The history of traitorous election skullduggery on the part of Republicans is long and nearly continuous back to at least 1968.

I remember discussing Nixon in the Army and telling my fellow 82d paratroopers I was grateful to him for getting us out of Vietnam. Little did I know he sabotaged LBJ's peace initiative with Vietnam:

"It wasn't until after 2007, when the Nixon Presidential Library finally opened Haldeman's notes to the public, that I stumbled upon a smoking gun in the course of conducting research for my biography of Nixon: four pages of notes his brush-cut aide had scrawled late on an October evening in 1968. '!Keep Anna Chennault working on SVN,' Haldeman wrote, as Nixon barked orders into the phone. They were out to 'monkey wrench' Johnson's election eve initiative, Nixon said. And it worked."

"The following account of the Chennault Affair is the most up-to-date and revealing exposure of Nixon's intrigue'the product of hours of archival research, open records requests and a little luck. Documenting this cynical maneuver is important for history's sake, but the fact that it took nearly 50 years for Nixon's secret to emerge also offers vital lessons for today."

politico.com - Nixon vietnam candidate conspired with foreign power win election

Rude awakening # 6,272 in my life.