Opinion of Nelson Rockefeller

[Mechaman]

Perhaps one of the most horrible people to ever be elected into office anywhere in the US at anytime in our nation's history.

No doubt now days people have high and fond memories of the "moderate" Republican Nelson Rockefeller for one of two reasons 1) said person is a liberal who goes gaga over any Republican who agrees with them on half of the issues so they must be great no matter how much of an opportunistic windbag they may be, and 2) HE STOOD FOR CIVIL RIGHTS GUISE!

What I've found over my time on this forum is that so-called "moderates" are perhaps the very worst sort of people.  "Moderates", almost by default, exhibit the worst of both parties.  There was probably no more glaring of an example than Nelson Rockefeller, who wasn't the liberal Republican savior liberal Democrats like to believe he was or the visage of what a sane politician looks like to "moderate" Republicans.  Conservative Republicans and the like hate the guy for the wrong reasons.  People build up this image of Rockefeller as some sort of defender of all the peoples and of all the rights when in fact he was, in more cases than a few, the sort of person who almost enjoys trampling on the rights of people.  In other words, like many politicians of his time, he was an authoritarian scumbag masquerading as a "pragmatic idealist".