{"id":12643,"date":"2013-08-11T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12643"},"modified":"2013-08-11T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T01:58:23","slug":"figuring-nixon-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/08\/11\/figuring-nixon-again\/","title":{"rendered":"figuring Nixon again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saying goodbye to Richard Nixon 45 years ago<\/a>…<\/p>\n

And, you know… this might not be such an out of whack thought<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The current Republican Party isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a conservative party. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the party, instead, of Nixon and Gingrich. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dysfunctional mess, and a problem for the nation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And with the typical “but… what about” on some the \u00c2\u00a0tapping of Richard Nixon as the ironic “Last Liberal President”…<\/p>\n

We can get at this a couple of ways. One is that everyone should be very careful about what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nixon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d did, as opposed to what the government did while he was president. Give Nixon the Congress and the policy environment of 1947 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or 1997 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and you get very different results<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the left, Counterpunch, we get another dismantling of the “further to the left”, arguing it can’t even be argued against the neo-liberal Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is one thought here, with reflection of the Republican Party — and the manner of how the Primaries are working to redefine moderates as standard run of the mill conservative… we do have the sniping of Charles Goodell in favor of Chris Buckley<\/a>.
\n… with standard phrases of demagoguery.<\/p>\n

Key to this crypto-primary fight… Goodell had a voting record more in line with Nixon’s domestic agenda than such Conservative stalwarts as Barry Goldwater — but his deviations were to the left, and Nixon had use for a right flank but not a left flank. \u00c2\u00a0Further, the main thrust of agitation against the Moderate Republicans — some opposition to foreign policy — this had to be a partisan crudgel and Goodell was ruining that score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saying goodbye to Richard Nixon 45 years ago… And, you know… this might not be such an out of whack thought… The current Republican Party isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a conservative party. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the party, instead, of Nixon and Gingrich. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dysfunctional mess, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12645,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions\/12645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}