Yes, just as Gerald Ford had trouble producing an agenda based on truth. One of the lessons of 1976 that I took out of it is that sometimes it is a good thing when milktoastrepublicans lose.
Gerald Ford was every DemonRat's favorite Republican. Lyndon Johnson got it right when he said Ford had "played too much football without a helmet." Ayn Rand also had it right when she created Wesley Mouch, aptly described as "the zero at the meeting point of forces." Gerald Ford, who appointed John Paul Stevens, one of the most vile liberals on the Supreme Court, could be accurately described the same way.