Democrats For Nixon

[WileEcoyote]

Uh just kidding. Clearly Nixon was evil and had a warped view of the world.

However he was at least COMPETENT! With Tricky Dick you had a guy who was bright, articulate and understood politics and Congress. I'm gonna guess he was well read too. He sure was one hell of a poker player. The kind who would have won the "World Series Of Poker" a few times.

Now no one here would ascribe the above qualities to the current idiot in chief...

Any of us old enough here to remember "CREP'S" "Democrats For Nixon"? Probably the'72 campaign I can't remember exactly which one but it was a total sham. the typical GOP "Dirty tricks" campaign. Donald Segretti was likely at the head of it. Or some other bottom feeder. All the people whom Karl Rove learned his trade from.

And yet despite his huge character flaws Nixon was known for at least a few good things. Well one or two for sure the others debatable.

Banned use of Compound 1080 (Sodium Flouroacteate) a "varmint killer" but essentially a weapon of mass destruction.

Implemented the EPA.

Those are the only two I can think of that most of us would agree on. The only reason he did the above was because he had a full Democratic Congress pushing him for action.

The other reflects personal bias: Giving Golda Meir the F-14 jets to win the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

My kids are the result of an Israeli woman who may have been killed had the Arab forces destroyed Israel in 1973. Thus personal bias explained...

We could say possibly that Nixon's travel to China was smart. Again: He at least UNDERSTOOD the concept of diplomacy.

Nixon may have helped establish the "Death Valley National Monument" but again I could be wrong. It's a National Park now anyway thanks to the end of the 1994 Congress (and the activism of WileECoyote in small part).

If you've read so far here's what Tricky Dick had to say about Fred Thompson:

Moreover, new transcripts from the Nixon White House tapes reveal that the Nixon administration regarded Thompson as a useful idiot -- "dumb as hell," in President Nixon's words, but "friendly." At one point, the White House counsel told Nixon that Thompson insisted he wanted to help the president more than his patron and boss on the committee, Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn, would let him.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3447219&page=1

Dick: Some of us Democrats actually DO miss you.

(Wiley chuckles)