A Brief Note on Why Richard M. Nixon is my Hero

1) "Nixon rose by speaking to his fellow unpolished strivers of the white middle class as if they were society's oppressed- to the disgust of the sophisticated liberals."

2) Checkers. In Nixon's infamous televised address, Checkers symbolized Nixon's common ground with the underrepresented middle class. Walter Lippmann called the "Checkers speech" the "most demeaning experience my country has ever had to bear." But hey- it worked!

3) Nixon also had the most epic, memorable policitcal [s]slander[/s] quotes. Quotes on 'hope' and 'change' are good, but unexciting. Like spaghettios.

Quotes on Nixon's foreign policy:
~"Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put a quarter in the toliet."
~"I am glad that I am not Breshnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say." (See? It's irony!)

His insults:
~"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry at one he respects."

His words to live by:
~"Politics would be a helluva good buisness if it weren't for the goddamned people."
~"Soultions are not the answer."

Nixon's military strategery:
~"Tell them to send everything that can fly."

And his domestic policy:
~"The press is the enemy."

4) Nixon took some hits, such as when he lost the Presidential race in 1960 and the campaign California governorship in 1962. But he still kept trying, and was clever enough to dissassociate himself from the angry backlash.

5) He caught commies- as in, He believed in superficiality and preyed on the fears of Americans to catapult himself to power.

6) He was memorable. As Nixon said it himself, "If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, it means he never stood for anything." Nixon stood for things. More than that, Nixon stood on things. Like the corpses of communist scum!