Ike, LBJ or Reagan could be President today and why wouldn't the same partisan shrieking desensitize the people so they can't distinguish between an "Obama caused Ebola!" shriek and a "Nixon burglarized his rivals and tried to cover it up!" shriek? IMO that's the issue now.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
