To: 2ndDivisionVet
If I knew nothing else about Rudy, this story would be enough to convince me that he is the last person Republicans should nominate. Has there ever been a major American politician with worse political judgment than Gerald Ford?
Ford won the nomination in 1976 telling Republicans that Ronald Reagan was too extreme. He said then that he was the only hope for keeping the White House in GOP hands.
His strategy failed then and it would fail now.
7 posted on
10/28/2007 8:43:27 AM PDT by
fluffdaddy
(we don't need no stinking taglines)
To: fluffdaddy
This guy annoyed me when he was alive, and I still can’t get any peace from him after he’s gone.
12 posted on
10/28/2007 8:46:39 AM PDT by
jpl
(Dear Al Gore: it's 3:00 A.M., do you know where your drug addicted son is?)
To: fluffdaddy
His strategy failed then and it would fail now. True enough -- he and Bob Michel, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker of Tennessee embodied the Republicanism of that day: Happy to place second.
That all said, Gerry Ford on the worst day of his life displayed decency and character that Bill Clinton could never scratch with a rasp-cut file.
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