I never thought I'd type these words...

[jmowreader]

but I really miss honest, straightforward Republican politicians like Richard Nixon.

[Solly Mack]

1. uh....

[TheCML]

5. Nixon?

Really?

[rurallib]

2. Eisenhower maybe.

[trumad]

3. Snarf--

I guess his "I'm not a crook" doesn't count.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Neither does paranoia , I guess.

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

4. At least everyone knew from the get-go what Nixon was about

I miss him too.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Maybe Warren Rudman??

[geckosfeet]

7. dayum - I suppose it's relative but nIxoN was lying POS

[jhrobbins]

20. Yeah, I agree - as much as I don't like this administration, I don't

miss Nixon. Don't get me wrong, I still think the Bush administration is the worst in history, and I guess the Nixon one is second. I'm sure historians might nominate someone else, but these affected us, so I'm calling them the worst

[geckosfeet]

21. I agree there - except dems had a backbone and a majority with niXon

[jeepnstein]

8. I had that very conversation...

with a "real" republican the other night. He's 94 and sorely misses the days. The fringe is out on both sides now and it's getting out of hand.

[ret5hd]

10. Yeah, Obama's so "fringe"...

:eyes:

[jeepnstein]

12. Nope, I never said that...

I said that there are some elements attaching themselves to both campaigns and projecting their agendas onto the candidates. It happens all the time but this time it's getting really raw in some places.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Out of hand only applies to the republican party and they have been there forever!

[jeepnstein]

19. I wish it were so.

We need to keep a handle on some of our activists. It happens every election. I remember a well-intentioned young man who threw a skunk into Bush HQ four years ago. He though he was being funny, and I must admit I laughed quite hard, but it caused a lot of damage.

That's all I'm saying. We need to be the Party that doesn't get down in that gutter with this amateur hour stuff.

[jeepnstein]

25. Update!!!!!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D940VEM01&show_article=1

Looks like her story is falling apart. I'd like to kick her while she's down but it's just not my style.

[LanternWaste]

30. There was neither evidence nor proof...

There was neither evidence nor proof that the individual who placed the skunk in the southern OH GOP office was in fact, a Democrat or a Democratic activist.

Most likely, as our dear little friends in GOP are quite apt to do, it was another instance in their long litany of self-inflicted wounds designed to be blamed on the Democrats...

So it begs the question-- precisely which of "our" activists are you referring to?

[Winterblues]

9. Honest like in...~... "I am not a Crook" ...~...Nixon?

:shrug: Okay whatever....

[jmowreader]

22. Compared to the Republicans of today, Nixon was a paragon of decency

In the 1960s and 1970s, Richard Nixon was the hagfish of American politics. Nixon was so bad that Hunter Thompson was forced to publish a written apology: "Richard Nixon does not, as far as I know, fuck pigs or sell used cars with cracked blocks. Nor is he corrupt beyond the ability of man to describe him."

Compare Nixon to the last three Republican presidents. Ronald Reagan was 100x the crook Nixon was, Poppy was 10x the crook Reagan was and Junior is so corrupt you need calculus to figure out the gap between father and son.

[LunaSea]

11. ..

[Kaleko]

15. Ha! That just about says it all.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Nixon?

:crazy:

[KamaAina]

17. DUzy!!!

:rofl:

[Jane Austin]

18. Remember the Guaranteed Minimum Income?

Was that Nixon's idea or just during his time?

[johnnyrocket]

23. An I never thought I'd ever agree with that statement.

[ddeclue]

24. Nixon at least had the decency to hire burglars to wiretap the DNC

Bush does this sort of thing under the color of law.

Doug D.

[guitar man]

26. Brilliant bit of satire!!

K&R :D

[Dogtown]

27. You do realize Nixon was the 1st

of the Neocon Dynasty, don't you?

The last honest republican was Ike.

[Beam Me Up]

28. I understand the sentiment but I can't agree.

I'll never miss NIXON, REGAN, BUSH 1, and certainly not *. EVER.

[TheKentuckian]

29. Tricky Dick would be a paragon of virtue

relative to the rank and file Republican today and also would be seen to be such a leftist that they would throw him out of the party.

This shouldn't at all be dismissed because such sad commentary demonstrates how low the GOP has gone from one of the worst points in our history. I mean you can literally look around this country and can honestly say "Nixon wouldn't have allowed this shit!" and that is beyond sad.

[Bake]

31. Goldwater, maybe. Not Nixon.

Although, in fairness, Tricky Dick is a freakin' saint and statemsman compared to Li'l Bush.

Bake

[lonestarnot]

32. WTF is wrong with you people? Nixon Goldwater hmmmmf

:puke:

[fla nocount]

33. Goldwater was the one who picked the short straw...

and told Nixon to step down or the Party was going to take him down.

As a member of the Young Republicans, I was 11 I think, I attended a campaign speech given by Mr. Goldwater, this was one ugly minded man who claimed late in his life, like George Wallace, that it was all an act to get elected.