McCain won’t win. A nomination for him will get us a Dem president.
“Ford continually acted out of spite and contempt for the Republican base? I must have missed that.”
Ford, though from Michigan, was essentially part of the old patrician northeastern establishment wing of the GOP, the old upper-crusters. Like other patricians, he viewed the surging conservative movement led by Reagan with suspicion and fear. What we saw as a refreshing and neccessary revolution in politics, Ford and the old guard saw as a dirty mob, peasants with pitchforks tearing down the master’s gates.
When Reagan was elected, Ford, Kissenger...that whole crowd was not amused. And as much as I hate to say it, McCain and his bunch have that Ford-Dole feel to them.