"Greatest danger from electing Clinton president may be her cadre of fawning aides.
It has taken almost 50 years, but the Democrats have finally found their inner Nixon.
Indeed, Democrats appear to have reached the type of moral compromise that Nixon waited, unsuccessfully, for Republicans to accept:
Some 71% of Democrats want Clinton to run even if indicted.
While Obama could be criticized for embracing Nixon’s imperial presidency model, his personality could not be more different from his predecessor.
Clinton however is the whole Nixonian package.
On a policy level, her predilection for using executive and military power is even coupled with praise for (and from) Nixon’s secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
However, it is on a personality level that the comparison is so striking and so unnerving.
Clinton, like Nixon, is known to be both secretive and evasive.
She seems to have a compulsive resistance to simply acknowledging conflicting facts or changes in position.
She only makes admissions against interest when there is no alternative to acknowledging the truth in a controversy..."
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