MARK LEVIN: FACT: Reagan never endorsed Gerald Ford at any time

Mark Levin Facebook & Twitter ^ | July 20, 2016 | Mark Levin

[conservative98]

MARK LEVIN: FACT:Reagan never endorsed Gerald Ford at any time during the 1976 GOP convention or campaign

The Reagans were furious at how the Ford campaign had attacked them. Paul Manafort will know this as he was a top delegate counter for Ford and against Reagan at that convention. Ford won the nomination, of course, then lost to Jimmy Carter. Four years later, Reagan won the nomination, won the general election in a landslide, and the rest is history.

[conservative98]

Mark R. Levin ‏@marklevinshow 56m56 minutes ago

FACT:Reagan never endorsed Gerald Ford at any time during the 1976 GOP convention or campaign...

https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/755777093909315588

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Timothy McClain ‏@TimothyMcClain1 56m56 minutes ago
@marklevinshow Mark, you know Cruz lost right? Why are you acting like Jeb and Kasich?

Thatsalrighty ‏@Thatsalrighty 11m11 minutes ago
Cruz is NOT Reagan. @marklevinshow You want America 2suffer through Hillary hell just so Cruz can run in 2020? What the hell is wrong w you?

Steven ‏@Right_NJ 53m53 minutes ago
.@marklevinshow ...ultimately helping the Democrats elect Carter. What's your point? We need to help Hillary get elected?

Nancy Lash Freiermut ‏@freiermut 51m51 minutes ago
@marklevinshow If Cruz doesn't endorse Trump tonight, I will never vote for him even for dog catcher. He signed Pledge. Word is your bond!

LivingTheReality ‏@PeteCostanza84 22m22 minutes ago
@marklevinshow Fact : Cruz isn't Reagan. Not by a long shot!

Tomchapman ‏@tjc1943 23m23 minutes ago
@marklevinshow lame excuse

Patricia Ann ‏@PattyAnn640 28m28 minutes ago
@marklevinshow And Carter won, right? Your point is out of context, sir. We're living in an entirely different world than we did in 1976

Wayne Conley ‏@countrymiles 53m53 minutes ago
@marklevinshow love the past ,need to move on to new.

Statealum ‏@msstatealum 57m57 minutes ago
@marklevinshow But did Reagan give his word to support the nominee? Don't get me wrong, I was Cruz supporter all the way but #keepyourword

[God luvs America]

and as a result we ended up with Jimmy Carter...

[Wright Wing]

And Ted Cruz is no Ronald Reagan..

[Fantasywriter]

Nor, I’d guess, had Reagan ***pledged*** to endorse Ford.

[Jim from C-Town]

Not even close!

Cruz would get wiped out by Clinton. He couldn’t even get close to the popularity of Trump and only came in second because he held out the longest.

[ConservativeDude]

I’m sorry, but Reagan absolutely endorsed Ford in 76, and campaigned for him.

I have no earthly idea where Levin came up with this. Pretty poor memory, though.

[KC_Conspirator]

Levin has lost his mind.

[ConservativeDude]

Maybe Levin has some sort of mealy-mouthed way of saying that this is not an endorsement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2q9LjMxPcY

[jalisco555]

Interesting. One of my earliest political memories was Reagan taking to the podium at the 1968 GOP convention after it nominated Nixon (recall Reagan was a late entry in the race) calling on the delegates to make the vote unanimous. I remember thinking he looked and sounded very impressive.

[TomGuy]

The sour-grapes whine coalition is still whining.

[ConservativeDude]

we live in an amazing era. In ten seconds, I found the exact commercial on youtube that I remembered seeing back then.

I wonder if Levin has ever heard of “research” or the “internet” or possibly “YouTube”?

I guess not. It’s all about just clogging up twitter with some idiotic outburst.

I guess he also forgets that Reagan offered Ford the VP spot in 80.....

[McGruff]

Did Reagan sign a pledge to? Ted did.

[conservative98]

Mark, Reagan for Ford ad ‘76.......

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Maybe Levin has some sort of mealy-mouthed way of saying that this is not an endorsement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2q9LjMxPcY

8 posted on 7/20/2016, 12:01:40 PM by ConservativeDude

[odawg]

We’ll have to assume that what Cruz has in mind is to go on stage and, after some divinely inspired speech, make the entire convention and nation suffer the pangs of regret for not choosing the glorious being that he really is.

[1Old Pro]

Totally different times and scenario's - Cruz cannot creat a Reagan "moment", he is only slitting his own political throat.

Vice President Gerald Ford inherited the presidency but was a weakened candidate after he pardoned Nixon in September 1974. It was in this context that Reagan challenged Ford for the Republican nomination in 1976. Ford entered the race with the endorsement of almost the entire party political establishment—Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a longtime friend of Reagan, was the only U.S. senator to back him against Ford.

[Stingray51]

I had Levin on yesterday evening because it was the only AM live feed of the Convention that I could find. He whined about Trump incessantly and completely mischaracterized Trump's positions (particularly on trade where he contends that Trump is somehow against international commerce because he thinks certain “free trade” agreements have been detrimental to US workers...). Further, Levin groused that he is tired of people telling him it is an either-or choice between Hillary and Trump, yet he offered ZERO explanation as to why it would make any sense to refuse to support Trump over Hillary. This is what happens when hosts get too full of themselves. Plus the guy screams the entire time. He's just unlistenable.

[BenLurkin]

So what?

Talk about apples and oranges.

[mirvin]

That’s an endorsement?

[TomGuy]

Levin has found solace living in the past. He has relived events around the 1976 convention over and over and over, as if reliving it again will make it happen again.

[Shortstop7]

Levin and Cruz are both dead to me.