Did the Republicans Pick Obama?

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Nixon sure didn't want to run against Sen. Edmund Muskie, that the Watergate scandal revealed dirty tricks to discredit this man, much preferred to run against McGovern. Nixon had the power is chief executive and also had of all the agencies in the US, even the FBI and CIA.

"Before the 1972 election, Muskie was viewed as a frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The nation was at war in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon's war policies (and foreign policy, more generally) promised to be a major issue in the campaign.[2]

The 1972 Iowa caucuses, however, significantly altered the race for the Presidential nomination. Left-wing dark horse candidate, South Dakota Senator George McGovern, made a strong showing in the caucuses, giving his campaign national attention. Although Muskie won the Iowa caucuses, McGovern's campaign left Iowa with momentum. Muskie himself had never participated in a primary election campaign, and it is possible that this led to the downfall of his campaign. Although Muskie went on to win the New Hampshire primary, the victory was only by a small margin, and his campaign faltered.[2]

The collapse of Muskie's momentum early in the 1972 campaign is also attributed to his response to campaign attacks. Prior to the New Hampshire primary, the so-called "Canuck Letter" was published in the Manchester Union-Leader. The letter claimed that Muskie had made disparaging remarks about French-Canadians—a remark likely to injure Muskie's support among the French-Canadian population in northern New England. Subsequently, the paper published an attack on the character of Muskie's wife Jane, reporting that she drank and used off-color language during the campaign. Muskie made an emotional defense of his wife in a speech outside the newspaper's offices during a snowstorm. Though Muskie later stated that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried, shattering the candidate's image as calm and reasoned.[3]

Evidence later came to light during the Watergate scandal investigation that, during the 1972 presidential campaign the Nixon campaign committee maintained a "dirty tricks" unit focused on discrediting Nixon's strongest challengers (see Ratfucking). Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators revealed that the Canuck Letter was a forged document as part of the dirty-tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by the Nixon campaign.[4] In 1972, Hunter S. Thompson, in a classic example of Gonzo journalism, suggested in an article for Rolling Stone Magazine that Muskie was hooked on Ibogaine, an obscure Brazilian drug. Dr. Thompson had made it up and seemed surprised when other News Agencies took the bait and reported it as fact."

More detail can be found at:

http://www.woodstockjournal.com/elections.html

John Dean also has a lot to say on this subject at:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/

Reagan, Bush, even Clinton, and Bush Jr. also fit into this class, feel Clinton was a democrat in name only, and certainly a push to get his wife into the White House, huge voter turn out changed all that around.

Strange to read the heavy support for the likes of Karl Rove that is actually running this country, but people here and everywhere, do not know their history, bet that can't even pass that super simple USCIS civics tests, but are unfortunately blessed with big mouths.

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They didn't call him Tricky ####### for nothin.