Deep Throat - I guess you had to be there

To be frank, I am much more interested in the Linda Lovelace Deep Throat, then the Mark Felt Deep Throat. Am I the only one? Watergate happened before I was born. To me, it looks like it was all part of the liberal hysteria of the 60's and 70's that we look back on and say, "Yeah, well, of course politics is corrupt. It always has been, always will."

Imagine finding out some new detail about Monica Lewinsky in 20 years. It is almost embarassing how overhyped this country was. Liberals hated Nixon before Watergate, and hated him after. It is not like anyone changed their minds after it was discovered that someone stole someone else's files. Now people have fallen to the old party lines in defending and castigating him.

Someone who stays anonomous and risks little is no hero. But he did something that resembled getting the truth out, however improper it was for someone in his position. So he was not really a bad person. He did bring down the Nixon White House, and there is no real honor there. Nixon was a pretty good president from where I stand. He signed Title IX giving women equal rights, he got us out of Vietnam, he prevented the Escalation of the Yom Kipur War, and a few other useful things. This is way more than can be said for the Democrat before him who got us in to Vietnam, had a lousy civil rights record, and almost got us in to nuclear wars.

My undergraduate college professors seemed to have a firm sense of hyperbole. I never got the hatred of Nixon till this past election - then it all made sense: it was completely hysterically irrational. They just need to hate Republicans. Sad sad people actually.