America needs a Democratic Richard Nixon

washingtonpost ^ | 08/21/2019 | mitch daniels

[ChicagoConservative27]

Sorry to be so obvious, but isn’t it clear that what the United States needs is a Democratic Richard M. Nixon?

No, not that one. We’ve had plenty of truth-bending, political dirty tricks and abuse of authority from both political parties over recent years.

I’m thinking of the “other” Nixon, the one who longed for a place in history and whose shrewd instinct for the political center produced: the Environmental Protection Agency; arms talks with the same Soviet Union he had built a career on denouncing; wage and price controls that violated every canon of his party’s philosophy; and, of course, the opening of relations with “Red” China.

That sort of Nixon, with a Democratic pedigree, is the figure our republic could use sometime soon.

The breakthrough needed now doesn’t involve China (though relations there certainly could be improved), it’s about national solvency. After radically swelling an already dangerous national debt under the most recent presidency, the nation is on track for a similar run-up during the next few years.

[Darteaus94025]

They had one - 0bama - complete with Watergate.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Dream On, Mitch. That party of Antifa fans would eat him alive.

[1Old Pro]

What, Pete Buttache doesn’t fit the bill? Perhaps sleep around Kamala, Socialist kook Bernie, Liz Indian Warren?
And Joe, does he even know the difference between Russia and China?

[tired&retired]

Crooked Hillary did a good imitation.

[GreyFriar]

Sorry Mitch, the Dems are now a socialist/communist party that want a Lenin/Stalin/Mao. And the ‘leadership’ don’t give a damn about the old line Dems who still vote for the new democrat socialist leaders out of .... who knows what/why.

[Obadiah]

Ever notice the Left is obsessed with two things,

Their worship of Kennedy
Their need to continue resurrecting the Nixon boogieman

Notice how we don’t need a lying impeached “Republican Clinton”, or a demagoguing, incompetent Republican Obama, or a warmongering, lying Lyndon Johnson. No, WaPo has will continue to beat that Nixon dead horse until the last 1960’s beatnick baby boomer is dead.

[OttawaFreeper]

And gee, to think that Dick’s immediate Democrat predecessor would make him look like a choir boy when it came to election and personal fraud, dirty tricks, identification and intimidation of political threats, racist remarks, behaviour towards women and other staff, etc.

[TakebackGOP]

President Trump is great.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

The Dems are using Nixon to bash President Trump? LOL

[ThePatriotsFlag]

They already have plenty of crooks to choose from, why do they need another? (A waste of a good crook, I think)

[JoSixChip]

We’ve had plenty of truth-bending, political dirty tricks and abuse of authority from both political parties over recent years

Notice the compost is starting to admit what obumber was doing with US intelligence agencies. But thier justification is that both parties have been doing it. I guess if you consider the rinos working with the dems and msm to destroy Trump representatives of the republican party, I'd have to agree. But conservatives had no part in any of this other then being the victims of a corrupt government.

[xkaydet65]

Kennedy??? Kennedy would be run out of the Dems so far and so fast he’d be at Warp 10 headed for the Delta Quadrant.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Mitch Daniels was the POTUS choice of George Will.

[BenLurkin]

Times ten

[mikey_hates_everything]

Mitch and Hillary sitting in a tree...

[blackdog]

The democrats are Nixonian.

[Brilliant]

They had one but she lost—Hillary Clinton.

[M Kehoe]

Mitch Daniels needs an enema.

5.56mm

[DoughtyOne]

So the paper that drove Nixon from office, now wants a Democrat Richard Nixon.

I think this is the pinnacle of hypocrisy.