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Jimmy Carter's son running for Senate (The Other Peanut)(US Senate race Nevada)
Reuters via The Washington Post ^ | February 7, 2006 | Adam Tanner

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; jackcarter; johnensign
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
"sun's coming up I got cakes on the griddle..."

"Life aint nothing but a funny funny riddle, Jack Carter is a clown."


41 posted on 02/07/2006 4:18:14 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bpjam
Ensign is going to crush this bozo just like he crushed the ambulance chaser they put up 6 years ago.

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"....?).

42 posted on 02/07/2006 4:18:18 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: popdonnelly

43 posted on 02/07/2006 4:20:17 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: new yorker 77

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?


44 posted on 02/07/2006 4:29:58 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: bpjam

Hey, Jimmy Carter was born and raised in Georgia, and the majority of Georgians wish he wasn't.


45 posted on 02/07/2006 4:31:11 PM PST by mwfsu84
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To: new yorker 77

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.


46 posted on 02/07/2006 4:31:40 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: frankjr
What's up with that face of his?

We call it a certain kind of grin!

47 posted on 02/07/2006 4:32:07 PM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (expell the fat arrogant carcasses of Congress)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

I want to contribute to his opponent. I want him stomped. Defeated. Crushed. Finished, Humiliated. And his Daddy too.


48 posted on 02/07/2006 4:37:29 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: new yorker 77

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.


49 posted on 02/07/2006 4:38:26 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Lizarde
I only remember his daughter Amy a bookish liberal sort or a hippy...

...who used to hangout with Abbie Hoffman (RIP), before his demise.

50 posted on 02/07/2006 4:44:02 PM PST by LK44-40
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To: new yorker 77

What are Peanut II's chances???


51 posted on 02/07/2006 4:44:24 PM PST by Savage Beast ("Democrats are rumbling toward the November elections as the American Al Qaeda Party." ~jmaroneps37)
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To: new yorker 77

George Clooney was of no help to his father, let's make sure that the peanut brain doesn't help his son get elected.


52 posted on 02/07/2006 4:46:06 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: OldFriend
Peanut II...peanut brain

All this presents a bit of a challenge to our rhetorical skills: What really ~is~ the diminutive form of the word "peanut?"

53 posted on 02/07/2006 4:52:36 PM PST by LK44-40
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To: LK44-40

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."


54 posted on 02/07/2006 4:55:40 PM PST by LK44-40
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To: new yorker 77

I hope Jimmy campaigns for him day in and day out until election moment....


55 posted on 02/07/2006 5:50:29 PM PST by b4its2late (Terrorists will either succeed in changing our way of life, or we will change theirs. - Rummy)
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To: Lizarde
I didn't know he had a son either. Kept a low profile during daddy's reign.
56 posted on 02/07/2006 5:52:55 PM PST by Churchillspirit (Anaheim Angels - 2002 World Series Champions)
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To: cajungirl
I want to contribute to his opponent. I want him stomped. Defeated. Crushed. Finished, Humiliated. And his Daddy too.

Ah lock the way ya tock....

57 posted on 02/07/2006 5:56:14 PM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (expell the fat arrogant carcasses of Congress)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

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.


58 posted on 02/07/2006 6:00:12 PM PST by oldbill
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