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Originally Posted by sgtclub
It started with Bork.
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Really? You don't think Bork had anything to do with the muck of Irangate and Watergate, a world in which Republicans felt free to break laws to win elections? Feeling nostalgic for the squeeky-clean world of Lee Atwater and Spiro Agnew?
There's an argument to be made that the Rs today are still a couple steps shy of G. Gordon Liddy territory, and that the Republican party of today, complete with local parties engaged in Glock auctions, is still not embracing it's reprehensible elements to the same degree that Nixon did at the birth of the southern strategy. I don't think Sarah Palin or Michele Bachman would openly pander to racism the way it was done in the 60s and 70s (by conservative dems as well as many national Rs).
Kennedy gave to Bork but a fraction of what he personally had been given by others in his career prior to that date. I really don't think there is that much different about today's Republican party than at any time since Goldwater, other than the relative weakness of the Northern Rs and the ability of the Rs to attract many of the most reprehensible Dems in the South away from the party.
