[Gondring]

Former President Ford deserves to be treated just like any other president, even if he was simply in the right place at the right time. What does not being elected have to do with anything?

And he was appointed to positions by people who were rightfully elected. To say that their appointments are not valid is like saying laws are not valid because we don't have referenda on them all.

We're in a @#$&* democratic republic, much as that pains the liberals to admit.

But it really is amazing how Democrats who score lower on standardized exams are viewed as smarter than their GOP opponents, or how Algore can flunk out of theology school but be called intellectually superior to W, who has an Ivy League graduate degree.

[Coldwater Creek]

Well said!!

[JayNorth]

or how Algore can flunk out of theology school but be called intellectually superior to W, who has an Ivy League graduate degree.

They've done that to every Republican presidential/vice-presidential candidate since I started following politics in the late '60s. Ford the dunce, Reagan the dunce, GHWB the dunce, Quayle the dunce, GWB the dunce, etc. Then there's the "evil, heartless, mean spirited" label: Nixon the meanie, Reagan the heartless, Dole the meanie, Cheney the evil, etc. Let's not forget the "racist" label, as well. The DNC playbook is about two pages long, double-spaced with wide margins. And with a complicit LSM, their BS seems to work every time.