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Nixon was pretty irrational himself.
Nixon was corrupt, but he was also intelligent. He described on the Today Show, in 1994, Putin's rise to power, 6 years before it even happened. Purely based on being able to see how situations would unfold. And he was right.
But nobody gave a shit, because the person saying it was Nixon. Nobody wanted to hear what that asshole had to say.
I wish people today still held that same contempt for corrupt politians.
He certainly wasn't stupid, but a rational person would have never bugged the DNC in preparation for an election where he was that heavily favored. He only stood to lose, but he was paranoid.
Nixon was a flower girl next to these goons in the WH.
Are flower girls notoriously sane?
i mean this is what the flower girls at our wedding looked like
edit dammit wrong link
My mind goes straight to Daisy Girl.....but I can't make the connection between Nixon, and the first ever political attack ad.