Tor F? Is all the pardoning of Republican crooks the reason for their ascension?

[billbuckhead]

The RepuKKKes seem to have gotten bolder and bolder in their crimes as the century wore on until they installed Bushco. Does the lack of fear of going to jail embolden these tyrants? Each crime has begetting even larger crimes

[Erika]

1. Nixon should have been tried not pardoned

But that's history. Oh, and don't forget Bill Clinton got a bj.

[lvasconcellos]

2. Ford's excuse

was that he would not be able to move the country forward. Unfortunately, he lacked prescience when he said "the long nightmare is behind us" , Vietnam is starting to look like a cakewalk compared to the disaster in Iraq. At least when we finally left Iraq we hadn't started a country on the road to fragmentation and utter chaos.
And what kind of message are we sending the rest of the world when we preach on and on about democracy and the rule of law, and then we just pardon lawbreakers if they're of the moneyed class?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Yeah. He came up with that less than one month into his term.

Obviously, he was not going to accomplish anything in the next 2 1/2 years if he didn't pardon Tricky Dick.

It was clear to me then that it was a set up - the resignation, his promotion and the pardon were all a package deal. And among his close advisors were Cheney and Rumsfeld. He shut down the investigations by pre-emptively pardoning the primary subject, and the rest of the criminals went on to careers under Reagan and Bush.

[xchrom]

4. that would be a misunderstanding of the rise of those

who followed straus's thinking on politics.
the rise of paul weyrich and william f buckley.

pardoning nixon has nothing to do with the alliance between corporatism and religious fanaticism.

nixon making trade a political tool dealing with china{opening china} is more on point than any of this.