I always kind of hoped Carter would have run again

[WI_DEM]

I have always been a big Jimmy Carter fan and I always hoped (and I know Roslyn Carter feels the same way) that JC would have run again. Maybe not in 1984 but in 1988 by which time his image was being greatly enhanced by the 8-years he spent as an activist former president. ('84 would have been too close to the events of his administration--and doubtful any democrat could have beat Reagan).

I understand why he never did run again since he has found his life and career since being president more rewarding than serving in the White House--but I still always hoped he would anyway.

It would have been interesting how a Carter-Poppy race in '88 would have developed.

[napsi]

1. No, I'll pass on that one.

President Carter is a fine man and his work since his presidency has been stellar. Having said that, I do not wish to return to 21% interest rates, inflation out of control and a weak defense of our nation. Carter was way out of his league. Unfortunately, decent, moral people are not up for the job as President. The politics of the office require a scumbag whether they be democrats or repugs.

Carter has done far more for humanity outside the office than he ever did inside the beltway.

Just my humble opinion

[Another Bill C.]

2. Jimmy Carter may have been

the most decent person to occupy the presidency in the last century. Decent people seem most susceptible to ridicule, though, and I think that's what would have kept him from a second presidency.

I think that contemporary standards, or the lack of them, make the election of a decent and/or intelligent president a remote possiblity.

[MasonJar]

3. Those interest rates were not his doing; they were inherited.

More GOP fraud and deception.

[VOX]

4. Absolutely correct. Remember Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" campaign?

And those silly "WIN" buttons? (I had a campus job next to an anatomy lab at college, and they hung a skeleton out in the hallway with a "WIN" button taped to his rib cage. Tacky, but the point was made.)

Carter happened to be standing watch when the hellaceous tab for the years of Nixon-folly came due. Carter was too nice a guy to blame his predecessors.

Speaking of Nixon, do you recall the wage-price freeze he instituted? Now *that* was popular! :evilfrown:

[jenk]

5. he had a better chance than Dukakis in 88

and Carter was only 63 I think, he might've beat Bush.