The more I listen to the Nixon tapes the more I conclude he was a good man (where I would've thought the opposite 10 years ago). His misadventures with Vietnam and price fixing are low spots, but he wasn't responsible for getting us into that war.
People who were Republicans before the late 1960s were not neocons, because neocons were the Democrats who switched sides to the Republicans over foreign policy issues in the 1968 and especially in 1972 over the nomination of McGovern to be the Dem candidate against Nixon.
Ford first ran for congress as a Republican in 1948.
Reagan joined the Republican party officially in 1962, and had given speeches against Medicaid before that.
The timeline doesn't match up for them to be neocons.
The bar is looooow, man.
Ford, Carter, Reagan, then alternating neocons and neolibs? Yeah, that's the sort of bar you might stub a toe on while going over.
For all the hate he got Nixon really wasn't that bad
The more I listen to the Nixon tapes the more I conclude he was a good man (where I would've thought the opposite 10 years ago). His misadventures with Vietnam and price fixing are low spots, but he wasn't responsible for getting us into that war.
Bad presidents don't get an electoral map like this
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/ElectoralCollege1972.svg/500px-ElectoralCollege1972.svg.png
I'd worry about splinters on the bottom of my foot.
People who were Republicans before the late 1960s were not neocons, because neocons were the Democrats who switched sides to the Republicans over foreign policy issues in the 1968 and especially in 1972 over the nomination of McGovern to be the Dem candidate against Nixon.
Ford first ran for congress as a Republican in 1948.
Reagan joined the Republican party officially in 1962, and had given speeches against Medicaid before that.
The timeline doesn't match up for them to be neocons.
You may want to read that again. Then, meaning the ones who came after Reagan.