Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The Best Nixon Document Ever?

At Slate.

Oh, man, that guy was quite the psycho. You've gotta love some of his attempts to cite evidence that he's actually a minimally human being, especially his reference to "the calls that I make to people when they are sick, even though they no longer mean anything to anybody."

Jesus, what a bleeding-heart pansy.

And don't forget: many of our friends on the right who are still defending W are the kinds of people who would still be defending Nixon if this were 1974. Hell, for that matter, many of our friends on the right who are still defending W are still defending Nixon in 2007. Don't forget, Nixon had around a 40% approval rating during Watergate. A large percentage of the right is nothing if not intensely tribal; mere facts are usually insufficient to shake their allegiance to their (usually ill-chosen) heroes. The only way they can lose the support of their dittohead followers is by being insufficiently conservative. Mere injustice and incompetence won't do the trick.

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