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Politics : John McCain for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (319)	2/20/2000 11:48:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

You are wrong. Ford was never ready for prime time, never considered Presidential material. Democrats were cheered when Nixon chose that mashed potato sandwich. Ford should have conceded gracefully, the primary voters chose Reagan but the cronies controlled enough delegates to give Ford a nomination he didn't deserve. The convention, - the party, the nation - knew the inferior man had been nominated and it showed. Reagan, the true outsider and a great leader with none of Ford's baggage, would have mopped the floor with Carter. Indeed, exit polls taken on election day 1976 showed Reagan over Carter. In retrospect, it was better that Ford lost, because as he had shown, he had no ability to govern, lead or execute. I believe it was President Johnson who remarked that Jerry was so stupid he couldn't fart and walk at the same time (actually he was more scatological) and Feckless Ford did everything to prove that Johnson was right. But let's face it, after the nomination was effectively stolen from the people and Reagan, Ford's loss in the general election was the country's gain. Had Ford won there would have been no Reagan Revolution, no showdown with totalitarianism, no 17 year Reagan Boom and very likely no Reagan Peace Dividend and no US preeminence for Clinton to squander. Reagan set out trying to change a nation and wound up changing the World.