Where is Gerald Ford?

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

I didn't see him at the R convention, and he's not campaigning with *. He was the last halfway reasonable Republican president, but we haven't heard boo from him. Is he ashamed of the current regime?

[Beaverhausen]

1. there was an interview with him this morning on NPR

http://www.npr.org/

[shaolinmonkey]

2. He's trying to sit in the corner of a circular room.

[havocmom]

3. drooling? (n/t)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. That's Cold...

He's pro choice...


pro ERA


pro affirmative action ; even wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court for his alma matta, Univeristy of Michigan...


I used to dislike Gerald Ford because he has a R before his name but I was wrong...

[shaolinmonkey]

5. If he's all those things, he should switch parties.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. He's 90 Years Old...

I don't think he's going to change...


but on the evil board he's referred to as a RINO....

[havocmom]

14. AND he pardoned some bad crooks

AND there was that Warren Report thing...

[4_Legs_Good]

20. And he appointed Stevens!

[noonwitch]

6. He is 90 years young

But I don't think he likes the religious right that much. He's made comments in the past about them taking over the party. It's funny-I'm from his hometown, Grand Rapids, which was a very conservative place, for the most part. He was always pretty moderate. I don't think he ever had to take a stand on some issues, like abortion, which keeps him in good graces with both conservatives and liberals. I know this much-he would never call a liberal a communist. He's friends with Jimmy Carter.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I Liked Betty Ford...

She wasn't the typical Republican Stepford Wife...


I forgot where I read it but someone asked her often she and her husband had sex...

She said as "often as possible"...

I also liked Jack Ford...

He invited people like George Harrison and Muhammad Ali to the White House...

[Norbert]

12. I also like Betty Ford.

She turned a negative in her personal demons to a positive in the Betty Ford Clinic. It certainly helped many prople. I like her personally.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

15. I'm from Grand Rapids too. Moved as soon as I could get outta there.

It's a beautiful city but too bad it's filled with Repubs.

[wicket]

8. He was on NPR this morning - VERY good interview

[newscaster]

11. Gerald Ford is an old style republican

who still has concern for the poor, the sick and the uneducated. He still cares about people and as far as I can tell, has never been beholden to industry or as Eisenhower put it, the Military-Industrial complex.
He may have been slightly less than sure footed but if he had had a crack at a full term in office, I am fairly sure he would have acquitted himself admirably. We was a Republican I would have had no problem voting fore. The rest of them.....arghhhhhhh!

:boring:

[cyr330]

10. Maybe so

But regardless of what his own beliefs are, I know he'll still vote for the Bush* regime. The same thing can be said about Schwarzenegger; people point to him as the "moderate" in the Republican Party, but he's their bitch whore who campaigns for them.

[Bryan]

13. Not only that

...but Ford was not exactly a visionary statesman who commanded the respect of the entire party. To the Republican leadership of the time, he was a warm body who was sufficiently far out of Nixon's loop as to be publically acceptable (for his part, Ford was fairly modest and, given his druthers, probably wouldn't have wanted to go higher than Speaker of the House). Even if he were to break publically with the scumfucks, they wouldn't exactly be demoralized or worried about him peeling off part of the base.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

16. He was the only Repub. they could find who was decent and honest.

n/t

[liberal N proud]

17. I hope he stays alive until after the election

Seriously, if he died now, we would have to go through another Reagan like funeral, week long national mourning and parades with every repub making a showing and the polls would swing in the favor of bush becuase of the great national coming together and he could console everyone and make life all good.

Not trying to be morbid but just a worry.

[yardwork]

18. Frankly, Gerald Ford seems healthier than W

I don't wish death on either one of them. Just pointing out that W looks like death warmed over lately.

[Contrary1]

19. Who? n/t