Don't question Bruce Dickinson - er, I mean Jimmy Carter. The man is an accomplished statesman.

Seriously, try to type that last sentence without giggling.

bush is an accomplished statesman.

you're right, it's impossible not to giggle like a bush twin.

President George W. Bush is an accomplished statesman. No giggles, just fact.

...I'm beginning to wonder of JC isn't a couple of 2X4's short of a sturdy frame, if you get my drift...

I like the "partisanship" bit. He fails to recognize all the shenanigans that Democrats played in the whole Florida issue - including designing the ballot to favor Democrats.

What does the Florida Supreme Court have anything to do with Nader running in Florida? Isn't ol' Jimmy in favor of open Democracy? Doesn't he want "every vote to count"? And should ANY felons be voting? Why are Dems in favor of letting felons vote (85 percent vote Democrat) but opposed to military absentee voting? I don't get it....

"who wins"

I'd love to see Jimmy run for office again in Georgia.

He'd lose by forty points, in any statewide race. And he knows it.

Mercifully, I've lost all memory of how and why Carter was elected.

Mercifully, I've lost all memory of how and why Carter was elected.

A liberal arguing for big, intrusive government?

no.

I *don't* believe it.

"Mercifully, I've lost all memory of how and why Carter was elected."
Well, we know how by voting, and why, well the criminals that were running the county were kicked out.
It is funny how you all say you believe in american democracy or call yourselves patriots, but you would really prefer a one-party system and you would call that democracy.

trueamerican,

If we *had* two parties that were worthy of holding power, it woudn't be a problem. The problem is that one of them is currently disconnecting from reality, and has set itself up to benefit politically only when America suffers.

If people like Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman ran the Democratic party, we'd be happy as clams. Instead we get John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi...and see it as a personal mission to make sure people like them are kept as far away from the halls of power as possible.

We want the best people in power, not a balance for the sake of balance. There's nothing wrong with one-party dominated Democracy if the other party refuses to progress.

This probably will be the last election in which the Democratic Party is, however nominally, a national party.

It is only appropriate that the hideous, dictator-coddling, partisan whore Carter, who essentially destroyed that party through his ignorance, arrogance, and outright graft (yes, check some recent Carter Center audits), is the face that has been put to this farewell election. Unlike Kerry, a tiny man in an empty suit, Carter truly is evil, which makes him at least interesting in the way AIDS or any other deadly disease is. Never has there been a more apt spokesman for a bad product. And Mr. Carter: this election won't be close enough for you to lay the groundwork for lawsuits. Sorry.

Is it just me, or does Jimmy Carter remind anyone else of Chauncy Gardner?

Chauncy was a timid and kind person who served as a vessel for others, Whiskey. Carter is an embittered hack determined to take down the world with him. Like most of his kind, Carter and his pals will go down while everyone waves goodbye.

"Uniformity in voting procedures, so that all citizens, regardless of their social or financial status, have equal assurance that their votes are cast in the same way and will be tabulated with equal accuracy."

Funny, isn't it, but this is damn near the same reason the U.S. Supreme Court shut down the "let's keep trying to find more votes for Al Gore" re-counting that occured in Florida in 2000.

And, of course, it's also true that twenty-four of the twenty-five Florida counties with the highest ballot spoilage rates had Democrats as county supervisors. The 25th county had an Independent.

I remain stunningly unconvinced that counties run by Democrats, which ran their own elections, were trying intentionally to stifle the Democratic vote.

Does make one wonder if Carter actually ever read the Constitution. Then again maybe he did and doesn't like what he sees.

Our X Presidents are known to do and say embarrassing things. Why can't they just fade away with some dignity like Ronald Reagan.

He never sold himself to sex enhancement product peddlers, he never said things that would disparage America, and he never accepted every speaking opportunity at any venue in order to remain relevant.

Dear Mr. Dole, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Clinton,
In the name of all that is holy, please sit down and shut up. You are embarrassing yourselves, the office you once held, and your country.

"Dear Mr. Dole, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Clinton,"

Um, if I still remember the 1996 Election correctly, one of those three is not an ex-president.

'well the criminals that were running the county were kicked out.'

gerald ford was a criminal? He got kicked out? Where'd he go? I saw him on TV when Reagan died.

Mr. Vee,
You are right, but you have to admit it strengthened my argument.

Just kidding, it was a dumb mistake. Thanks for the correction.

I Ithink True American is young, otherwise he/she would have realized that this country was under 1-party rule from about he 30s thru the 80s. We re now in transition to the other party, that's all.

Jimmy Carter, the product of a one-party state like Georgia was when he was in charge, has no right to criticize anybody for partisanship.

He bears at least some of the responsibility for Georgia's tectonic shift toward the GOP over the last several years.

Florida is too big a place for Jimmeh to institute change; he ought to just focus on Miami/Dade. Corrupt electoral practices isn't anything resembling a new thing in Florida; Jimmeh would have perhaps bought a bit more credibility for himself if he'd started bitching about this back in the late '80s and early '90s, when the dead vote could cost you the election.