Do today's Repukelicans make Nixon seem downright reasonable?

[kratos12]

Depressing thought, isn't it.

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Way too many Democrats make Nixon seem downright reasonable.

[mike_c]

13. +1

Yep.

[Fumesucker]

31. + a whole bunch..

[Dr.Phool]

15. +10

I told my Goldwater Republican dad the other day, I never thought I'd live long enough to miss Nixon.

Well actually, I did miss him. We threw thousands of dead rats at him at his second coronation. I don't think I connected.

[Sherman A1]

21. +1000

[progressoid]

26. +100000

[DJ13]

2. Even many of todays Dem "leaders" make Nixon seem reasonable

He would be painted as a flaming lib in todays political climate.

[saltpoint]

3. No. He predated their corruptions of spirit but was just

as spiritually corrupt.

Plus he was a paranoid racist asshole as well.

[Dawson Leery]

4. On domestic policy only.

Foreign policy, Nixon was a warmonger just as the current neo-cons are.
Recall the coup against the democratically elected government of Chile, on
Tuesday September, 11 1973.

[kratos12]

6. Even when it comes to foreign policy

Nixon at least showed some common sense signing SALT I (or was it II?) and trying to improve relations to China. Todays rethugs hate everyone and everything including their fellow citizens.

[Dawson Leery]

7. True. Still, Nixon still was a hard core imperialist,

just as today's neo-cons are.

[EFerrari]

23. The empire stumbles on no matter who is in office.

It's not limited in any way to the Neo Cons, as Honduras shows.

[RKP5637]

5. Yeah, when you look around at these Repukelicans today, it's unbelievable to say,

but they almost make Nixon look like a liberal IMO. Nixon, at minimal, was a highly intelligent person. These Repukelicans of today are damn fools and many are simply crazy uneducated know-nothing fools.

[Turbineguy]

8. Nixon would be considered

a flaming liberal in this day and age.

[TheKentuckian]

17. As much as the fuckers LOVE them some Reagan, at this point he has drifted into "RINO" territory

John McShame and Lindsay Graham are now "liberal Republicans" and DeMint is middle of the road.

Snowe job and Vodka Collins are nearly and cross into socialists in TeaPubliKlan eyes.

Nixon would almost be a Marxist to these fucks but being white they might refrain from going quite there on him since white pols to Obama's left aren't quite labeled that way, even Bernie.

[underpants]

18. Yep

I have seen the list before but here is from memory

ended a war (slowly and dickishly yes but the plan was to end it)
Clean Water Act signed
Clean Air Act signed
Voting for 18 year olds (26th Amendment) - Republicans hate people voting



Okay I googled it

Saved America’s environment by creating the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Air Act while approving the most sweeping environmental legislation in history.
* Simultaneously reformed welfare and brought in serious new civil-rights laws and agencies for minorities, women, the handicapped and children.
* Proclaimed the first official U.S. Earth Day/Earth Week in 1971.
* Totally reformed the government’s relationship with Native Americans, bringing new self-determination and civil rights to U.S. tribes while saving such Indian natural wonders as Pyramid Lake — the tribe even renamed its capital “Nixon.”
* Was even described as “the Abraham Lincoln of the Indian people.”
* Loved those Chinese communists.
* Spent more on social programs than defense!
* Fathered screaming ex-socialist lunatic Mojo Nixon.

Read more at Wonkette: http://wonkette.com/227457/richard-nixon-americas-greatest-liberal/#ixzz0xMok3s4B

[Kerrytravelers]

9. I could be wrong here, but didn't the EPA begin under his administration?

Again, I could be wrong here.

[saltpoint]

11. It was conceived mostly in the U.S. Senate

and only when it was a matter of obvious convenience to Nixon did he endorse it.

During his administration, yes, but not with his true blessing.

[Kerrytravelers]

14. Got it. Thanks for the info on that.

:hi:

[earthside]

10. No. Nixon 'red baited ' ...

... just like Beck and Company are stirring-up lies with this 'Obama is a socialist' nonsense -- and just like today's Repuglicans and Teabaggers are agitating hate against Muslims.

Nixon was still the worst president we ever had; followed up closely by Junior Bush.

[Dr.Phool]

16. Red-baiting. Professional lefting? What's the difference?

[abq e streeter]

12. I seem to remember reading Michael Moore calling him our last liberal president

obviously with some degree of tongue in cheek irony etc, but he also went on to use some specifics to explain why he said that. Nixon was a vile, paranoid, racist criminal who set us down this road of stripping away the constitution and yet, as Moore pointed out, he did a lot of things that would put him squarely amid the mainstream of the Democratic Party these days, and in fact, as others already pointed out, would in fact be bolder and more progressive than many "Democrats" these days. A pretty fucking sad commentary on how ignorant, extreme and flat out insane the republican party has become, and equally pathetic to see how much gutless enabling has been coming from the 'leadership' of our party in not forcefully standing up to the ever more openly and proudly ignorant, and genuinely fascist agenda of the republicans.

[davidwparker]

19. Yes

[Golden Raisin]

20. And Ike would be a commie.

Seriously, I was around back then and am stunned to see how drastically far to the right the entire political spectrum has shifted over the last 40-50 years. Very scary. Very depressing.

[lpbk2713]

22. I think Everett Dirksen would be disgusted with today's GOP.

IMHO I really think he would not want to be a rethuglican in today's climate.

[EFerrari]

24. Goldwater couldn't stand the sight of them

and when I was a kid, he was Satan at our house.

[Douglas Carpenter]

25. today's Republicans are starting to make George W. Bush look reasonable

Just as Reagan made Nixon look reasonable and George W. Bush made Reagan looks reasonable. Just how far to the right can they move?

[kratos12]

29. Just

stop that! lol

[notesdev]

27. He's owed an apology

His very name evokes corruption, but these days, in places high and low, politics are routinely and even openly conducted in a more corrupt manner. If Nixon did in 2010 actions like those that caused his downfall in the 1970s, the story may not even have made it past the police blotter or maybe a blog or two; it would be un-noteworthy and unexceptional.

[FarLeftRage]

28. No, never... not in my book.

he was first and foremost a repuKKKE of the most vile kind... a racist, a homophobe and an intolerant bastard.

If you want to see how "reasonable" he was, please read "Nixonland" for all the details.


Here: http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282522992&sr=1-1

This nation is what it is today, because of that worthless piece of shit.

[mmonk]

30. A lot of politicians from both parties do. Republicans today are just

plain and simple extreme and crazy.