Worse Than Nixon?

After reading Spiro Agnew's Wikipedia page, I've come to the conclusion that comparing Palin to Agnew gives her too much credit. She is not nearly as likable or qualified as Nixon's hatchet man, who worked with the benefit of Safire-penned alliteration and had to resign after pleading no contest to accepting bribes while he was the governor of Maryland. However it is true that, like Palin, Agnew's electoral role was to rile up right wing extremists and bash the media, and he was the last vice president who, like Palin, had not met with a foreign leader before being elected.* (He is probably the only vice president since the invention of air travel not to have met a foreign leader before being elected.)


*No one seems to be certain that this is true about Agnew, but it seems to be a fair assumption.