The best of the worst

[hyphenate]

So many right-wingers pretty much worship the ground that Ronnie Reagan walked on, but of course we know better. ;)

And we all know what happened to Tricky Dick Nixon, which didn't say much about his time in office.

However, while I would actually prefer either of these two former GOPers to the idiot and idiot senior, I have to think before saying which of them was the "least" worst, and therefore capable of the job as POTUS again.

I personally think if it were just between either of them, though, that I would prefer Nixon over Reagan.

Which of the two would you prefer? I know it's not a very realistic scenario, but it's something to think about in terms of the past 40 years or so as to which of them fucked the country and its people the least.

[saltpoint]

1. Just kill me.

I can't choose.

[blm]

3. Me too - but I'd have to say Nixon was a tad less fascist.

But my greater sense is that even Nixon and Reagan were useful tools to advance the BFEE and its overall march to assert global fascism.

[saltpoint]

6. I distrusted (and am still repelled by) the kind of men Nixon placed in

positions of influence.

Haldeman and Erlichman. John Mitchell. Hells bells, those guys were thugs in suits. I loved Hunter S. Thompson's description of Nixon's crew: "thugs and fixers." And that was probably charitable.

Reagan was imbecilic long before the diagnosis. That was a difficult presidency to watch. By daylight there was sunny Ronny blathering nonsense in those historic photo-ops with the patriotic backgrounds, lifting the American spirit, blah blah blah, and then by night there were Negroponte's death squads destroying people's lives in El Salvador.

If I'm forced to choose, you're right. I guess I'd take Nixon.

[uppityperson]

2. Reagan administration was worse

Reagan was an actor being run by the same bozos in power now. Nixon was a paranoid little man that actually did some good.

[Sammy Pepys]

4. If I had to choose...

...FORCED to choose...GUN TO MY HEAD........it would be Nixon, much more of a policy moderate.

[lutefisk]

5. In the Nixon WH, Cheney was only evil, and not yet super-evil

He still looked like a complete a__hole back then.

But, little Dick had less influence on big Dick then than he does on Junior now...

[LeftishBrit]

7. I think I'd prefer Nixon to Reagan as well...

but it might be just because I remember Reagan much better!

Nixon seems to have been moderate on SOME issues; and at least he established better relations between America and China, and started negotiations with the Soviet Union.

Then again, there was Vietnam (though he didn't *start* the war there) and his involvement in McCarthyism at an earlier stage.

Reagan's reign was just one long disaster AND he was a pal of Maggie Thatcher.

[On the Road]

8. I Am Guided by Hunter Thompson's Words

that if Hubert Humphrey got the nomination, he would vote for Richard Nixon.