Pretty sure most of the Bush crime syndicate flows from that diseased spring.

And yeah, most modern Repubs owe their tainted, self-serving success to that fucker.

The one label one should never forget from Nixon is rat fucking. Karl Rove is cut from that cloth.

Jus saying.....

he needed two people to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Have recently re read a book of his letters. Selah

How we could use another HST.

...that writer's opinion on Tricky Dick.

Just the two of us--and a couple dozen of our closest friends.

He was visiting USC in the early '70's and brown-bagged it with a group of us journalism students in a small classroom. I don't think he ate much, but he had his ever-present cigarette and his can of beer.

Nixon brought into the mainstream Repuke fold the paranoids, racists and fly-eating lizard people that had been around since they first coalesced in their hatred for the New Deal. Two of the key figures in the paranoid right of the late 1940s-1950s were William F. Buckley and ultra-nuts millionaire Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society. Fred Koch was also intimately involved in this movement.

Buckley put a veneer of intellectual respectability on plain old paranoid, xenophobic 'murkan reactionary greedhead politics while Welch stirred up the grass-roots lunatics. These groups pushed Goldwater to run for president against JFK, and eventually LBJ but that crowd did not go away after Goldwater was crushed by Johnson. They regrouped, principally around Ronnie Raygun, and Nixon invited them into the fold in 1968. They slowly began to dominate the party, bringing the loony fundy churches into the mix by the mid-1970s and took over completely after Ford was beaten by Jimmy Carter.

Rick Perlstein's Before The Storm is a great history of the roots of today's Republican lunatic asylum.

Ship of fools: Johann Hari sets sail with America's swashbuckling neocons

Written in 2007 as the asylum inmates gained wealth, power on a level not seen since the ancient empires.

Since then, Johann Hari has been accused of 'making quotes up,' so his words have to be taken with a grain of salt. Or he was smeared for reporting, I really don't know. Looks like his career was ruined.

@#$% the GOP.

Hunter S.Thompson was one hell of a writer. (even if he did write "Hells Angels" from a motel room)

I forget where I got that info but it surprised me too.

To weird to live, to rare to die.
RIP HST

Our own Will Pitt and Charles Pierce are prime examples.