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Related: About this forumIs Scott Walker the Political Reincarnation of Richard Nixon?
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has been involved in countless political scandals since he entered office. He also has a history of bully politics and trying to mask his unpopular policies.
But now, hes looking towards the big seat. What would a Scott Walker presidency look like? Do we even have to ask?
Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss this.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Nixon, at least, was good at lying. Wanker gets caught out every time - though he doesn't seem to care.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I think these miscreants have control of the voting/vote counting mechanism in Wisconsin. Maybe nationwide.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)He signed the first environmental bills Congress passed, he got the Soviets to the negotiating table on SALT talks (limiting nuclear arms), and opened the door to friendlier relations with China. I can't envision Walker doing anything positive, just bringing massive corruption to the executive branch.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Seriously - does anyone think he is capable of writing or thinking - let alone writing any of the legislation in the wisc - unless all the beatings the wisc people are taking are from just a plainly - with no conscience evil....walkerkoch..
What evil lurks in the minds of men - the shadow know...
wisc. is better than this...trouble is the dumbing down of so many - voting like they are the 1%...pathetic....
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Nixon was unethical, but he was nobody's fool. In the end he made his own decisions and committed his own crimes.
Walker would be more like Dan Quayle would have been as president. Like Quayle, if you look into Walker's eyes you know there's nothing behind them. Perhaps he thinks he has real power, but the fact is that he is a servile idiot who wouldn't even think of anything to do if Dave and Charlie didn't tell him. It would be even worse that Bush the Frat Boy, another vapid, unimaginative person misplaced in a position of power who let himself be led astray by his Mephistophelian Vice President. Walker's Mephestopheles, however, would be a cabal of corrupt corporate executives bent of the destruction of popular sovereignty.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)phone call? He not only fell for it, he was creepy: obsequious and smarmy. Even Sarah Palin had a hard time living down a similar prank call (from "Sarkozy"?). Somehow Walker lived it down. There's something very wrong and scary about his sudden political "popularity."
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)Nixon was a nice man, a liberal and certainly way more intelligent. Of course the lack of these qualities is what makes Walker eminently electable by the rubes that think whatever the Koch brothers tell them to think.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... does Nixon a great disservice. And I despised that evil sonofabitch.
Spitzbub
(14 posts)Nixon was highly educated and crafty. Walker is soulless ambition. His eyes are black and empty like a shark's.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)tartan2
(314 posts)I didn't vote for Nixon but I would take him over all the GOP clowns that are out there. He did do a few good things during his time in the White House.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)marble falls
(57,275 posts)Ted Kennedy to try to introduce a single payer health care system, ended the draft and, moving the United States military to an all-volunteer force, responding to rising concern over conservation and pollution, President Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency, and later oversaw passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Mammal Marine Protection Act, appointing 4 Supreme Court justices; Chief Justice Burger, Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and William Rehnquist (admttedly pretty dismal), who later became Chief Justice, President Nixon ushered in an era of judicial restraint. Dedicated a $100 million to begin the War on Cancer, a project that created national cancer centers and antidotes to the deadly disease.
Signed Title IX in 1972, preventing gender bias at colleges and universities receiving federal aid, opening the door for women in collegiate sports, initiated and oversaw the peaceful desegregation of southern schools, welcomed the astronauts of Apollo XI safely home from the moon, eventually overseeing every successful moon landing, was a great proponent of the 26th Amendment, extending the right to vote to 18-20 year olds, lowering the voter age from 21, effectively broke the back of organized crime, authorizing joint work between the FBI and Special Task Forces, resulting in over 2,500 convictions by 1973. President Nixon ended the policy of forced assimilation of American Indians, returned sacred lands, and became the first American President to give them the right to tribal self-determination.
President Nixon participated in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with Soviet Secretary General Brezhnev in 1972 as part of the effort to temper the Cold War through diplomatic détente. Signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, helping to calm U.S.-Soviet tensions by curtailing the threat of nuclear weapons between the worlds two superpowers. Was the first President to visit the Peoples Republic of China, where he issued the Shanghai Communiqué, announcing a desire for open, normalized relations. The diplomatic tour de force brought more than a billion people out of isolation.
Signed the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, announced a groundbreaking foreign policy doctrine in 1969 that called for the United States to act within its national interest and keep all existing treaty commitments with its allies, established a new relationship with the Middle East, eliminating Soviet dominance in the region and paving the way toward regional peace.
Initiated Project Independence in reaction to the oil embargo of 1973, which set a timetable to end reliance on foreign oil by 1980. 1970, President Nixon avoided a second Cuban Missile Crisis involving a Soviet submarine base by adhering to his policy of hard-headed détente, an active rather than passive form of diplomacy. Supported Israel with massive aid in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which Prime Minister Golda Meir later said saved her country.
For a seriously flawed character, Nixon did a lot of good. Scott is a seriously flawed character incapable of doing good in any way shape way or form.
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)Nixon was a crook for himself -- Walker pimps for the Koch brothers.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)If you're old enough to Remember Tricky Dick and despised him AT THE TIME, you are now looking back and missing him when compared to today's Repug candidates.