Reply #23: I'm Cautiously Optimistic

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Don't forget if not for 30,000 votes in Hawaii and Ohio Gerald Ford would have beat Jimmy Carter in 1976 and this was in the aftermath of Watergate and Carter was running against Richard Nixon's handpicked successor...


I might get pilloried for saying this but Gerald Ford was the last decent Republican...He was pro choice, pro ERA, and pro affirmative action... He shied away from racial politics and even filed an amicus brief as an ex president in favor of his alma mata ,the University of Michigan's affirmative action program , when it was challenged in the Supreme Court...

He had his partisan momemnts when he tried to impeach William O Douglas but he was a decent guy...