Also, kindly look into “Rummy’s” earlier career and recall that he, Cheney and Bush 41 were all FORD guys.

Life is never as simple as you’d like to believe, is it?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20061228/co_po/expresidentfordreachedouttogays

For once, PlanetOut manages to keep their “gay left” viewpoint to a minimum and just give some facts about Ford and gays. I found the bits about Sipple (man who saved Ford’s life) interesting.

If Clinton had honored Nixon’s precedent and resigned, not only would Democrat sneering about Nixon make more sense today, but also Gore would have run in 2000 as a sitting President. That could have put Gore in campaign driver’s seat and given him the edge he lacked.

Just goes to show: Doing the right thing can have a lot of good consequences for your side, if you dare to do it. And not doing the right thing, a lot of bad consequences.

But now I’m way off-topic. Apologies.

…if we’re a nation of laws, then Nixon should have been judged by those laws instead of getting a free pass)

And yet, when a Democrat President committed an actual, legal crime (courtroom perjury), giving Democrats a chance to show their commitment to judging people under law, they were nowhere to be found.

In fact, they (or I should say ‘we’, since I was one at the time) were outraged that anyone would expect it.

Leaving aside the fact that Nixon never got a free pass; he was compelled to RESIGN as Clinton equally should have done (but, with typical Leftie “entitlement” to do as he pleased, did not).

Most of us who disagree with Mr. Ford politically have formulated our statements as some variation on “While we respect President Ford for the way he conducted himself both in and out of office, we don’t want to whitewash the fact that his presidency was mediocre and failed to address the serious problems of his times.”

On the left, however, the concept of respecting those with whom you disagree is quite alien. The left learned some time ago it could not defeat the right intellectually, and the failures of leftism to produce economic prosperity or protect human rights in the real world are plain for all to see. All that’s left for the left is to vilify the right, a vilification which has of late reached absurd depths of dementia, with some on the left claiming that Republicans are out to exterminate them.

In such an atmosphere, it is quite impossible for a dim leftist drone to imagine that it is possible to disagree with someone and not hate them, much less respect them. Hence, the confusion of many of the drones on this board.

Ford truly was a genial, intelligent man, but he didn’t have a shot at getting elected on his, with or without pardoning Nixon (the single biggest mistake of his presidency; if we’re a nation of laws, then Nixon should have been judged by those laws instead of getting a free pass)

23: Are you advocating the killing of 2 former US presidents because they don’t agree with your ideals? that’s certainly classy and patriotic.

Indeed.

However, I am willing to make this agreement. On the day the mainstream media ceases to act as Jimmy Carter’s uncritical PR firm and cheerleading squad, and the day the mainstream media ceases to behave toward the Clintons like schoolgirls with crushes, on that day I will forswear never to say another unkind word about the Clintons or the Carters.

Then it seems foolish and strange for you to have made this post.

Moreover, I notice that you never actually said that what the DU’ers were saying was wrong; you just tried to cast doubt on whether or not it was actually Democrats saying it (which, given the fact that DU tracks posts and that several of the commentors saying these things have literally hundreds of posts to their name, seems a bit silly).

And now to Chase:

GPW, monty and LagunaDave’s recollections of Ford were fascinating, but all the partisan snipping here is inappropriate.

If it’s “partisan sniping” and dishonoring the memory of the deceased that bothers you, Chase, your crusade to eliminate it would be much better spent persuading those of your own ideology.