Reply #5: I have to agree.

[RaleighNCDUer]

With that, the coup pulled victory from the jaws of defeat. Carter would have gained a 2nd term because the plotters would not have been in a position to fix the hostage crisis to Reagan's benefit, after which Reagan would not have been able to successfully run in '84. The entire dynamic of the last 30 years would have been different.

That's why, when Ford kicked and even here people were calling him the 'last good republican', I was furious at his near-reagan level of deification.

He was a repub apparatichik who had covered for republican crimes for his entire career. His efforts for the coup were essential for its success.