Saturday, September 8, 2018
There’s an old song about the death of outlaw Jesse James
that refers to his killer as “the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard.”
In the Watergate scandal, John Dean is the dirty little coward
that set up Mr. Nixon.
Dean not only helped establish the burglars that broke in
the Watergate Hotel twice but oversaw its operations and became a key figure in
the coverup after the burglars (sometimes referred to as The Plumbers) were caught,
and while Dean still worked for the White House, secretly manipulating the system
from within to shift blame to Nixon. Later, Dean became the principal witness
upon which the Watergate investigators based their findings – at times, the
only witness—but because Dean was too small a fish to fry, Democrats and media
let him get away with it, in order to get at their real target and bring down a
president they hated.
So, it is not surprising that almost 50 years later, the
Democrats would dust off this old soldier and send him back into the trenches
to come after another president the Democrats are desperate to be rid of.
Dean along with Bernstein and Woodward helped create the
biggest political myth since the justification of the Union’s war on the South.
Dean became the vehicle that allowed Democrats to unjustly
unseat an unpopular president, and to build a myth so completely convincing
that Watergate has become the symbol of political corruption recognized world-wide,
when in fact it is a myth that rivals Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in a story of
political betrayal.
Democrats clearly have brought him out in what appears to be
part of their effort to shape Trump into another Richard Nixon, and to implant
in the public’s mind the connection between what Democrats used to bring down
Nixon with the hopes of making it publicly acceptable to bring down Trump in
the same way – as well as to destroy Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court (the
way Democrats have tried, sometimes successfully, in the past.)
After all, if the public believed Dean’s bullshit once,
maybe the public with media’s help will take his testimony as more than just another
Judas sending Trump to Pilate for judgment, and time and myth making Dean more
acceptable than he was back in the heyday when nearly everybody saw him for
what he was, a rat deserting a ship he helped sink.
What his motivation for appearing before the nominating committee
is questionable, since it is unlikely the Democrats can still hold over his
head the many other charges Dean’s critics claim he may have been guilty of but
was never charged with after he agreed to testify against Nixon.
Geoff Shepard, who worked as legal counsel in the Nixon White
House, claims in his book on Watergate that Dean could have faced many more
serious criminal charges had he not agreed to testify against Nixon on behalf
of the Democrats – often serving as the only witness to many of the crimes
Nixon was accused of.
Dean’s appearance at the nominating process is just one more
piece in a political chess game in which desperate Democrats hope to derail
once more a candidate that does not fit in with their politically correct agenda
and part of a campaign to win votes against GOP candidates in the upcoming
mid-term elections. By resurrecting the Watergate Myth with Dean and with Woodward,
the Democrats are creating a new myth they hope will ultimately bring down the
Trump Administration.
Dean and Woodward appearing on the contemporary national
scene is a lot like a Civil War reenactment in which Democrats hope to retail
the mythological tale of the corruption they came was typical under Nixon and
by comparison, made lightning strike twice in comparing Trump to Nixon,
desperate to convince the America people of this new lie in order to regain
power for themselves.
Dean’s testimony follows closely on the heals of the release
of a very questionable book by Watergate warrior Bob Woodward, who along with
Bernstein became key pieces in the originally Democratic political coup against
Nixon.
But Shepard challenges the accepted doctrine that forms the
basis of the Watergate myth, and claims that it was Dean who orchestrated Watergate,
and then in a passive-aggressive reversal, reinvented himself to become the chief
witness the Democrats used against Nixon, plotting this reversal even while he
was still working as a legal advisor to Nixon – to whom Dean gave advise that
actually built the Democratic case against Nixon, when others tried to steer
Nixon to other courses of action.
It was John Dean, according to Shepard who recruited Libby,
the head of the Plumbers, knowing full well and because of Libby’s previous
illegal activities in break-ins associated with the Pentagon Papers. It was
Dean who eventually approved the third and least drastic of Libby’s plans to go
after the Democratic Party ahead of the 1972 election, which included at least
two break-ins at the Watergate Hotel, and Dean who helped set up the funding needed
for a shitload of dirty deeds associated with this and other members of the
Nixon reelection campaign.
Nixon, according to Shepard, thought the break in at the
Watergate Hotel was “dumb” because he claimed there wasn’t anything in the
Democratic National headquarters worth the effort. At it turned out, the headquarters
was used primarily for finding sex partners for prominent Democratic officials.
While Woodward and Bernstein and Democratic backed national
media made it seem like the break-in was unusual, break-ins, bugging and other
dirty tricks were widely used by the Democrats – which is one of the reason Nixon
did not disapprove of them when used against the Democrats. He saw some of the
political antics such as sewing confusion in the Democratic camp as getting
even for similar tricks the Democrats had used against him.
The fact is LBJ was notorious for bugging his enemies as
well as his friends, and Bobby Kennedy, used the Justice Department he headed
to investigate and monitor girl friends he apparently dated while married.
Both parties were engaged in many of the same dirty tricks
Nixon – according to Dean – authorized all in an attempt to keep or gain political
power – and if you look at the tricks Hillary Clinton used to hijack the
national Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 election, the dirty tricks didn’t
end with Watergate.
But Dean’s testimony along with questionable media reporting
managed to build a case against Nixon which he could not exonerate himself
from, partly because of misguided loyalty to people he had surrounded himself
with, partly because media – as they are doing today – built a cage around him
so that any denial looked like an admission of guilt. This allowed Dean to
shift blame onto Nixon for crimes Nixon didn’t likely commit.
So, it is only fitting that the Democrats should dust off old
relics like Dean and Woodward in order to build their case against another
president, hoping to build a similar box around Trump from which Trump won’t be
able to escape or at worst, convince the American people to vote down GOP
candidates in order to limit the power Trump has if he manages to avoid being
taken down by contemporary versions of Dean today.
Democrats appear to believe if they put back in place all
the same pieces of the original conspiracy, history might repeat itself.
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