Republican politics as usual

[overthebow]

How do conservatives rationalize this? President Nixon gave secret orders and when they were carried out, he allowed the general in charge to be fired and humiliated.

It was an election year and he didn't tell the truth about what happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmsLtmBuSsE

 

[Bert Notorius]

Sure, prop Nixon's dead body up and use him as a shining example.

 

[overthebow]

Sure, prop Nixon's dead body up and use him as a shining example.

Look at the people who got their start in the Nixon Administration.

 

[RoryN]

Nixon is buried close to where I live.

Around here, the general rationalization tactic for Nixon is the following: pretend 95% of what he did didn't happen, and talk about him as if he was the greatest man who ever walked the planet.

 

[overthebow]

Nixon is buried close to where I live.

Around here, the general rationalization tactic for Nixon is the following: pretend 95% of what he did didn't happen, and talk about him as if he was the greatest man who ever walked the planet.

Was that a Schoolhouse Rock song?

"Deny everthing,
Admit nothing,
Make counter-accusations..."

 

[mypoliticalalt]

He definitely knew China was going to be an issue.

 

[overthebow]

He definitely knew China was going to be an issue.

With 15% of the world's population, that wasn't hard to figure out.

He went to China as a way of deflecting attention from Watergate.

 

[mypoliticalalt]

With 15% of the world's population, that wasn't hard to figure out.

He went to China as a way of deflecting attention from Watergate.

Some bomb an asprin factory.

wag,wag.

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/byroninexile/nl/NL029-Aug1972.jpg

 

[Hiccup1]

So redemption is out of the question, I believe he came back and did some very good things with foreign policy.

 

[overthebow]

So redemption is out of the question, I believe he came back and did some very good things with foreign policy.

Hmmm, not to be antagonistic, but can you name one thing he did in the foreign policy area after his resignation? He wrote a lot of books, but how did he impact actual policy?

 

[eyer]

Republican politics as usual...How do conservatives rationalize this? President Nixon...blah, blah, blah...

Democratic politics as usual...How do liberals rationalize this? President Clinton...blah, blah, blah...

I guess it all depends on which side of the fence you hang your d!ck, underthestern.

 

[overthebow]

Republican politics as usual...How do conservatives rationalize this? President Nixon...blah, blah, blah...

Democratic politics as usual...How do liberals rationalize this? President Clinton...blah, blah, blah...

I guess it all depends on which side of the fence you hang your d!ck, underthestern.

No, it doesn't.

Don't try make this about Clinton.

 

[KingOrfeo]

With 15% of the world's population, that wasn't hard to figure out.

He went to China as a way of deflecting attention from Watergate.

No, Nixon went to China in 1972, before the Watergate story broke.

 

[overthebow]

No, Nixon went to China in 1972, before the Watergate story broke.

You are right.

I should have said that he used a policy of rapprochement with China to deflect attention from Watergate.