A Pair for History - Presidents Ford and Reagan.

National Review Online ^ | December 27, 2006 | Paul Kengor

[pissant]

Gerald Ford did what he could. He was a classy man and a patriot.

RWR saved the world.

[onyx]

From 1974-79, during those Ford-Carter years,...





Better to have the Carter years stand disastrously on their own.

[sine_nomine]

Kissinger-Carter would be appropriate: two traitors.

[onyx]

I prefer Carter stand charged all by himself. I can't write what I think about him because of the ban on swearing.

[pgkdan]

I think Gerald Ford may have saved the Presidency but I know that Ronald Reagan saved the world.

[Tanniker Smith]

I remember the talk of the Dream Ticket: Reagan supposedly wanted Ford for his VP. (Probably the earliest "trial balloon" that I can recall, years before I ever heard the expression.)

[43north]

In the harsh light of history Gerald Ford will be seen as a man who kind of fell into the Presidency. He then got whupped by a dhimmiecrat who was one of the most disastrous occupants of the Oval Office ever (right up there with BJ).

IMHO, Mr. Ford was a country club pubbie and is not fit to polish Ronaldus Magnus's wings in Heaven.

[Reagan Man]

Disgruntled with Ford’s pursuit of détente with the Soviets, Ronald Reagan in 1975 decided to seek the seemingly impossible: to challenge the incumbent president from his own party, thereby breaking Reagan’s own “Eleventh Commandment:” “Thou Shall Not Speak Ill of Another Republican.”

The truth will set you free. Stop the historic revisionism.

[Coldwater Creek]

Baloney, If President Reagan had of sought revenge for our Marines, we might not be in the mess that we are today.

[Coldwater Creek]

You are more right than you might know about Ford and the country club.

His greatest accomplishment was at a country club right here in Memphis. Hit a hole in one.

[jshermn]

A hole in one. What did he put a hole in?

[Coldwater Creek]

Sorry, it was early. A hole in one on the golf course.

[Peach]

Oh, good one.

So because some columnist says that Reagan broke his own 11th Commandment, not to speak ill of other Republicans, which, btw, he did for the purpose of WORLD PEACE, you think you're entitled to trash Bush. ROFL

You're a piece of work alright.

[Reagan Man]

Obviously, you're still having problems with the historic record. I've told you before. The slogan "11th commandment" was created in 1966 by former California GOP Chairman Gaylord Parkinson. It was used to counter attacks from Reagan's closet GOP rival for Governor. That would be liberal San Francisco Mayor George Christopher. I posted the link to that Paul Kengor article because he wrote two great books on Ronald Reagan. Kengor knows Reagan well. Reagan engaged in serious attacks on Pres Ford`s poor governing record during the 1976 GOP primary season, and right up through the GOP Convention. The 11the commandment was a fallacy then, and still is today. Reagan may have pulled it out of his bag of rhetorical slogans, when it suited him.

Even when the truth is presented to you, you're still proving to be out of touch with political reality. You're so enamored and infatuated with George W.Bush, you can't accept the factual truth. First off, Bush is not above legitimate criticism. No President is. Most folks realize that Bush is a more polarizing figure then he is admired. Again, that was my point.

[Revenge of Sith]

Just because Reagan ran against Ford doesn't mean that he spoke ill against him.

[Peach]

Exactly. I agree with that. But you'll see upthread that a freeper thinks because Reagan ran against Ford that he MUST have had problems and spoken badly about Ford. LOL

[Peach]

Gee, you'll have to show me where I ever said that Bush was above legitimate criticism. Be sure to show me the link to where I ever even intimitated that.

You're the one who goes hysterical when someone says the slightest negative thing about Reagan. And if you don't think Reagan was polarizing during his tenure as president, you're revising history.

[Reagan Man]

Suffice it to say, whenever any FReeper engages in legitimate criticism of your "sainted" President, you Bushies pop out of the woodwork with one irrational post after another. After I had posted a factual statement, that Bush was a more polarizing figure then he is an admired figure, you went bonkers.

And it was YOU who pulled Reagan into our exchange. Not me.

Btw, Reagan was nowhere near the polarizing figure Bush has been over the last six years. Reagan's two historic landslide election victories and his positive job approval from the American people during most of his Presidency, are consistent with a leader who united America. Unlike Bush, who has divided America.

[Peach]

Ahem. Not to inject facts into your little debate with yourself or anything, but I thought I'd mention that maybe it escaped your notice that Bush won the presidency twice too.

Oh, and by the way, I'm still waiting for you to find where I ever said the president should be above legitimate criticism. Why, if you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd have noted that I have criticized the president on occasion.

But carry on with your useless argument.