Greatest Hits of the Republican Party
Saturday, October 04, 2008 by Dave Winer.
That's a young Rumsfeld at the left. 
And Kissinger has reared his head in the McCain campaign.
Guess who else was lurking in the shadows of the Nixon Presidency? And of course the current Republican standard bearer is completely surrounded by people one step removed from both Bush and Nixon.
We also know that Rove was an associate of convicted Watergate conspirator Donald Segretti.
No wonder so many core ideas of the Nixon era are accepted, unquestioned by the current crop of Republicos.
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