California: Gerald Ford

[img_assist|nid=2424|title=John McCain|desc=Getty Images Photo |link=none|align=center|width=420|height=280]The political director for President Gerald Ford's 1976 re-election campaign said you can't draw parallels between a tactic Ford used in that race and Republican presidential nominee John McCain's announcement Wednesday that he would suspend his campaign to work on the country's economic crisis.