Is There No End To Discovering New Evils Done By Nixon?

Now the bourgeoisie are suddenly letting us know that Newt Gingrich met with Richard Nixon over dinner in 1982 to plot his takeover of the House of Representatives. This according to the New York Times. (I wonder how long they sat on this information? Sometimes the NY Times hides information for years.) Nixon told him exactly how to do it, according to the article.

[“For Gingrich in Power, Pragmatism, Not Purity,” NY Times, 12/21/11, p. A1. Click on link at end.]

The article continues for an entire page inside, consisting mostly of dish against Gingrich. The first paragraph of the jump page gives away the Times agenda. It quotes the hard right reactionary and ex-Representative Vin Weber saying “Gingrich is more Nixonian than he is Reaganite. Not in the Watergate sense, in the strategic sense. He is not an ideologue.” And as everyone knows, Reagan Good, Nixon Bad, notwithstanding Weber's qualifier. Especially to Republicans, who are in the process of getting ready to pick a Presidential nominee- the Iowa caucuses are about to occur- who see Reagan as a political divinity.

For the past week or so, the media, particularly the NY Times, has been full of Republicans saying that Gingrich would be an awful President, he's temperamentally unsuited, he's a flake with a short attention span whose ideas are all over the map, and he's untrustworthy. (Shades of John Boehner! Or Barack Obama, he of the constant veto-no-veto double-crosses.) Supposedly, many GOP politicians think Gingrich would be a disaster, as a candidate or as President. The NY Times evidently thinks so since they keep repeating that story of GOP misgivings about Gingrich. (Not that it isn't a legitimate story. And the story of the GOP's voters coolness towards Mitt Romney has also been repeated over and over.)

For many people who suffered under Nixon's rule, it was always obvious what a pathological person he was and how dedicated he was to doing evil. Belatedly, the bulk of the bourgeoisie turned against him in 1974, for various reasons, some obscure (hidden from public view). They never acknowledged his evil however, portraying him as tragically flawed, like a character out of a drama. That is a whitewash, of course. But if your storyline is that the very worst thing the man ever did was burgle the Party HQ of the Democrats, it's no wonder.

For Gingrich in Power, Pragmatism, Not Purity