Posted on 10/28/2007 8:37:21 AM PDT by Sadecki
Jerry Ford wasn't sure Hillary Clinton could be elected President, but he was absolutely certain which Republican had the strongest shot at stopping her: Rudy Giuliani.
"That would be a great contest between Hillary and Rudy," the 92-year-old former President told a reporter in May 2006.
"I think Giuliani is an electrifying guy," he added. "He's a great speaker. He's had a good record of winning in New York City, and he can be tough."
Ford had gotten to know the former mayor at various political and corporate events over the years - both were members of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, for example - and often spoke admiringly of Giuliani's performance in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
He thought so highly of Giuliani, in fact, that when speculating in 2004 about potential replacements for Vice President Cheney in the unlikely event President Bush decided to make a change, Ford put Giuliani at the top of his list.
Officially, he remained scrupulously neutral in the 2008 GOP primary contest. A few months before his death in December 2006, however, Ford was asked by an old friend to predict who the Republican nominee would be.
He smiled and replied: "Well, if they want to win, Giuliani. He's really good, he's articulate - he's just a leader."
Bullcrap. Take your propaganda elsewhere.
a declaration of the obvious, categorized as an opinion.
But let's not digress from the point.
What's that got to do with anything? Do you view Guliaini as a latino?
I thought the snippets of Ford's views on the Clintons in the same book were very telling. Most of us down south already knew a lot of this back in the 80s
Exactly. Why even hold elections, you might ask ...
Before I do, can you substantiate your implicit propaganda? i.e., who is the winning GOP candidate? Fred Thompson? McCain? Candidate X?
Rudy fails 1 and 3 outright and is very doubtful on 2.
I spent a lot of time thinking “What do I want for the next POTUSA?”.
I made a long list and narrowed it down to just three.
They are:
1) The President must have high moral standards.
2} The President must make America stronger.
3} The President must make Americans more self reliant.
I made a list of all people with their hat in the ring.
Rudy fail 1 and 3 outright and is very doubtful on 2.
They all failed at least one of my three except for our next President “DUNCAN HUNTER”.
nah. why even try to have a reasoned discourse amongst the passionate.
adios.
So. I will never vote for this liberal, statist, elitist RINO. I will go third party first.
Jerry Ford was a SELECTED Preisident before he was elected.
My memory was that he an his RINO buddies Griffith, Michel, et. al, did Reagan dirty in the 1976 Republican Convention floor flight which delayed four years of "morning in America" and gave us four years of a very small man who was probably the most mean-spirted and bitter man to ever occupy the oval office.
I'm sorry. Duncan who?
RINO’s like Ford almost killed the Republican party. I remember under his leadership the Democrats had about 275 seats in congress and a firm control of the senate. Lets not go back there.
there are those of us who just happen to believe that rudy CANNOT beat her.
“Reasoned”? It is to laugh.
Besides Rudy and John McCain (in recent state polls) who else has even been close to Hillary in head to head matchups?
A "declaration" is by definition a "statement of fact." And you didn't say it was just your (foolish) opinion.
But let's not digress from the point.
I'm right on point. Rudy not only cannot defeat Clinton, he would, if nominated, destroy the Republican Party.
Just how do you think a demoralized, divided, destroyed, gutted, GOP is going to beat anybody?
I am not convinced that anyone from New York has a clue about what the nation needs outside of the East Coast.
Only candidates from the center of America have a sense of what life is beyond one urban area.
Go Fred!!
You’re exactly correct about the content of Ford’s remarks.
But who can’t resist a good jab at Ford’s Rino-ness?
That’s just your passion speaking, according to the All-knowing. Didn’t you get the memo?
Wrong. Rino Rudy will split the party leading to a dem win if he is nominated.
SORRY. I had a SENIOR moment. Ford was NEVER elected to office from a national ballot. That was my point but I got lost somehow.
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