Timothy Stanley : Wednesday is 100th anniversary of Richard Nixon 's birth . He says GOP could take a page from Nixon on adapting . Nixon was good at getting elected . The fact is that Nixon was often very popular with a lot of regular Americans . He says Nixon was politcially strategic : backed ERA , poverty fighting measures , founded EPA . Stanley : Republicans are not as smart or savvy as Democrats were in the 1960s and 1970s.
Timothy Stanley : Wednesday is 100th anniversary of Richard Nixon 's birth . He says GOP could take a page from Nixon on adapting . Nixon was good at getting elected . He says Nixon was politcially strategic : backed ERA , poverty fighting measures , founded EPA . Stanley : Republicans are not as smart or savvy as Democrats were in the 1960s and 1970s.