A president who has gotten a really bad rap and no one understood it. As long as the facts about nixons presidency and watergate, he wont be wellrespected as a president. Not going to be an admired figure. He cant be. Not only that, but what the tapes show, almost had the view of the presidency as an instrument, which he could use for personal revenge. In these new tapes you have he will say, go after the mcgovern contributors, go after the dnc contributors. Get the irs to run their tax returns and so forth. And guest very interesting the more successful he is, the more revengeful he becomes. He reaches the pinnacle of his reelection with real serious numbers. Its a record in the top three of all president ial races, and the electoral and the popular vote. Host in 1972. Guest what happens . He becomes more bitter. What he talking about most . How he is going after his enemies. This is not a gracious winner. But he is also troubled. Host you knew him and work for him and had all those m
Well, the question now looms up there in the air, is this nasty stupid politics or nasty effective politics . Did rove hurt himself, which really doesnt matter in the big world, or did he hurt himself but also hurt Hillary Clinton in the act . This matters. If hillarys forced to play defense on health, will this rob her of a clean, upbeat future campaign, forcing her to play rear guard tie her to the past, putting the focus on what shes been through, not where she wants to take us . Again, we can agree, rove is nasty, but is he nasty stupid or nasty smart . Is he playing the bad guy knowing it will help the republican nominee, perhaps jeb bush be the good guy . Will he take the low road so his eventual candidate can zip up the high road . This much is plausible. Karl rove has done it all before, and now hes doing it again. And somewhere this week, the campaign for 2016 began, and on karl roves time table. Steve mcmahons a democratic strategist and wayne slater is Senior Writer at the D
One of the nasty truths about our two nastiest presidents is that getting close to them would likely end you up in jail. Both presidents were Republicans. Both were preternaturally corrupt. And both demanded the kind of loyalty from their subordinates that required you, when asked, to commit crimes .