Nixon still runs the GOP: How the white South dominates the party

[MisterP]

3. it was Reagan who encouraged the rightward canter

that makes Nixon to the left of Obama on a *lot* of stuff: and Sneaky Rick was no lefty! but people were more lefty by 1984 than 1979--they didn't like the Randroid-warmonger-televangelist-polluter axis at all; remember that Reagan left office very unpopular, and derided even by the GOP; the GOP's moved far to the right overall since 1994 (when they overthrew the smoke-filled-room guys who didn't want David Duke and Ollie North to win their primaries)

in fact 70% of Americans frankly share most of their positions with DU's lefty core and are sick of the people burbling about the demons who give you teh ghey--the Dems just decided to stop following up by 1994

and also remember that Haig thought Nixon was to soft on Communism (he and Heritage thought that about Reagan too, in fact)

history's fun! it shows you that the fundies' movement , and that fundie "theology" supports a flat Earth more than it does creationism (it also shows that Giordano Bruno was totally guilty and that the iodine-blodded technocrats are still a danger, but that's a different story)