"The more I think about it...."

Perhaps you should think less about it...it might work better !!

nope. you got it wrong....

projecting nixon and comparing hillary to him is based on NOTHING.

This diary is just as much garbage on here as it was on Kos. Delete this crap and quit comparing Democrats with Nixon.

This Obama worship at any cost is going to destroy our party.

Nixon during the middle of watergate maybe, remember in 1968 Richard was viewed as being far more honest than Hillary is today (I think Cheney has Higher honesty numbers with the General public than Hillary does).

What is your evidence for this argument?

So glad I dropped by, sure did learn a lot.

Obama is the one moving right to appease the opposition. He calls it "unity" - I call it triangulation. I've learned from obama supporters that's a bad thing. He's not supporting universal healthcare, he's repeating rightwing talking points on social security and he's hedging on pulling one or two brigades a month out of Iraq.

Hillary isn't moving right. Obama is. You're projecting.

Since you've clearly not paid any attention to her voting record, why don't you check it out at Progressive Punch and define which aspect of it leaves you feeling (because it certainly doesn't involve thinking) like she isn't committed to a progressive vision.

What do you want to bet you don't have the nerve to do it? You'll find some cheesy excuse why you shouldn't go check out Progressive Punch, how they rate people, and how she rates.

http://www.progressivepunch.org/members. jsp?search=selectName&member=NYI& ;chamber=Senate&zip=&x=52&y= 6

Hmmm but Nixon WON in 1968 and was re-elected in a huge landslide...

Anyway this is silly, the man Nixon loathed George McGovern is all for Hillary

Oh yeah? Well YOUR candidate is just like Hitler! /snark

Honestly, do you really think you are convincing anybody with this kind of tripe? Did you expect anybody to say "Gee Toddwell, I never thought of it that way. You've really opened my mind. Hillary IS just like Tricky Dick - how did I not see it before?"

All you are going to get with petty, superficial hit pieces like this is a snub from every Clinton supporter, and maybe a few attaboys from the most juvenile cadre of Obama fans. You knew that when you posted it, didn't you? So why bother? Why not try posting something that will provoke thought, rather than knee jerk reactions? If you scan the comment sections around MyDD lately, you will see that we already have plenty of knee jerk reactions.

By the way, to anybody else who reads this comment, if the shoe fits ...

...on the use of the phrase "thrown under the bus" -- and its variants? It's really gotten out of control. If not for the english language, do for public transportation. Thank you!

As an Obama supporter, I think this diary is completely inappropriate.  Nixon trashed the constitution and maliciously rifled through the private files of innocent Americans.  Hillary has and will not do anything of a similiar nature.  I understand what you're trying to say, but to make that comparision will only engender anger and will not prove your point at all.

I really do not feel like winning an election with somebody who is not ideologically committed to the progressive movement in the same way that Richard Nixon was not committed to the Conservative movement.

How about those new states Nixon brought into the fold?  he made inroads with the south that helped bring them to Reagan and eventually have stayed with them ever since. In '68, he carried traditionally Democratic states like the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, and beat Humphrey in a number of Deep South states, second to Wallace. And Wallace's votes would have probably gone more to Nixon due to the law and order stances he had, and his racial positions. In 1972, he got AT LEAST 60 percent in EVERY SOUTHERN state, and at the time, the best southern performance for a Republican ever, even better than the first south-honored GOPer, Goldwater. His southern strategy was the foundation for the Reagan movement, which was largely built on white backlash to civil rights. Without Nixon, Reagan would never have happened. Nixon was a vital part of the conservative movement.

I actually liken him to Bill Clinton, who like Nixon, went in the opposite of his party at times, but brought new states, which hadn't voted Democratic in years to the fold which are now essential parts to his party's formula, as did Nixon with the South for the Republicans.

Hillary is more our George Bush Sr. she has party connections, and is related to other famed politicians. She is with the party line, but perceived by her side to be more moderate, by the other side to be a radical, like Bush Sr. she actually is pretty similar on the stump to him too, in style.