I am no fan of Carter. I was at our Embassy in Tehran the first time we were overrun on February 14, 1979. Carter gave us Khomeini and militant Islamic fundamentalism.
Carter was a blessing because he set the table for 8 years of Reagan. Without Carter's four years in office, Reagan would have a more difficult time winning in 1976.
Maybe so, maybe not. You do agree, don’t you, that without the pardon of Nixon hung around his neck like a millstone, Reagan would have had a much better chance at beating Carter than Ford? Even so, Ford made it very close. Without Carter, Iranian sponsored terror may never have happened. Hindsight is always 20/20, but to suggest that Cruz is somehow behaving differently than Reagan in ‘76 is a pretty tough argument to make given what we know to be true during that time.