[chajin]

Jimmy Carter was an inept and hapless fool, but he did not hate his country. I celebrated his fall from power, but I will not celebrate his death. That doesn’t mean I will honor him, but I’m not going to piss on his grave, either.

1980 was the first time I ever voted for a Republican, but I voted for Carter in 1976 because he came across as more conservative than Gerald Ford, and I was already making the trek out of the dark side.

Carter has become more leftist in his old age, but he has always had a soul for this country, which makes him a dinosaur Democrat in more ways than one. I will be sorry when he goes, and that goes for Rosalyn.

[ought-six]

Jimmy Carter was the only Democrat I ever supported (but that ended early in his presidency).

I liked Ford, but I thought we needed a break from Nixon, and that meant from his successor, as well. I figured Carter was a Southerner, a former naval officer (nuclear subs), and was not batshit crazy; and he seemed to have at least some values that regular Dems lacked.