On NBC's "Daily Nightly" blog, anchor Brian Williams explained that he was a big fan of Jerry Ford, and has a pile of handwritten letters from Ford in his later years. You can read between the lines the respect and nostalgia liberals have for a moderate Republican in a much more liberal era:
The truth is Jerry Ford was a nice man. He was decent, courageous, honest...and a loving and faithful partner to his wife, a wonderful and trail-blazing woman. By today's political standards he just might be a liberal. By today's standards he is an anachronism of a kind of cooperative, deal-making and dare I say much more bipartisan brand of politics.
The liberal encomiums for a more bipartisan time do seem to omit that the Democrats held the House by a majority of about 145 after the post-Watergate sweep in 1974, so bipartisanship was pretty much mandatory, even if it was a natural fit for Ford.
One of the more interesting Ford stories on Thursday came from Washington Post reporter Jeffrey Birnbaum in the Business section, on Ford's positive economic legacy, not so celebrated at the time. But I very much remember Ford going around on the campaign trail for Reagan in 1980 saying forcefully, "We handed Jimmy Carter the economy on a silver platter....and he blew it!"
And how.
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Who gives a rats rear what Wi
December 28, 2006 - 20:15 ET by bigtimerWho gives a rats rear what Williams has to opine...he is an elite leftist empty-headed empty suit...just love how the left are all of the sudden Ford men.
Hypocrites all.
Ford was a RINO...simple as that.
May God rest his soul.
"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan
Rino Rino Rino. The people
December 29, 2006 - 04:40 ET by troublemakerRino Rino Rino. The people who embody conservatism the most are Rumsfeld and Cheney.
"The truth is Jerry Ford
December 29, 2006 - 00:38 ET by Indiana Joe"The truth is Jerry Ford was a nice man. He was decent, courageous, honest...and a loving and faithful partner to his wife, a wonderful and trail-blazing woman. By today's political standards he just might be a liberal."
What a bunch of arrogant tripe! So, anyone who is "a nice man... decent, courageous, honest...and a loving and faithful partner to his wife..." is, by definition, a LIBERAL??? Doesn't describe most liberals I'VE heard of... or MET, for that matter.
My God, just how egotistical ARE these people?
Following Williams's logic, l
December 29, 2006 - 07:42 ET by Dave659Following Williams's logic, liberals should acknowledge that by today's standards JFK "just might be" a conservative, with his strong anti-communism and belief in free enterprise, but instead they venerate him as if he was the founder of modern liberalism.
The truth is Jerry Ford was
December 29, 2006 - 07:58 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsThe truth is Jerry Ford was a nice man. He was decent, courageous,
honest...and a loving and faithful partner to his wife, a wonderful and
trail-blazing woman. By today's political standards he just might be a
liberal.
This certainly doesn't describe either Clinton, so I guess neither is a liberal.
DSG
That was just an unbelievably
December 29, 2006 - 08:57 ET by Hero SquadThat was just an unbelievably insulting thing for Williams to say. He should be called to the carpet on this one.
Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath.
Oh gosh Brian, please, don'
December 29, 2006 - 09:34 ET by benrandOh gosh Brian, please, don't hold back your love, and don't dare say it, please just let it out.
Didn't that featherbrain work for Carter...
What would Bubba be Brian?
Y D Ford worship??
December 29, 2006 - 10:00 ET by reelman46The libmedia want to eclipse Reagan's funeral support (for a real conservative who made a difference)
Ford was not a conservative,
he was dominated much of the time by the lib congress, he ushered in the malaise of Carter...
he did away with some laws that were helpful in foreign policy and gave us a lib dufus on the Supreme Court for decades...
he played college football, so what?
He was the mush-mouth country club get-a-long with the secular socialists "moderate" we would call a RINO today.
The libs had what they wanted in Ford so "the praise" is the framework for telling all of us "this is what a Repub should be".
Then Ford loses to the worst president in many decades, the peanutman who
really hammered down this country here and abroad... we feel that today!
Ford lost, in part, because the conservatives saw no strong principles or record and stayed home in disgust.
Then we got Bush then Perot (Perot he had all the lib TV time and
praise he wanted because they knew he would take votes from Bush) gave
us the Clintons.
-- Will they televise and show repeatedly
the hanging of Sand Hitler??? Bet the libs run from that (not their
kind of reality, only US soldiers being shot)
-- Will they televise and s
December 29, 2006 - 10:11 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls-- Will they televise and show repeatedly the hanging of Sand Hitler??? Bet the libs run from that (not their kind of reality, only US soldiers being shot)
You got that right, we will not see the 'inflammatory' hanging of the tyrant Hussein, but US soldiers getting shot warrants repeated airings.
DSG
Funny Williams cites all thos
December 29, 2006 - 10:10 ET by Chris NormanFunny, Williams cites all those wonderful attributes of Ford's and suggests that Ford may be a Liberal today - when Liberals today have lurched way to the fringe Left and have become some of the most vicious and antagonistic people imaginable.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
The musical rug under each ni
December 29, 2006 - 12:28 ET by donsalesThe musical rug under each night's opening credits on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams should be:
I could while away the hours,
Conferrin' with the flowers,
Consultin' with the rain,
And my head, I'd be scratchin',
While my thoughts were busy hatchin',
If I only had a brain
Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....
don,LOL (and good memories),
December 29, 2006 - 12:36 ET by Chris Normandon,
LOL (and good memories), and I wish the situation would arise where we could miss him "most of all"...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
smart people
December 29, 2006 - 17:19 ET by ucLiberals in todays world just want to be him regardless of the cost to their identity. He knew how to win and get us out of a war. Dems have no similar chance today for such greatness as still their attempts to fathom foreign policy issues and related global balance still seem a really distant concept or hope far from reallity.