent laws requiring electors to vote for the pledged candidate are unconstitutional.
However as I understand it, Wallace wanted a deal. He knew he would lose leverage if the election went to the House.
Yeah, I doubt Bush was involved in framing Nixon. John Dean is the more likely candidate for framing Nixon, if anyone.
Well, I’ll give you Mao Zedong, that was definitely a very bad decision on his part. I’m not going to comment on the EPA, though. Let’s just say there’s a reason why “crud” existed, and that’s the reason why the EPA was even created.
As far as whether was Nixon, he was at least conservative enough to be Ike’s VP, if that’s anything to go by. Certainly he was closer to a conservative than, say, John Lindsay, who despite being an explicit Republican managed to ruin New York with far left policies.
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