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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (756513)	12/28/2006 3:58:57 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ford lost to Carter for a several reasons, I think... 1. The pardon cost him some votes. 2. After watergate, the "time for a change" mentality was in full effect. Carter certainly benefittedf from being an outsider that year. 3. Ford was very unfairly treated by the press as being clumsy, which didn't help his image. The Saturday Night Live sketches having him crash into everything were something most Americans had not seen before - broad, continuing satire about a President (SNL began in 1975) on national T.V. I don't count Laugh-In as satire. Comments about Ford "wearing his helmet too long" or playing without a helmet didn't help. He was a good man. I had a chance to eat dinner with him (and about fifty others) a few years ago at a conference. He was a very clever conversionalist and made you feel he was a "nice guy".