Looking at the budget cuts/ Richard Nixon would be considered far left in todays climate

[sasha031]

[inna]

1. ...where the center is being falsely re-defined by so called public servants

as being somewhere between right and extreme right (to paraphrase today's Krugman).

[cali]

2. no he wouldn't. not by any sane definition.

he was a racist pig warmonger.

[sasha031]

3. I am not saying he wasn't a racist warmonger

he did create the Endangered Species Act, EPA, Equal Rights Amendment.

You are missing the point. What I'm saying the dialog and policies have moved so far to the right, that the middle no longer exists.

[Siouxmealso]

6. He also

championed wage and price controls as a way to combat inflation. Even though no one then offered much opposition to his idea, the republican party today would shout "socialist!" if anyone proposed such a thing.

[madrchsod]

4. nixon was to right of a liberal republican.

he was`t as extreme as the majority of the republicans of today.

ike would be considered as a democrat today

[sasha031]

5. Ike would be a liberal Democrat,

[FLPanhandle]

7. Nixon as a person was an asshole

As a politican he wasn't considered far right even back then. You can make a case that he was about as liberal as Clinton was.