Reply #7: Ford is still paying a price for healing

[illinoisprogressive]

I agree with you. I don't think bashing him is right. He did what he thought was best to try to heal the country. The terrible toll of Watergate was dragging us down and Ford felt the country needed to move on and begin healing. It was a very traumatic thing.
I don't think bashing a basically decent guy is doing anyone any good.
We need more Fords and less Bush now. This nastiness is the fall out of the gop agenda and Bush's. It's gotten so we are so angry we will bash a decent guy who did what he thought was the best simply because he was a republican.
In the 70s the dems and repubs were not enemies. They were friends. They had different ideas but, didnot hate because of it.
They were best friends. Just as Carter was Ford's best friend.
Ford did not make what Cheney and Rummy became. It was in thier character before and came out of Nixon. They used Ford and duped him. They hated him for trying to heal the country.