Ford led with humor, moderation (HELEN THOMAS ALERT!!!)

The Boston Channel.com ^ | January 3, 2007 | The legendary HELEN THOMAS!!!

[seanmerc]

Latest column from the perennial FR favorite, the sassy and inimitable doyenne of the White House press corps, the ever-objective MS. HELEN THOMAS!!!

[seanmerc]

Almost forgot--IBTHTP!!!

[Rummyfan]

If Helen Thomas thinks this administration is too 'conservative' and 'neocon', one more to my taste wold send her screaming round the bend!

[SF Republican]

Don't often agree with Helen but I see nothing in this article I disagree with.

[GQuagmire]

In terms of friendly relations with the media, Ford ranked high............


Who cares?

[RightResponse]

As for politics, Republicans seeking the presidency in 2008 would do well to tear a page out of Ford's playbook: Move to the middle and stay away from the far right.

Think this toad-like wart bomb would EVER say something like this to Pelosi, or Reid, or any Dumbocrat presidential candidate?

[Gritty]

[Paradox]

I wonder what she thought and wrote about Ford at the time he was in office...

[techcor]

In terms of friendly relations with the media, Ford ranked high..

They portrayed him as a dumb jock stumble bum. A guy that had played too much football without a helmet. For the media and Republicans that is "friendly" relations. If they considered him a threat (i.e. someone who might be tough to beat by a Dem), they would have been as viscious as they were with Reagan.

[Reagan Man]

More praise from the leftwing for the Rockefeller Republican, Gerald Ford. Why am I not surprised. Ford was nothing more then a caretaker President at best. He should have stepped aside and allowed Reagan to take on the peanut farmer. America would have been spared four years of the incompetent Jimmah Cahter.

[My2Cents]

The only Republicans the leftist media like are the ineffective ones, doomed to fail in their election bids.

[ModelBreaker]

I guess the conclusion from this article, and from the leftist adoption of Ronald Reagan after his death, is that the only good Republican is a dead Republican.

[LiveFree99]

I am certain that she raked Ford over the coals many times for pardoning Nixon.

[OpusatFR]

Sorry, Helen. I remember how the media viewed and treated Ford while in office. All of you pilloried him and wrote about this bumbling second-rate halfwit football player as though he'd sprouted from a cornfield just that day in 1972.

~And the Ford kids came in for a drubbing, too, especially Susan if I remember the name correctly.

[garv]

Thank you. Out of respect for the dead I conspicuously avoided the recent Ford threads, but if I read one more reference to this "great man" I thought I would gag.

I expect to read sudden adulation for Ford in the MSM, especially after his posthumous ripping of actual conservatives and the Bush administration, but what was really disheartening was to read the seemingly endless adulation on this board. Evidently "Republican" has superseded conservative as the goal.

[GQuagmire]

Still no pics?(Thank God.)

[dfwgator]

In terms of friendly relations with the media, Ford ranked high............ Who cares?

And the media went 90% for Carter in the 76 election.

[SuziQ]

I wonder what she thought and wrote about Ford at the time he was in office...

That was my first thought; especially when he was running against Carter in 1976.

[seanmerc]

OK, since you insist...

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>Evidently "Republican" has superseded conservative as the goal.

As you well know, a growing trend in recent years. ;^)