it takes a man to BE a man...
Posted on 10/05/2014 2:41:32 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Former Democrat president Jimmy Carter was crushed by conservative Ronald Reagan in 1980, after serving one disastrous term, losing the electoral vote 489-49.
It was an embarrassing time to be a Democrat, as it is today after an even more calamitous time under current Democrat President Barack Obama.
Carter was thoroughly annihilated by Reagan, who the political establishment said was too conservative to be elected president, only winning six states and the District of Columbia (two of the states were his own state of Georgia, and his VP choice Walter Mondale’s home state of Minnesota).
Carter told CNBC Meets in an interview released on Wednesday, that he could have defeated Ronald Reagan if he had been more “manly” during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Carter told CNBC’s Tania Bryer:
Yes. Um, well I could’ve been re-elected if I’d taken military action against Iran, shown that I was strong and resolute and, um, manly and so forth. But, er, I think if I, I could have wiped Iran off the map with the weapons that we had, but in the process a lot of innocent people would have been killed, probably including the hostages and so I stood up against all that, er, all that advice, and then eventually my prayers were answered and every hostage came home safe and free. And so I think I made the right decision in retrospect, but it was not easy at the time (laughs).” The Iranian Hostage Crisis, in which more than 60 Americans were taken hostage when Islamic terrorists overtook the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, lasted 444 days.
The American hostages were released literally minutes after Ronald Reagan took his oath of office
Obama promised us unicorns and all we got was this pale horse.
That’s pretty effeminate. It appears that he can’t even see manliness as far as a man like Duncan Hunter.
He couldn't blame himself for his failures, so he had to blame the American people. Just like somebody else we know.
Carter is still delusional I see.
Obama the I.
Nicely explained
it takes a man to BE a man...
Then there was never any threat of you being elected. Never thought there could be a bigger wimp than he was as president. Until we got this one.
Pigs could fly if they only had wings or a ticket on Hog Air.
You're correct, but in my defense, I've never worried about being "manly" either as a boy or as gentleman. My parents raised me as a gentleman. In defense, I don't remember ever using the word "manly."
Top of the charts in the Cahrtuh years.
Jimmah shoulda used Old Spice deodorant for that more manly smell.
That headline just made me spit water on my keyboard!
It was Carter who used it.
And he was mocking Reagan voters—i.e., asserting that they voted for Reagan because they perceived him as more of a cowboy.
A more appropriate word would be “masculine.”
Or perhaps, “non-repulsive,” “non-treasonous,” “non-idiotic,” “non-lying-crypto-Marxist,” or “non-anti-Jewish,” or “non-pro-abortion.”
Shut up, you miserable failure.
I dread this chump’s eventual death, MSNBC will start laying on the praise and beginning the public campaign to lionize this piece of garbage.
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