I'm voting Nixon in '08, 40 years later he's still the best choice!

[originalpckelly]

I mean, how much harm could he do dead?



I think we need to start electing dead Presidents, the live ones get us into too much trouble. After Nixon gets it for 4 years, I'm going for Lincoln or maybe Washington.

Yes, we'd have to make a couple minor changes to the US Constitution, but that's not all that hard.

[stillcool]

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[Jackpine Radical]

2. Even alive, he'd beat a lot of the candidates.

I swear a lot of his policies were to the left of Bill Clinton. Universal healthcare, guaranteed minimum income, wage & price controls when needed...

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Wasn't it Nixon who gave us Managed Health care?

:shrug:

[Jackpine Radical]

12. As I recall, yes. Or at least he let it slide through--

he didn't initiate it, the industry did.

And Clinton gave us NAFTA.

I hated Nixon, I spit on his grave. But still, I guess my point is that conditions have degenerated so far that the worst of the old-time crooked politicians doesn't look all that bad by modern standards.

[melody]

4. The guy who gave us "give them less care for the same money" HMOs can hardly be called "progressive"

But I get your point.

[originalpckelly]

5. Sarcasm, I suppose, is lost on you.

[melody]

7. No, I was agreeing with your sarcasm

It was a "yeah, you've got a point post" ... which was the point I made.

Is the eyeroll lost on you?
:eyes:

[originalpckelly]

9. How did you manage to type that while kissing my ass?

:shrug:

:P

[melody]

16. Excuse me? Nah, never mind, not worth it. n/t

[niyad]

6. I never thought I would live to see a person sitting in the oval office who made tricky dick look

good by comparison. One of my poli sci profs commented, after nixon's election, that the country was stronger than any one president. pity he's dead now-- wonder if he would still feel the same after this disaster.

[lutefisk]

17. The good old days - Bush was a harmless drunken lounge lizard

...and every President did at least some good. Such innocent times in comparison with now.:cry:

[truedelphi]

8. And he and the crooks in his office were stealing

And embezzling money only for personal gain - not as part of some sort of RW plot to take every last cent from middle income America and divert it to the top one percent.

[kevsand]

10. "Nixon's the One"

You do know his head is being kept alive in a glass jar, right?

[DainBramaged]

11. That's not funny, that's sad.

[warren pease]

13. Because one dead Nixon...

...is worth at least a hundred live neocons. I think we're all a little too squeamish about electing the dead.

After all, a dead Mel Carnahan beat a live John Ashcroft in Missouri in 2000 and, after four years of watching him cover up statues, bleat about terror and sing about letting the eagle soar, you can see the voters' point.

The dead don't go on expensive taxpayer-funded junkets; they don't spend insane sums of money on TV spots that seem designed exclusively to piss off their entire voter base; they don't promise to end a military occupation, then laugh their asses off at how they conned the people yet again; and they don't need health care, expensive life insurance plans, a staff of hundreds and a couple of taxpayer-funded admins/sweeties stashed in Georgetown apartments. They even have a zero carbon footprint. What's not to like about electing the dead?

I think we're cheating ourselves out of one of our prime national treasures by not resurrecting FDR and the Kennedys and some of the 1776 crowd. Hell, let's get those shovels out now and start exhuming.

Ironic that it would take some dead guys to inject a little life into this election cycle, but when the corporatist suck ups have taken all the fun out of it, you've got to look elsewhere for some amusement.


wp

[niyad]

14. and the dead probably wouldn't need as much secret service protection--another boon

for the taxpayers.

[LanternWaste]

15. Don't change dicks in the middle of a screw...

Don't change dicks in the middle of a screw, vote for Nixon in '72.

Greatest. Bumper Sticker. Ever.

[book_worm]

18. I remember in '88 there was a bumper sticker for Nixon

Nixon: tanned, rested and ready