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JHB

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10. Nixon wasn't "particularly conservative"?

Reply to alp227 (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 07:57 PM

Feb 2014

The guy whose redbaiting was second only to McCarthy? The guy whose loss in 1960 has been a bloody shirt for conservatives to waive since before I was born? Former boss of Roger Ailes, William Safire, and Pat Buchanan?
That Nixon?

If Nixon seems "not particularly conservative", it's because the political environment he had to operate in wasn't dominated by guanopath zealots on the right and "centrists" who in Nixon's day would have been the conservative end of the Rockefeller Republicans.

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