Newt: Let's Go Impeachin'!

You mean . . . Richard "If I do it, it's not illegal" Nixon?

A smart guy, who crashed on the rocks of his own multiple delusions and psychosis.

 

I still maintain that if Watergate were to happen today, nobody would blink.

 

Disagree. The guy was so out of line for so long, he thought hiring thugs for dirty work (CREEP was one of the greatest acronyms, ever) was SOP. Nixon was indeed tragic-- and we're all still paying for his psychological quirks and ugly precedents.

And . . . no coincidence . . . the insects known as Cheney and Rummy were around then, and now. Gag.

 

I sort of agree. I don't think that it would take down a sitting president.

No matter what party it was, 20 percent would be deeply offended, while another 20 percent would think their party did the right thing.

That leaves the middle and when you take out the people who don't care and aren't informed enough to have an opinion, it leaves just a precious few, not enough to be a majority of the country once it all shook out.

 

SINCE Watergate, political decorum and ethics have worsened 10-fold. This kind of crap is justified by the ends/objectives.

 

No. I meant Johnson and Clinton. Nixon resigned before he was impeached.

 

Disagree. I think people understand that trying to cover-up a burglary is still a serious charge and it can be broken down into a simple narrative to follow. It's something to do about trying to undermine the election process.

It's not like something complex such as a land deal, or insider trading that would be difficult for people to follow on a regular basis.

Now, the big question is, how would Watergate be treated in today's media. For one, who knows if the dots would ever have been connected? There's a lot less resources out there. On the other hand, you might have gotten a blogger exposing it, and then the screamasphere would just rip the whole thing apart.

 

The big boys - the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New Yorker - still pour resources into a story like that. Let's not forget, Woodward and Bernstein was just city desk reporters investigating a burglary.

 

That completely depends on if the president is a Democrat or a Republican.

 

Because the media didn't cover the Clinton scandals at all.

 

All in loving detail, replete with copious free publicity for The Gap . . .

 

I wouldn't call "any Republican who brings this up is evil, and we really need to make Linda Tripp out to be the devil" as actual coverage of the Clinton scandals. We'll just have to agree to disagree.