OMG! You can't be serious. The outcome of 1976 GOP primary election races, was the closest primary season in American history. Ford won 15 state primaries and Reagan won 12. The nomination was settled at the 1976 Republican Convention.
>>>>In any event the great communicator got his rear end handed to him on a silver platter.
BULLoney! Ronald Reagan lost the nomination to Pres Ford by a small margin of convention voters. Reagan fell short by only 60 votes. The winner needed 1130, Ford got 1187 to 1070 for Reagan. Truth be told, many of the GOP delegates who voted for Ford knew they had voted for the wrong man. As POTUS, Ford was an utter failure. In many ways and on many issues, Ford was no better then Jimmah Carter. Btw, Ford was the last pro-choice nominee of the GOP.
>>>>When Ford took office the inflation rate was 14 plus percent. Ford managed to cut that to about 7.9 percent during his short term in office.
Nonsense! Under Nixon, inflation was at 6.16% for 1973. In 1974 under Ford, inflation shot up to 11.03%, before coming to 9.2% in 1975 and 5.75% in 1976. In 1977 inflation skyrocketed under Carter.
>>>>The unemployment rate was nearly 10 percent and Ford managed to cut that to a little under 7 percent during his short term in office.
More nonsense! When Ford took office monthly unemployment was at 5.5%. It shot up to 9.0% by May 1975. Ending at 7.8% by the end of Ford's term in office.
LBJ retired in disgrace. Nixon resigned in disgrace. Ford was defeated by a disgrace named Jimmah Carter. A look at the historic record shows by any reasonable evaluation, that Ford`s Presidency was a disgrace.
You are absolutely correct in the thrashing you have delivered the previous poster. Another thing, Ford nominated a complete disaster called John Paul Stevens.