THE RIGHT ORDER | 2005-11-30
I said below that that marvelous coincidence, that the first president and vice president to resign under pressure in American history resigned in the same year for entirely different reasons, occurred in "the right order."
Vice President Agnew, whom ALL the national media hated more than any vice president in history, resigned on October 10, 1973, just BEFORE Nixon, the president the national media ALL hated more than any other president in American history, resigned.
This is another fantastic coincidence that every respectable conservative has to say that he accepts.
What do I mean by "the right order?"
If Agnew's resignation had been delayed, he would have become president. For President Agnew to have been hounded out of office by the media right after President Nixon had been hounded out of office by the press would have raised some eyebrows.
Too much of a good thing. Every respectable conservative would STILL have to be insisting that it was an accident.
BEFORE Nixon's resignation, the media was full of news about Watergate. So the resignation of the vice president was a relatively minor news event, whereas at any other time in American history it would have been THE headline.
But PRESIDENT Agnew's resignation would have been front page news right after PRESIDENT Nixon's resignation was front-page news. Even the drooling worshippers of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather woule have been a little impressed by that.
Respectable conservatives would NEVER have noticed that, or they would have lost their livelihood. But they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the national media.
Real people, even LIBERAL real people, might have smelled a rat.
So it was critical that Agnew resign BEFORE Nixon, at the height of the Watergate scandal.
How lucky it was for media credibility that Agnew happened to resign BEFORE Nixon!
How lucky for the national media that Agnew was forced to resign in the very same year that Nixon's fall became inevitable.
Liberals have a lot of luck that way.
My boss, congressman John Ashbrook, who had never had a serious illness in his life, died at just the right time. When I attended his funeral it turned out that the casket they buried did not have John's body in it. The police had kept it for further investigation.
Like me, the police had a lot of experience with just that sort of "accidental" death. John Ashbrook died from a hemmorage from a tiny puncture in his stomach, the sort of thing you got from swallowing crushed glass in the old days, though the methods are a little more sophisiticated now.
Once again, John died at EXACTLY the right time. There was no doubt he would win the primary for United States Senate to face Senator Howard Metzenbaum. The polls showed that he was gaining on Metzenbaum.
If John had died a couple of months later he would have been Metzenbaum's official Republican opponent. When a fanatical leftist's opponent dies under circumstances that strike the police as extremely suspicious, everybody but respectable conservatives smells a rat.
So John's death, like Agnew's resignation, occurred at just the right time, since the public does not keep up with poll results for POTENTIAL opponents.
Liberal luck is PHENOMENAL!
If you think that is all the luck liberals have, think again.
Congressman Sonny Buono was winning the Republican primary to run against one of California's twin female liberal senators, I forget which. In the poll matchups, he was gaining on her.
Then, before the primary, Old Sonny, a lifelong skier, went out all alone on the slopes in the middle of the night and slammed into a tree.
Here we have another incredible coincidence.
Never before in history has a candidate for nomination who had a clear chance in the polls of beating the incumbent suddenly died before getting the nomination. And here were TWO of them!
And BOTH of them died before the primary!
These great historical oddities, the resignation of Agnew and Nixon in 1974 and the death of John Ashbrook and Sonny Buono, ought to go into the Book of Records.
But nobody even mentions them.
I wonder why.