| rocketpig said: Thank you for bringing up one very important point. |
Nah, that is not true at all. Political parties (Republican and Democrat) thrive on painting past Presidents (and even unsuccessful candidates) as unethical, incompetent, etc. Politics is just as much about controlling the past as it is about controlling the present.
Think:
Republican Examples:
Nixon (for good reason though his foreign policy is unappreciated by most people)
Herbert Hoover (incompetence)
Dan Quayle (just plain being an idiot)
Bush - "W" (yet to be determined in the long term, but pretty obvious he will be a human pinata for at least some time)
Democratic Examples:
Jimmy Carter (incompetence and aloofness)
Michael Dukakis (limousine liberal)
John Kerry (limousine liberal and wind-suring Frenchman)
Clinton (for getting a BJ)
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
