I like Richard Nixon

I believe that after the consequences of the Reagan and both Bush administrations are fully realized that Nixon will become per historians probably one of the greatests Presidents of the 20th Century. It is in my opinion that if they would have just left Nixon alone to continue throught the end of his term we most likely would have never seen Reagan, Bush or Bush Jr.. We wouldn't have this big bloated and intrusive federal government. We wouldn't have a 9 trillion dollar debt and rising. We wouldn't have 50 million without any medical coverage and and another 90 million underinsured. We wouldn't have the worst public school system in the world. We wouldn't have the highest incarceration rate either. We wouldn't have an infrastruture that is 20 years behind the rest of the industrialized nations. We wouldn't have an energy crisis that threatens our economic security. We would not be at war with just about every other third world nation on earth. And we wouldn't be seeing the end of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as we know it. So I leave you with some excerpts from Nixon's 1968 nominating speech, and would like to remind the readers that most Republicans today would not recognize it as a Republican speach but as a liberal Democratic speach that could have been given by Bill Clinton. It has been said that Nixon was the last great liberal president we had. In essence in this speach Nixon calls for revolution...from quoting Martin Luther King to embracing all Americans to ending the war in Vietnam. The Democratic Party could learn from this speach. Read on.....

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for 4 years
in WAR in North Vietnam with no end in site...When the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy....When the nation with greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness...When a nation that has been known for a century for equality of opportunity is torn by unprecedented racial violence...When the president of the United States can not travel abroad or to any major city at home without the fear of a hostile demonstration....then it is time for new leadership for the United States of America!

As we look at America we cities enveloped in smoke and flame, millions of Americans crying out in anguish...did we come all the way for this? Did American boys die in Normandy and Valley Forge for this?

I pledge to you that the current wave of violence will not be the wave of the future!

Now let us begin...by committing ourselves to the truth, to find the truth, to speak the truth and to live the truth....A new voice is being heard across America today...its not the voice of the protesters or the shouters...its the quiet voice of the majority of Americans who have been forgotten...the non shouters the non demonstrators they're the good people they work hard .They save and they pay their taxes...and who are they?? Let me tell you who they are... they are in this audience by the thousands...they're the white Americans and Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Italian Americans...they are the great silent majority and they have become angry finally…angry not with hate but angry my friends because they love America, and they don’t like what’s happened to America these last four years.

Let us understand the North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States only Americans can do that!

So I say to you tonight...we must have a new feeling of responsibility, of self discipline; we must look to a new state and local government. We must have a complete reform of a Big Bloated Federal Government.

Those of us in public service know we can have full prosperity in peace time.
Yes we can cut the defense budget.
We can reduce conventional forces in Europe.
We can restore the natural environment.
We can improve health care and make it more available to all people.
And yes we can have a complete reform of this government.
WE CAN HAVE A NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION!!!

Nixon 1968 Republican National Convention