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Conservative Republicans have added your despicable name to the list of TRAITORS in our stench-producing Senate dominated by those on the Radical Left and representing your ilk. Your refusal to be swayed by either reason or eloquence indicates your leftist orientation. HEMISPHERIC SECURITY AND DEFENSE will be threatened by Castro's Communistic allies and your ideological cohorts. An awesomely large mass of information can be mobilized to invalidate your fuzzy left-wing thinking. TRAITORS of your gutter orientation abound in our corrupt Senate dominated by the scum and vermin of the Marxist Democrats. Rest assured, Commissar McIntyre, that you will be classified as insidious and corrupt. Americans who care to stand up in your Marxist behalf are to be sledge-hammered as QUISLINGS and odious incendiaries. We will concentrate on your vicious leftist VOTING RECORD and your excessive loyalty to the liberal pig in the tainted WHITE HOUSE. My qualifications: Washington University postgraduate and honor student. You are unquestionably on of the most dishonest and VICIOUSLY CORRUPT hucksters and charlatans in our thieving Senate controlled by vermin of your FAR-LEFT views. We will work assiduously to damn you in scathing terms. YOUR ARE AIDING AND ABETTING your beloved COMMUNIST CAUSE. CONSERVATIVES are being enlisted to stomp our way through your Communizing Senate which dares to stand up to its CONSERVATIVE BETTERS. Rest assured that we deem you to be on the same plane as COMMUNISTS. You are vermin."
- Letter I received following Senate vote on Panama Canal treaties.
That's from Chapter 9, "The Psyche of the Radical Right," of The Fear Brokers, US Senator from New Hampshire Thomas McIntyre's detailed expose of the 1970's version of what is today's Dick Armey, Citizens United, digitally enhanced model.
Cut and paste Shea-Porter for McIntyre, Death Panels for the Panama Canal, Socialist for Communist, and Rupert Murdoch for William Loeb, and presto! - you've traveled 35 years in the blink of a paradigm.
Senator Thomas McIntyre (D-NH), in the conclusion to The Fear Brokers, a 1978 book I have realized within two or three pages of perusing is required reading for where we are today in 2010:
Even though I do not believe the New Right will ever prevail in America, I do fear its rising influence. Its inflammatory practices and simplistic appeals can delay or obstruct the resolution of issues that can spell the life or death of this nation, and - I speak without hyperbole - of our civilization.
Many thanks to DD for pointing me in this direction.
Around 200 hours of Nixon tapes were released today, including this classic peek inside core Republican principles:
On Dec. 9, 1972, Nixon talks to Colson about the appointment of building trades union leader Peter Brennan as secretary of labor:
NIXON: "The idea, they finally think the appointment of a working man makes them think we're for the working man."
Looking for more heartwarming examples of Nixon's humanity, I accidentally stumbled on a little New Hampshire electoral history - a telephone exchange between Nixon and perennial Republican candidate (and former Governor) Wesley Powell, two days before he lost to incumbent Thomas McIntyre for US Senate.
Listen to them talk about turning out the Manchester wards. Crazy.
I'd love to hear from any Hamsters out there who can fill in more detail on this Granecdote.
