Buck up, you lefties!: Justin Raimondo

[Domitan]

Aside from Kerry's known limitations, however, I would urge the dejected to put their present travails in historical perspective. On November 11, 1972, Richard Nixon was reelected in what was truly a mandate for his monstrous foreign policy: it was one of the largest landslides in the history of American politics. Nixon crushed the Democratic nominee, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, taking more than 60 percent of the vote.

A few months later, Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. By April, the Nixon White House was in disarray, as the Watergate conspirators scrambled in a vain attempt to cover up the cover-up. Senate hearings on the matter were convened in May. That summer, John Dean spilled his guts to Watergate investigators, who uncovered more incriminating evidence of illegal White House activities. October's Saturday Night Massacre sounded the death knell of Nixon's presidency, ensuring that, no matter what the ultimate outcome – impeachment or resignation – the 36th President of the United States would go down in the history books as a discredited and pathetic failure. A year after pulverizing the McGovernites – who, unlike the Kerry-ites, really were opponents of global interventionism – Nixon was whining "I am not a crook!"

While the issue has largely been lost sight of on account of special prosecutor Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald's bulldoggish tactics – threatening to jail reporters for refusing to divulge their sources – his probe into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by Washington neocons eager to discredit her husband, diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, is likely to reach into the Vice President's office – and, from there, insinuate its way into the White House. It's the cover-up, not the crime, that gets them every time…

Aside from confirming my predictive prowess – I meant relatively substantial compared to the 2000 contest – the Bush victory signifies much less than is readily apparent. Yes, it's one giant step backward, but the antiwar forces can confidently look forward to taking two or even three quite substantial steps forward in the months to come. While the public now knows that there were no "weapons of mass destruction," no lraqi links to 9/11, and no real threat to the U.S. posed by Saddam, the whole story of this administration's unparalleled mendacity has yet to be fully revealed. Bush's Watergate is bubbling up to the surface. The built-up pressure of months of investigations – years, in the case of the Israeli spy ring – is threatening to explode the deepest darkest secrets of the Bush White House onto the front pages. Now that Franklin has engaged Plato Cacheris, who first rocketed to fame as Attorney General John Mitchell's co-counsel in the Watergate case, the stage is set for a series of courtroom dramas – and possibly congressional hearings – that will not only tear the mask off the War Party but could discredit it for a good many years to come.

Screw John Kerry. We have just begun to fight.

[Wright Patman]

1. Hope springs eternal

but does anyone seriously believe Nixon would have ever been forced from office if he had had both houses of Congress under his control?

The fact is he had neither and both House and Senate were in Democratic control by very large margins. In the early 1970s, most of the legislators from the South still belonged to the Democratic Party.

How do you "impeach" all three branches of government under the control of one party? You don't. You come down to either accepting the tyranny or ... see 1776.

[onyourleft]

2. To say nothing of the fact that the media during Nixon's era was

not controlled by the White House. I have the feeling that no matter what is bubbling under the surface, the White House can shut down the media with a phone call. A good example is the latest tape; anyone heard that yet? :shrug:

[Domitan]

3. BUT DON'T FORGET

They did not have the internet back in the early 1970's. Granted it's a long and hard fight, but we the population are more armed with knowledge than before! It's what we do with it that counts.

[starroute]

6. The Washington Post was tight with the CIA!

Ben Bradlee was pals with James Angleton. Bob Woodward also had intelligence collections. (I think Naval Intelligence in his case.)

And don't forget Deep Throat.

If the Bush regime is coming down, it's going to be an inside job, just like with Nixon.

[WyLoochka]

4. Justin Raimondo

could have long ago aligned himself with leftist libertarians instead of the rightist libertarians (ie corporatists in the Mussolini tradition) that he foolishly aided and abetted for so long. Never too late to wise up though.

[carnie_sf]

5. Treason baby

let the indictments roll

[glitch]

7. Yep. We'll skip impeachment since we don't have the House

and go straight for prison. And reparations, of course.

[nightperson]

8. Here is the link:

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