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just a week or so before the republican convention in the summer of 1980 Jerry Ford held a press conference and he told the world that the Republicans had to find someone different besides reagan because reagan was unfit. This was AFTER the republican voters had already spoken. Reagan was pressured to bring ford into the admin because reagan was perceived by the republican leaders as being unfit. Reagan was very polite to his destractors, but he decided that the co-president idea being foisted upon him was a bad idea.

The facts are that the country club republicans, like bush and like the others that now run the party, simply don't like conservatives and they didn't like reagan until after it was clear that the public supported him strongly. And facts are facts friend!

In my state, Arizona, the liberal republicans have been in charge for about 6 years now. They decided to subsidize the purchase of new cars. If you would merely purchase an inexpensive pollution control device, then they would have the taxpayers pay for 80-90% of the car for you. As you can imagine the car dealerships were no longer 'selling' cars. They were merely helping people fill out the paperwork because the deal really was just that good. One fellow told his employer in california about it, his employer purchased 165 pickup trucks and got them paid for by the arizona taxpayers. The whole thing cost the Arizona taxpayers perhaps 1 billion dollars by the time its' done. The republicans also saw fit to make special grants to their friends and say that certain industries didn't have to pay taxes. They had 255 different categories of businesses that didn't have to pay taxes. Because of this republican leadership today they have let prisoners go from their sentetnces early because the state prisons had their budget cut and had to let prison guards go. The public schools here in this state had their budget cut, not a slow-down in growth, an actual cut. The charter schools were private schools that the parents were able to select and the government paid most of the bill. But that is being sacrificed now too because of money problems. So, I am a conservative and I am voting democrat because in all of these in-state races the democrats are far superior to the republicans. The republicans did this huge damage to our state. They've not apologized. The governor who screwed up so bad had not stepped down. The republicans are too arrogant and need to be removed.

My republican congressman in washington is likewise a liar and a cheat. He campaigned on a platform of smaller government, typical republican lies they tell to get elected. He's been sitting for years on the House Ways & Means committee, any spending bill that comes through he blesses it like a cheerleader and the result is we have faster growth in guvment spending under the republican leadership in congress than we ever had under the dems.

So, a vote for the republicans is a vote for slavery. We must make the 2 parties compete to do what we want or else we will merely be slaves. Both parties are united today against us, only if we systematically vote against 70% of incumbents can we get them to do our bidding.

The facts are that the country club republicans

Spoken like a true Marxist. Nothing like a bit of class envy to add to a conservative forum.

>>>just a week or so before the republican convention in the summer of 1980 Jerry Ford held a press conference and he told the world that the Republicans had to find someone different besides reagan because reagan was unfit.

You're nuts!

I was around back then in the middle of the political battle. What you say happened, never took place. That's not to say that certain factions with the Republican Party, didn't pressure Reagan to pick Ford. But the fact is, Reagan didn't need Bush or Ford to beat Carter. Reagan won it all on his own.