Reagan indeed ran against Gerald Ford. But he ran against him as a positive, alternative choice.
Reagan did not run against Ford through seeking to destroy him.
Reagan's ultimate (and eminently successful) appeal to ALL persons was through his personal manifestation of two things: love and religious faith - and the two are inseparable.
Our current President has these attributes also.
But they have been covered up by the clouds of the storm of the war in Iraq, and by those who hate such manifestations, as they did with Reagan's, and seek to both conceal and obliterate them.
His love of God clearly came first, and from that, as a wonderful practicing Christian, his light so shown that all were impressed...his personal humility, steadfastness on issues of conviction...and his love of truth. A definitive good read on the man's faith:
