President Ford’s passing and Democrat drive-bys

Last night, watching the various news programs, I noticed that Democrats were taking the opportunity at one last swat at President Nixon while eulogizing President Ford. It seems every compliment of the 38th President was accompanied by criticism of the 37th.

Then this morning, I find this at Captain’s Quarters and a link to the WaPo Woodward interview from more than two years ago;

“I don’t think I would have gone to war,” [Ford] said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford’s own administration.

Aside from the fact that the Washington Post printing this before President Ford’s body is cold is the journalistic equivalent of ambulance chasing, I’m pretty sure Mr. Ford wouldn’t have gone to war either.

Anyone who remembers the Reagan campaign of 1980 remembers that Republicans called themselves neoconservatives back then (before the term was hijacked by the Left six years ago to mean something entirely different) because the Reagan Revolution was about returning to the values of the Party. The previous three Republican Presidents had acted more like Democrats than Republicans.

President Eisenhower continued massive spending policies of the prior twenty gluttonous Democrat years, Nixon had his idiot “wage and price freezes” and Ford had his “Whip Inflation Now” campaign of beating inflation by wearing shiny buttons (see Powerline). Nixon and Ford bought into the detente lie as foreign policy. So the 1980 campaign was about getting back to the basics of being Conservative (which attracted me from the Conservative Party of New York State).

Carter had played like a Conservative in the 1976 campaign and that’s why President Ford lost. Carter promised to keep the Panama Canal and to stop Soviet expansion. He promised to slash taxes and cut government - of course, he lied on all counts. We all remember his Playboy interview where he touted his religion while admitting he’d “lusted in his heart” for women other than his wife – playing to both sides.

So I’m pretty sure President Ford wouldn’t have gone to war in Iraq, either. But that’s not a plus. I’m pretty sure that’s a lot easier to sit on the sidelines and criticize the players than it is to play the game. 

And here’s another Democrat drive-by from the Queen of drive-bys, Cindy Sheehan, brought to you by Flopping Aces. Apparently, she claims that if Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon, our current President wouldn’t have attacked Saddam Hussein. Funny how everything is about her, huh?

Category: Politics