Posted on 02/07/2006 11:23:53 AM PST by sittnick
Considerably more restrained than DU, but almost as inane, Christine Todd Whitman's mypartytoo.com web site is an entertaining diversion for those who want analyze the RINO mindset. Many of threads are empty, most of them are sparse, the only uniting theme seems to be a contemptuous attitude towards practicing Christians taking over "their" party.
Here is an excerpt from a thread entitled the Ford Presidency. (one writer had the nerve to call Jimmy Carter "a anti-choice liberal") ----------------------------------------------------------- The Ford Presidency MeanOldGrouch | 12/23/2005 1:06:34 PM I wasn't aware that President Ford was 92 already. And I am pleased to hear he came out of the hospital quickly when he was put in recently. grigs29 | 12/12/2005 1:41:00 PM I am only 18, but I too feel the same way. My mom (a communist) respected Gerald Ford. And in hindsight we can call him a great leader that did what he thought was best for our Country. And when he lost in 76, we got stuck with a anti-choice liberal that hurt us. This shows that one issue doesn't make a good president. rjackson | 12/5/2005 8:14:08 AM Well saID. He was an unfortunate victim of Nixon's mistakes. MeanOldGrouch | 11/29/2005 2:03:45 PM I thought the Gerald Ford was one of the best people we ever had in government. He worked hard and never wavered from his own convictions like most politicians do. I was furious when he lost the election in 1976. Few people recognized the fact that he never wanted the Presidency but stepped forward when his country called him to serve. I don't know him as a person, but even when I was in my 20's I recognized his sacrifice. I respect him more than any President in my lifetime because of that monumental act of selflesness. If you read these boards, I want to send a personal message: Thank you, Gerald Ford.
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Gerald Ford gave us John Paul Stevens. End of story.
"When the moon hits your a eye like a..."
To say that someone who accepted the VP position, ran for President, and then when offered the VP position under Reagan said he would only do so if he were a "co-president" (as I've read) "never wanted to be president" is sheer lunacy.
Someone remind me, what did Gerald Ford accomplish?
He was the inventor of the "WIN" button.
Empty heads. Let the whining start...
The guy was a mediocre president. He failed to Whip Inflation Now and finished the pullout from Vietnam. I mean, you really can't say much about a guy who lost an election to Jimmy Carter. But then, with the cloud hanging over the Republican Party after Watergate (ill-deserved as it may have been), he didn't have much political capital to move on anyway. He did sign the Tax Reduction Act of 1975, though, which Jimmah quickly reversed.
I understand that Dims refer to their moderates as "Republicrats."
It would if DINOs existed, but they don't.
Well he won the Chevy Chase Award for Schmeelness..
He was the Al Gore of the Republican Party..
Jimmah Carter without the smile..
Bob Dole without the athletic prowess..
The Richard Simmons of the..... No thats enough..
Ford was a benign caretaker, meant to settle everyone down after the Watergate scandal and make them forget the evil Nixon. He didn't attempt to accomplish anything worthwhile for the country during his presidency, and in that, he succeeded. That he's being lauded as some kind of bright light of Republicanism by these nuts at Whitman's blog is just ridiculous, to say the least.
In San Antonio, he tried to eat a tamale with the shuck still on.
Ford played football at Michigan and skied until in his seventies. He was a good athlete. Caretaker president who didn't stand for much, but a good athlete.
This pretty much describes the only way a Republican can gain the respect of a liberal. Lose.
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Exactly. After Bush, Sr. had lost to Clinton, all of the sudden the libs treated him with respect. Same with Bob Dole. Before the election, they treated him with the most vicious hatred. After the election when he too lost to Clinton, they were calling him respectable.
In the 1998 Illinois governor's race, the Democrat ran to the right of his so-called "Republican" opponent on almost every issue.
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