At 09:54 PM 3/15/02 -0800 Doug wrote:
>ROTFL!!! The Republicans forced Nixon to resign? Because he was
>lying? Your to be excused for thinking that the two episodes
>(Watergate and Lewinski) are similar in scope since you weren't
>around back then, but you should check your history books again.
>Nixon wasn't forced to resign because he lied.
Isn't the old conclusion "the coverup is worse than the crime" a direct
result from Watergate? It seems apparent to me that it was the tapes that
revealed the coverrup, ie the lieing, that finally damned Nixon.
>Yuh. Here's an example of how important honesty was to the Reagan
Administration:
Irrevelent because most Republicans don't believe that Reagan lied.
Sure, I know you believe that Reagan lied, but you probably also believe
that the indictments just days before the election weren't politically
motivated. At any rate, the Iran-Contra incident does not tell us how the
Republican Party treats liars because the facts in the Iran-Contra case are
in dispute.
Democrats on the other hand, are on the record on numerous occasions
explaining why lieing isn't important and is not a "high crime and
misdemeanor." I am unaware of a similar body of statements existing for
Republicans - which leads back to the inevitable conclusion - Republicans
are somewhat unusual in considering honesty to be an important quality in a
President. Not that Republicans insist upon 100% honesty, just that they
are unusual in considering it to be important.
JDG
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