Carter Still a Traitor?

While Rocky Anderson thinks he is clever to call GW Bush the worst president this country has ever had to endure, he is constantly being proven wrong by former-president JE Carter.  Not only was the Carter administration misguided at almost every turn - with the consequences to prove it - he continues to show the north end of his south bound donkey (pun not intended) to the world.  His globe- trotting to make friends of those who are unfriendly to America, and who will remain so for the foreseeable future, is nothing if not anathema to our interests, especially our security interests.

There is one parallel between the Carter election and that of the current campaign season.  Carter was elected on the tide of anti-Nixon sentiment and the result of his time in office was double-digit inflation, interest rates that remained high, unemployment that remained high and, the seminal event of our war with Islamic fundamentalism: the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis.

The parallel to this season's presidential race is that even though there is Bush fatigue, from both sides of the isle but for different reasons, choosing a president that is the anti-Bush may yield results similar to the ones realized by the results of the anti-Nixon election of 1980.  (Just imagine how much damage a disgruntled former president Obama could do given his young age or how much damage the Clinton hate machine could do with Bill and Hillary dividing and conquering.)