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WWRND?

Sorry, I just think that What Would Richard Nixon Do? is a lot more entertaining than What Would Jesus [even Republican Jesus] do? . And with WWRND you even get the obligatory asterisk to note what he would do in private after he did something in public. But sometimes it's actually quite relevant. For example, over on DelawareMorallyOutragedLiberal , nemski makes one of the first common-sense comments about the connection between rhetoric and the recent murders of an Arkansas Democrat and parishioners at a progressive church. nemski says he'd like to see: Right-wing pundits to be outraged over these political shootings. Good question/observation. And since I'm currently reading Richard Reeves' very interesting President Nixon--Alone in the White House , I can answer the question, WWRND?, because he did so in a speech in 1970 at Kansas State University: Those who bomb universities, ambush policemen, who hijack airplanes . . . deserve the contempt of every American. ...