Nixon Apologists Make Their Rounds

With the revelation of "Deep Throat's" identity (Mark Felt), Pat Buchanan and his ilk have gotten more face time than ever. Blinded partisans such as Charles Colson, Pat Buchanan, G. Gordon Liddy, Ann Coulter, etc., have labeled Felt a turncoat. These perennial Nixon apologists became irrelevant to any serious political debate long ago. In a bizarre perversion of ethics these people assert that loyalty trumps justice or truth. Such thinking has a comfortable home in the Mafia but not in a society of laws. Would these would-be rehabilitators of Nixon's legacy accuse an undercover agent - who later busted the drug ring he had infiltrated - a "snake" as Buchanan did Felt? Of course, for Ann Coulter, merely disagreeing with her venomous reactionary extreme brand of conservatism makes one a traitor.