| Good, thoughtful responses as usual, Sonart. Just a couple of remarks:
- Yeah, Evil Dick be lookin' kinda good in comparison these days. At least -- as Paul Krugman once remarked -- the Nixonians actually took the process of government seriously, and thought it worthy of talent.
Still, I'd put the marker back in the mid-60s. After all, less than four years separate Eisenhower's presidency and Goldwater's candidacy. Imagine.
- When a US senator has to come up with 10 thousand dollars (or whatever it's worked its way up to these days) a day just to get his ass re-elected, things have gone too far.
- Rudy is a centrist? Well I'll be. (Did you hear Biden's remark? "He only knows three words: -- noun, verb, 9/11", or something to that effect.)
- I say again: If a people doesn't go out on the streets to protest an obviously stolen election (or series of stolen elections) it doesn't deserve democratic representation.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |