It shouldn't surprise us that whenever the Washington Post looks at a Republican,they see the face of Richard Nixon staring back at them. No newspaper was more identified with Nixon's downfall so it should come as no surprise that when looking at Rudy Giuliani, the Post becomes very helpful in pointing out all the similarites between the candidate and the disgraced ex-President. Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson writes:

In his elections, Nixon appealed to conservatives and the country as a culture warrior who was not a moral or religious conservative. "Permissiveness," he told key aides, "is the key theme," and Nixon pressed that theme against hippie protesters, tenured radicals and liberals who bad-mouthed America. This kind of secular, tough-on-crime, tough-on-communism conservatism gathered a "silent majority" that loved Nixon for the enemies he made. By this standard, Giuliani is a Nixon Republican. He is perhaps the most publicly secular major candidate of either party -- his conflicts with Roman Catholic teaching make him more reticent on religion than either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. But as a prosecutor and mayor of New York, he won conservative respect for making all the right enemies: the ACLU, advocates of blasphemous art, purveyors of racial politics, Islamist mass murderers, mob bosses and the New York Times editorial page.