Posted on 02/07/2006 3:37:20 PM PST by new yorker 77
Tue Feb 7, 1:35 AM ET Democrat Jack Carter, 58, the son of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, smiles at an event in Carson City, Nevada February 6, 2006, where he formally announced a run for the U.S. Senate in his first bid for elected office. (Adam Tanner/Reuters)
CARSON CITY, Nevada (Reuters) - Democrat Jack Carter, 58, the son of former President Jimmy Carter formally announced a run for the U.S. Senate on Monday in his first bid for elected office.
With his parents sharing a stage in the Nevada capital, Carter invoked many of the same themes his father used to rise from relative obscurity to win the Democratic nomination in 1976 and go on to become president.
"All we need is a return to our core American values and new leadership," Carter said as his father smiled broadly and applauded with a receptive crowd of several hundred people. He criticized the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq as well as its domestic spying and drug prescription programs.
One of four children, Democrat Jack Carter was active in his father's 1976 campaign for president but has devoted his professional life to business. He lived in Bermuda as an investor before moving to Nevada three years ago.
Carter is seeking to unseat Nevada's junior Sen. John Ensign, a Republican who grew up in the state, but polls suggest newcomer Carter faces an uphill battle.
"He's far ahead now of what I was when I started running for president," the elder Carter told journalists.
Warmly received, the former president signed autographs for the crowd and told them to back his son. "I've known Jack ever since he was born and he doesn't need a lot of advice about politics: he helped me get elected president," he said.
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"Life aint nothing but a funny funny riddle, Jack Carter is a clown."
He might do OK. He's got the media's attention, and just like Jim Gibson (Republican Jim Gibbons opponent for you non-Nevadans), he's an inexperienced novelty candidate. But I think he'll fail, like other carpetbagger, novelty candidates we've had (who was that guy that ran for governor, the producer of "Trading Places"....?).
You could look it up: Jack Carter did "outreach" to the gay community and "disappeared" one night with his new friends. I remember reading the story.
He was arrested for marijuana possession, wasn't he?
Hey, Jimmy Carter was born and raised in Georgia, and the majority of Georgians wish he wasn't.
You could look it up: Jack Carter did "outreach" to the gay community and "disappeared" one night with his new friends. I remember reading the story.
He was arrested for marijuana possession, wasn't he? Yes, he was busted while in the Navy and discharged.
We call it a certain kind of grin!
I want to contribute to his opponent. I want him stomped. Defeated. Crushed. Finished, Humiliated. And his Daddy too.
Of course, all those libs who were worked up over Bush's National Guard service will conveniently avoid mentioning that Carter was thrown out of the Navy in 1970 for using pot and LSD.
Wonder if he'll emulate Kerry with an
"I could have served in Viet Nam."
A chip off the old blockhead.
...who used to hangout with Abbie Hoffman (RIP), before his demise.
What are Peanut II's chances???
George Clooney was of no help to his father, let's make sure that the peanut brain doesn't help his son get elected.
All this presents a bit of a challenge to our rhetorical skills: What really ~is~ the diminutive form of the word "peanut?"
I used to eat quite a few peanuts before they had been graded and sorted. There were more than a few stunted little shells with only one pea. We didn't know, then, to call these "Carters."
I hope Jimmy campaigns for him day in and day out until election moment....
Ah lock the way ya tock....
Just give him some LSD - it will bring flashbacks to his happy Navy days, until he got caught with the joy juice and thrown out.
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