Reply #18: I was a Nixon supporter, I suppose. [View All]

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When Nixon was elected, I supported him because he promised to end the war and get us out of VietNam. He lied. In 1972, he was re-elected in a landslide because he promised to end the war and get us out of VietNam. He lied.
I was a total political neophyte, still believing he meant well, and I was offended by the practice of the news pundits: that of coming on after every speech he made and telling all of us what he said and what he really meant to say. They continually ripped on him and, being the inveterate champion of the underdog that I was, I defended him, leading many of my more knowledgeable associates to brand me a nut.
Not wishing to be always regarded as weak-minded, I undertook a self re-education. It took a while, but I finally figured it all out.
It took a bit less to convince me, at least in part, that Carter was a charlatan, but, for a while it succeeded--at least until I, again, became politically conscious and figured out Carter was the real deal, too late.
Now, the only person who still insists that Nixon was an honorable man is that known nitwit and certifiably insane loudmouth, Pat Buchanan. There are, no doubt, many in the congenitally disfunctional ranks of republican reprobates who entertain such notions, but they are, generally, pretty quiet about it.

I must cut myself a little slack. I came of age as LBJ was lying his ass off about the war, the draft board was breathing down my neck, and I hated and distrusted everything about government.