Comments about ‘Watergate's true lasting legacy is still a giant question mark’

I can't agree with Ms. Parker that most Americans remember the details of the series of abuses we call "Watergate". There was a long list of prominent people involved, directly and indirectly, on both sides, and it took a full two years to get to the climax of Nixon's resignation. It wasn't just Maureen Dean and Sam Ervin. It was complicated, with some things unexplained to this day.

One Watergate leftover still causes me pain. That's when some cynic opines that "Well, they all do it, but Nixon was the only one who got caught." It wasn't true then or now, but way too many feel that they, too, must carry this dark cynicism like a badge of honor. Their current mantra is to say "Well, it doesn't surprise me at all. What do you expect?" Better. I expect better than Watergate, Iran-Contra or Abu Garaib.

Watergate is such a double standard icon! When Democrats are involved in scandals they mostly get swept under the rug, never reported or investigated and forgotten, even recently: Fast and furious scandal, GSA scams, Secret Service prostitution, White House Iran intelligence leaks, Solyndra fraud, Hillary’s missing documents caper, cattlegate , Whitewater debacle and on and on it goes! If a Republican leader does something wrong, “oh what pain we feel”. If a Democrat leader does something wrong, it was not that big of a deal or they spin their way out of it and the perpetrator is admired by his own!