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Guest post by Roger Stone
I worked for Governor Ronald Reagan’s 1976 campaign for President when he came agonizingly close to beating Gerald Ford who had never been elected President, for the Republican Presidential Nomination. With the entire Republican establishment supporting former Republican Minority Leader, Gerald R. Ford, who Nixon had appointed Vice President on his way out the door, we were a hardy band of renegades who recognized that Ford could not beat the then surging in the Democratic Primaries, Jimmy Carter. In fact, Reagan and Carter both shared a carefully constructed “Washington outsider” persona. I was honored to work with Senator Paul Laxalt, Lyn Nofziger, John P. Sears, Clif White, Anderson Carter, Frank Whetstone, Lou Kitchen, Kenny Klinge, Paul Russo, Mike Deaver, Peter Hanaford, Dr. Martin Anderson and his wife Annelise Anderson, Jeff Bell,
It was widely assumed that Reagan would be too old to run again in 1980, a view I did not share. The night of the 1976 convention, when narrow-victor Gerald Ford coaxed Reagan to the platform for impromptu remarks, Reagan, working without any script, brought the house down. It was as if you could see a collective light bulb go off over the heads of every Delegate in which they concluded, “good God–we nominated the wrong guy.” Indeed, Ford would rally but he would lose narrowly to Carter after making the fatal mistake of pumping his last resources into suburban Pennsylvania and New York (as his moderate Republican advisors decided, instead of Texas and Missouri where conservative Democrats had figured out that Carter was no conservative).
Ford lost and he was history. But the heart of the Republican Party still belonged to Reagan, who scored approval ratings in the high 80’s—the highest I had seen until President Donald Trump was elected. His approval rating among Republicans today is actually in the ’90s in all reputable polls.
Actually, after his narrow defeat for the 1980 nomination, Reagan cast such a large shadow upon the Republican Party that he would not only be nominated and elected but would move the center of gravity within the GOP to the […]
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