1976 Republican National Convention
After giving his acceptance speech, Ford asked Reagan to come and say a few words to the convention; Reagan proceeded to give an eloquent address which virtually overshadowed Ford's speech.
Posted on 07/21/2016 5:56:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Lately I have seen a lie circulated by the left, and by people still enamored by Ted Cruz: That Reagan neither endorsed Ford at the Convention, nor went on to endorse him later.
I present to you proof that the latter is simply a lie.
Nice work Laz. Forward this to Mark Levin.
You are so cruel.
Because of you, those liars and those who post those lies on FR will not vote for Trump!
Sarcasm off.
Kick the butts of the liars and “out them and their lies”.
Keep up the good work Laz.
1976 Republican National Convention
After giving his acceptance speech, Ford asked Reagan to come and say a few words to the convention; Reagan proceeded to give an eloquent address which virtually overshadowed Ford's speech.
Do you suspect Cruz will be running an ad for Trump in the next few months?
Did Reagan take a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee, then start violating that pledge?
Did Reagan tell people to "Vote their conscience", with that exact phrase being the battle-cry of the #NeverFord people for months on end?
You think that frothing establishment hack will care a whit about the truth???!?
We just saw at home the clip of Cruz yelling that be won’t be a “servile puppy”. He looked angry and filled with badge to the point of insanity.
The wife said right away he is going to do something really crazy. He is either s very fake or very disturbed man.
Btw, Trump is NOT the Ford-like candidate . . .Jeb would have been the Ford and then, maybe Cruz could claim a parallel . . .also, of course . . .Reagan was never a self-absorbed jerk.
Filled with hate.
Thank you. I think this one scores a nice 'hit'.
The Reagan speech with Ford and Dole on the stage is in support of Ford’s nomination unlike Cruz’s pissy immolation.
Here it is...
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“Transcript:
Mr. President, Mrs. Ford, Mr. Vice President, Mr. Vice President-to-be, the distinguished guests here, you ladies and gentlemen. I was going to say fellow Republicans here but those who are watching from a distance (including) all those millions of Democrats and independents who I know are looking for a cause around which to rally and which I believe we can give them. Mr. President, before you arrive tonight, these wonderful people, here, when we came in, gave Nancy and myself a welcome. That, plus this, plus your kindness and generosity in honoring us by bringing us down here will give us a memory that will live in our hearts forever.
Watching on television these last few nights Ive seen also the warmth with which you greeted Nancy and you also filled my heart with joy when you did that. May I say some words. There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read and is doesn’t very often amount to much. Whether it is different this time than is has ever been before, I believe the Republican party has a platform that is a banner of bold, unmistakable colors with no pale pastel shades. We have just heard a call to arms, based on that platform.
And a call to us to really be successful in communicating and reveal to the American people the difference between this platform and the platform of the opposing party which is nothing but a revamp and a reissue and a rerunning of a late, late show of the thing that we have been hearing from them for the last 40 years.
If I could just take a moment, I had an assignment the other day. Someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that is going to opened in Los Angeles a hundred years from now, on our Tricentennial.
It sounded like an easy assignment. They suggested I write about the problems and issues of the day. And I set out to do so, riding down the coast in an automobile, looking at the blue Pacific out on one side and the Santa Ynez Mountains on the other, and I couldn’t help but wonder if it was going to be that beautiful a hundred years from now as it was on that summer day.
And then as I tried to write-let your own minds turn to that task. You’re going to write for people a hundred years from now who know all about us, we know nothing about them. We don’t know what kind of world they’ll be living in. And suddenly I thought to myself, If I write of the problems, they’ll be the domestic problems of which the President spoke here tonight; the challenges confronting us, the erosion of freedom taken place under Democratic rule in this country, the invasion of private rights, the controls and restrictions on the vitality of the great free economy that we enjoy. These are the challenges that we must meet and then again there is that challenge of which he spoke that we live in a world in which the great powers have aimed and poised at each other horrible missiles of destruction, nuclear weapons that can in a matter of minutes arrive at each others country and destroy virtually the civilized world we live in.
And suddenly it dawned on me; those who would read this letter a hundred years from now will know whether those missiles were fired. They will know whether we met our challenge.
Whether they will have the freedom that we have known up until now will depend on what we do here. Will they look back with appreciation and say, Thank God for those people in 1976 who headed off that loss of freedom? Who kept us now a hundred years later free? Who kept our world from nuclear destruction?
And if we fail they probably wont get to read the letter at all because it spoke of individual freedom and they wont be allowed to talk of that or read of it.
This is our challenge and this is why were here in this hall tonight. Better than weve ever done before, weve got to quit talking to each other and about each other and go out and communicate to the world that we may be fewer in numbers than we’ve ever been but we carry the message they’re waiting for. We must go forth from here united, determined and what a great general said a few years ago is true: There is no substitute for victory. Mr. President.”
I expected Cruz to endorse Trump plainly for the love of country.
Reagan loved America, Cruz loves Ted, and has now proved it without a doubt.
Trump let him speak just so that he would remove all doubt...just like the old saying.
Trump knew what was going to happen.
“If I, a very unskilled researcher could find that, why not people who claim to be skilled?”
Because you are honest, and they are not.
He ended with a call to leave the convention United, and said
There is no substitute for victory, Mr President [Ford]
No, he never said “Gerald Ford”
Ford was President, and he referred to him as such, “Mr. President.”
I agree.
He’s simply an idiot.
Although I admit, when I titled it, I was pissed so I might not have helped things. I'd probably be more neutral in that headline now.
Can we remove the words "the Cruz Supporters" from the thread title? It will make it more neutral and "will catch more flies with honey than vinegar"
I'll paste this text into an Abuse report. Please don't remove the thread, just alter that title...?
:)
“It’s funny that Cruzers and dems are spinning the same story.”
Look at it as globalists versus Trump and it reveals the battle lines. Transnational, anti-American (or any other nation) sovereignty forces are united against Trump. That also explains much of the aggressive posturing against Russia, and propping of the sickly and oppressive EU.
THANKS GUYS! You rock!
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