PS: Mr. Hail, my Dad was a true Conservative his whole life. I think my Mom went along with it, but never really got it. I heard about this from my Mom, as I recall, so she said it in a way that was making fun of Nixon. He had some parts of his personality that, granted, I don't like either (in particular the winning elections over principles which was a basic theme of Buchanan's story on the 1968 campaign). However, I'm sure the press at the time declined to show the American public the bad sides of J.F. Kennedy's personality.

As you know from "The Greatest Comeback", it was not so completely one-sided back then with the print media, which was, of course, much bigger than it is now. Nixon had his editor friends . As I recall, Pat went up to New Hampshire to visit with a newspaper editor who was a big Nixon supporter.

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RE: "I remember that 'don't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore line' from my parents"

What did they say about it?

PS: I remember that "don't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore line" from my parents, Mr. Hail. I read that Pat Buchanan book and the review is here:

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1460

I meant to write a few more posts on some pieces of history in "The Greatest Comeback", but I'm not sure if I can figure out what they were going to be anymore - still got the book though.

PS Hail: Guilty as charged. Intentionally, with knowledge aforethought, I cribbed Nixon’s line. Without attribution.

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"Go back nearly 50 years, when everybody watched TV and you had Saturday Night Live with Chevy Chase imitating and exaggerating the goofing and bumbling of President Gerald Ford. It was in fun. I really don't think there was that much political to it."

Fall 1975(?), Chevy Chase starts portraying Gerald Ford as a bumbling buffoon on Season 1 of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, one year ahead of election vs. a super-smart peanut farmer from Georgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvxZgCryUE

Looking back on the Nov 1976 election am surprised to see how close it was: if just 20,000 votes shifted from Carter-->Ford in Wisconsin and 6000 shifted Carter-->Ford in Ohio, Ford would have been elected president.

Might portraying Ford as a bumbling buffoon have been enough to shift those votes?

I note in passing that if Steve Sailer is really born Dec 1958, he missed by only weeks being able to vote in Nov 1976 for Ford or Carter or Other. He turned 18 a few weeks after voting day.

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RE: MBlanc46

"The Left consider no Repub legitimate, and have not done so in my lifetime. So, at least since Truman. Ike was popular enough that they had to lay off him, but since then, the Press attacks every Repub pres and lionizes every Dem. It has gotten worse, of course, but it is not new. As there will not be another Repub pres, it will be interesting to watch how they react to not having a Repub to kick around."

I am reminded of Nixon, including by that line "kick around

("Appearing before 100 reporters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel [November 1962], an embittered Nixon lashed out at the media, proclaiming that 'you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference'.")

After the 1960 campaign, his opponent Kennedy himself expressed shock at the constant media harassment of Nixon, saying:

"Dick Nixon is the victim of the worst press that ever hit a politician in this country. What the did to him...was disgusting." (Quoted in Pat Buchanan's 2014 book THE GREATEST COMEBACK.)

PS: I've heard that theory, Alarmist. I think your last bit says it, though. I don't think this country will have much of a working Constitution by 7 years from now (a one year wait, then off the guy, then just under 2, + 4, then that last term.

PS: Mr. Ganderson and Mr. Smith: I knew a guy that had a big Canadian flag on his apartment wall. He didn't sound Canadian. It turned out he was just that much of a Rush fan.

Mr. Blanc, you are probably right, thatI am being too generous to the entertainment business of the 1970s.

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Canadian Content, eh?

PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...

Luv, Luv, Luv Cinderella Man. I love the whole album really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg

What a different world it was in 1977.

☮

PS Old Uncle Joe has even a few years on me. It is right and proper that the pres is older than I am. The one thing that I REALLY hated Obama for was that he was my junior. And by quite a bit. I wasn’t in the US when Chevy Chase was on SNL. But I do remember the atmosphere of the time. Yes, the anti-Ford skit was political. The Left consider no Repub legitimate, and have not done so in my lifetime. So, at least since Truman. Ike was popular enough that they had to lay off him, but since then, the Press attacks every Repub pres and lionizes every Dem. It has gotten worse, of course, but it is not new. As there will not be another Repub pres, it will be interesting to watch how they react to not having a Repub to kick around.

PS Great four panel meme shows Putin, Xi, Lil' Kim NorKo all on the phone with Xi say saying you on here bro to a smiling Putin who is on the right then comrade Xi says hold on call waiting and Kimster is in the fourth right panel saying you see that Bros!
Go get em faculty lounge heroes the world trembles in fear of Dementia Joe and Heels up, pack another choom bong and marvel at your magnificence with Chicago Jesus, the one!

PS: Where is that large automobile?

I had a late '60s Olds 98 Hearse for a while. Couldn't fit it in a standard garage and close the door. Got almost five miles to the gallon.

But it sure was a smooth ride.

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The one freaking out the most right now might be Kamala ... she needs Creepy Joe to hang in there until he reaches the two-year mark so that she gets a full ten years as the official POTUS ... if she takes over before Joe reaches year two, she only gets one more term after completing his... assuming they don’t suspend the Constitution on national security grounds by then.

PS Ford himself was amused by Chevy Chase’s antics- for a lifetime hack pol he seemed pretty normal.

Back in the late 70s there was a play called “The Basement Tapes”, the premise being a get together in Gerry Ford’s basement with Ford, Nixon, and G. Gordon Liddy. I was amused at the time, although I was still a pseudo commie back hen. I’m guessing that it would be pretty dated today.

Was there any sport being had with Slow Joe’s slip-and-fall on SNL? I’d guess no, unless they had DJT tripping him from under the stairs.