DBWI: Elect Nixon to a Fifth Term?

I would disagree with Nixon being all flowers and sunshine domestically. While on the surface and superficially things look good, he has been attacked for attempting at and succeeding at silencing detractors and protesters, and even of using dictatorial tactics and curtailing civil liberties many times. I mean, we all remember the Kent State Massacre in '70, his multiple attempts to get John Lennon deported, the rumors of him keeping an ongoing enemies list for God's sake, the Buffalo University shootings in '77, rumors of bigotry, enforcement of the McCarran act, the American act, and so on. And foreign policy wise, his handling of Vietnam has been botched. He won back in 1968 on the promise that he'd get us out of there, and American forces are still fighting in South East Asia, even if they are not as numerous as they were back in the 1960's and 1970's. And for what? A long corrupted South Vietnamese government ruled by warlords and corrupt generals?

Jesse Jackson is challenging Hart for the Democratic nomination, so I may indeed vote against Nixon if he gets the nomination. Its shame Ted Kennedy doesn't show any signs of wanting to run. I really think he could clinch the election. As it is now, its only a maybe that anyone else could beat Nixon.
 
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It doesn't matter, all Nixon has to do is go on National Television and call Hart a Communist, and he's won. While the Democrats basically are Pinko Commies and they shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the reigns of power, Nixon should have been willing to allow for a Republican successor to step in in 76 or 80, rather then basically making himself Caesar. This is why we should have elected Goldwater in 1964, and why I will be writing in Ronald Reagan's name on my ballot.
Ronald Reagen? This is still America! People don't want some cowboy actor as president!:mad:
 
/Dons ATL truther hat

Nixon wouldn't even have lasted two terms if not for those damned masks. See, I know the truth. The official story of Woodward and Bernstein's deaths is bogus. They didn't die in any plane crash. The real story that they don't want you to know is that they stumbled on something big involving Nixon and Nixon ordered a mask to blow them up.
 
/Dons ATL truther hat

Nixon wouldn't even have lasted two terms if not for those damned masks. See, I know the truth. The official story of Woodward and Bernstein's deaths is bogus. They didn't die in any plane crash. The real story that they don't want you to know is that they stumbled on something big involving Nixon and Nixon ordered a mask to blow them up.

:rolleyes: Riiiiight, and FDR knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened, aliens landed in New Mexico in the 1940s, and JFK was assassinated by the mafia. Any other conspiracy theories you wish to share with us?
 
Things in America have really taken a turn the worse since the end of Nixon's third term. California is a mess with its corrupt legal system and industry. We know that Nixon won't use federal troops to do anything about cleaning up the state since he gets so much money from the richest man in America. I'd like to think that the Vietnam war would finally come to end, but I doubt it. It makes you wonder what things had of been like if "the luckiest man on earth" wasn't so lucky.


OOC: I know the not so over references to BTTF II are a little ASB but I just couldn't resist. By the way you ever thought that Watchmen and the Alternate 1985 from BTTF II could be the same timeline?

I think your remarks against Mr. Tannen are unseeming! Why, thanks to Mr. Tannen California leads the country in defense contracts and other critical military investments.

We need this commitment to keep South Vietnam from collapsing; although twice as many Americans have died in the quarter century campaign, its well worth keeping Saigon and South Vietnam safe.

OOC: This was also in BttF II.
 
Such ridiculous theories are un-American and bad for this country stirring up bad feeling to the government and placing bad ideas into feeble minds. Probably started by the communists. Are you one of them? President Nixon is a great and honourable man who would never order the death of anyone just to cover up some junior journalists who probably were making up stories and rumours to try and get a reputation.

If you want to discuss that rubbish do it somewhere else. President Nixon will win this election and keep America strong. Such negative and unfounded rumours are destroying this country.

OOC: There probably are some crazy Pro Nixon guys in this timeline.
 
This is why I don't vote. Nixon's just gonna win again anyway, and those rumors that he stole the last two elections, well let's just say I know what it's like to live in a police state. My daughter got arrested for being part of a "Communist group". Communist group? What bullshit. It was an animal rights organization, and she's only 15 for fuck sake. And then there's the Democrats. They seem content to just keep the houses, not even caring about the presidency anymore. If they just ran someone good, like Carter, or even that Clinton guy, then I'd gladly vote again, but as it stands, I've basically accepted the fact that we're living under a Neo-fascist regime, and there's nothing any of us can do about it. It seems like we'll have to wait until the fucker dies to get any god damned progress in this country.
 
This is why I don't vote. Nixon's just gonna win again anyway, and those rumors that he stole the last two elections, well let's just say I know what it's like to live in a police state. My daughter got arrested for being part of a "Communist group". Communist group? What bullshit. It was an animal rights organization, and she's only 15 for fuck sake. And then there's the Democrats. They seem content to just keep the houses, not even caring about the presidency anymore. If they just ran someone good, like Carter, or even that Clinton guy, then I'd gladly vote again, but as it stands, I've basically accepted the fact that we're living under a Neo-fascist regime, and there's nothing any of us can do about it. It seems like we'll have to wait until the fucker dies to get any god damned progress in this country.


Calling America a Neo-Fasicst state is a bit much, but you have a point.The Democrats just can't find a good candidate to run.Carter has run for thenomination in the past, in '76 and in '80, but he failed to get the nomination, and from what he's saying, he won't be running ever again.

Intresting you mention Clinton. I can see him being Pesident, but not until Nixon steps down,or dies, which will have to be soon. A guy as left as Clinton wouldn't stand a chance against Nixon.
 
i think that once Nixon's gone we'll have no one to run this place, i mean Nixon runs the GOP like Stalin, there is he doesn't let any one get good press or anything so they can't challenge him, and the Dems have more or less given up on the idea of a President from their party.

oh has any one heard that Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank was just arrested for "indecent acts" with a man
 

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It is time for abolishing these elections all together! Nixon is our great leader and we do not need elections to confirm that! May he rule forever!
 
/Dons ATL truther hat

Nixon wouldn't even have lasted two terms if not for those damned masks. See, I know the truth. The official story of Woodward and Bernstein's deaths is bogus. They didn't die in any plane crash. The real story that they don't want you to know is that they stumbled on something big involving Nixon and Nixon ordered a mask to blow them up.


You're saying that the National Society of Costume-Wearers is under the pay of Nixon who had Woodward and Bernstein killed? :confused::confused::confused: (OOC: Trying to get this away from the Watchmen since this isn't ASB after all)
 
What does everyone think his many attempts to get John Lennon kicked out of the country. I mean, I know "officially" its not Nixon, but you know Tricky Dick's pulling the strings somehow on this one.
 
Are we talking about the "Watchmen" senario - 1985 and Nixon is President or the alternate Back to the Future 2 "Hill Valley Telegraph" where if you watch very closely you can see an article "Nixon to seek fifth term" under Emmett Brown Committed?
 
Are we talking about the "Watchmen" senario - 1985 and Nixon is President or the alternate Back to the Future 2 "Hill Valley Telegraph" where if you watch very closely you can see an article "Nixon to seek fifth term" under Emmett Brown Committed?

OOC: This is a DBWI. Which means, we all make pretend we're in this universe talking about it and the "what ifs" of Nixon not being a 5 termer. So please, post OOC before posts like that.

The scenario is a totally unique one from those and is not anchored to the canon of either as it isn't set in either universe officially or unless someone says its in one of those universe. Whatever anybody wants to say can happen. And while people have drawn from Watchmen and BTTF2 (both of which Nixon is a five termer in), you are free to post whatever as long as its within reason (IE, for arguments sake, an invasion of Cuba in 1978 is possible; Nixon declaring himself Pharoah and starting to construct pyramids or inventing a time machine is not so muchand outside of that "reason").
 
What does everyone think his many attempts to get John Lennon kicked out of the country. I mean, I know "officially" its not Nixon, but you know Tricky Dick's pulling the strings somehow on this one.

It's just funny to watch to me. The only reason John Lennon dosen't just leave America is beacuse he finds it ammusing to annoy the President. If Nixon payed no attention to him, instead of calling him a "destroyer of American Youth", he'd probably go back to Britian.

For what it's worth, Mr. Nixon is one of Lennons best songs.

Oh No, Mr. Nixon, Don't You Got There Again
Running Around The Bend
Oh No No No

:D
 
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