The wheel turns and returns

I've been reading a couple of books lately (specifically, Bill Clinton's autobiography and All the President's Men) that give some accounts of past presidential campaigns, and I have a brief observation or two.

• Republican campaigns (who are not, to be fair, necessarily alone in this) have little compunction about using unethical, unfair or even illegal methods to win elections and smear their opponents. They have a history, even if you disregard Watergate.
  
• The favorite Republican presidential campaign strategy is to cast the Democratic opponent and a flip-flopper, indecisive and weak. Get a new strategy, you idiots!
  
• BushCo is using Nixon's anti-Humphrey and anti-McGovern playbook. Grow up, dumbasses.
  

I feel broadsided to realize how shamelessly history is repeating, and how no one really seems to be talking about it.