The W Regency might be a more accurate term for the Cheney Administration.
You’re very funny. No, wait, that’s not the right word. Idolizing Richard Nixon is not the sign of a good person.
I didn’t realize that sculpting strawmen could be raised to a high art.
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I remember the Nixon presidency. And I’ve always admired Hunter S Thompson’s vision…
Idolizing?
That’s a bit much, don’t you think? What have I said that makes you think I idolized him?
I thought he was smart, tough, an excellent foreign policy wonk, and largely did a good job as president. And based upon his landslide victory in '72, much of the country agreed.
I idolized Ronald Reagan. 
Attn: FinnAgain. Warning! Warning! Warning, Will Robinson! Stop where you are! Do not proceed! Anger and seriously elevated blood pressure will surely result!
Great, Bridget. So you prefer to seek wisdom and an accurate assessment of Nixon the person and president by turning to the words of a drug-using, alcoholic, crackpot malcontent, who was so self-centered and who cared so little for his own family that he blew his brains out in the kitchen of his home (with his wife on the phone), leaving his children to discover, upon hearing the gunshot, his bloody remains.
Typical leftie: “Oooh…he was a rebellious iconoclast and crackpot who did drugs out the ass while making fun of the right! What a cool guy! And when the time came and he decided that life sucks, he went out on his own fucking terms. How cool is that!”
This is one of the problems I have with the left. Look at who your heroes are!
You take umbrage when characterized as “idolizing” Nixon. Seconds later, you state that Bridget Burke holds Hunter S. Thompson as a “hero of the left” because she posted a relevant quote from him. Hmmm, what’s the word for that sort of behavior?
Also, one might say the same of the right. Look who YOUR heroes are.
Ronald Reagan proved that an animatronic President was not only possible, but could be quite successful, even given the rather profound limitations on robotic simulations of human behavior.
By the way, how is that Grenada Monument coming along?
Um, guys? Let’s calm down here, retract our claws…
Nevertheless, he’ll be missed.
I didn’t take umbrage. I just thought it was quite a stretch…particularly because it appears to have been based on my comments in this thread, which I hardly think can be characterized as idolatry.
Actually I implied that that the left in general regards him as a hero. Note my intentional use of “Typical leftie” to make the point, rather than Bridget herself.
Cognition?
You’re definitely an apologist. I wonder if you’d be so tolerant of a president with identical foibles on the left. I highly doubt it. Also, Nixon gives lie to your mantra that conservatives are polite, doesn’t it?
Maybe stop with the “typical leftie” stuff? You don’t like it when it’s done to you. I admire Thompson as a writer. That doesn’t make him a hero of mine or of the left. And his POV on Nixon was hilarious and priceless.
Not the word I was looking for.
Well…okay…if you insist. 
So, Everyone here recognizes Nixon’s mixed legacy. Starving Artist likes Nixon, all the rest of us think he was intelligent, hard-working, delusional, self-obsessed, paranoid, power-mad, dishonest, and possibly the most evil man to occupy the Oval Office.
One thing he was wrong about: we still have Nixon to kick around.
I have to ask the OP why it was that it was only when my (admittedly conservative) claws came out that he felt compelled to request Kumbaya, as opposed to comments like those of BMax above, which are provocative and which are characteristic of most of the anti-Nixon posts to this thread?
BMax, you may be right, but only because I can’t honestly say W was aware of the evil shit he was doing, and Cheney, technically, didn’t occupy the Oval Office. I’m of the considered opinion that he was a better man than W, and a better president for the country.
Depressin, ain’t it?
SA: Cause you’re pissin gasoline on a fire. Which, while entertaining, tends to wind up with someone engulfed in flames and rolling around. Not the best idea in the world.
And you’re not a conservative.
Dude, I only said that you like Nixon. Didn’t you say as much yourself? Don’t feel so picked on. You like Nixon. OK. Everyone else sees him as deeply flawed. Some see him as intensely evil. Call me to the pit if you want to make a big deal out of it.
Nah, it’s nothin’ against you. I’m just wondering why the OP seemed to be fine with strong anti-Nixon sentiments and insults aimed at me for defending him, but once I started to fire back he asked everyone to retract their claws.
And btw, I see Nixon as deeply flawed too. But in spite of that I still think he was a good president and essentially a good man. In short, I think he was a far cry from evil and is only perceived that way because of portrayals by a news media that had been out to get him for decades.
Yeah, That’s why I phrased it the way I did. When W. was president I sometimes called it “the Cheney Administration”. Nixon’s underlings, like Liddy & the other plumbers might have been incompetent, but until May of 74 when he was mumbling drunkenly to the painting of Kennedy, Tricky Dick was in charge of his administration. Nobody ever accused Nixon of being stupid.
Mods, can we PLEASE get that puking smiley? PLEEEESE!
Starving Artist, not so. I probably would not have voted for the man, as I disagree with his politics, but Barry Goldwater is certainly someone I admire.
And if Nixon is your idea of a “good man”, I’d hate to see the type you consider a “bad man.”
He did start a War on Cancer.