December 11, 2003

LIKE NIXON CALLING REAGAN STRANGE, CARTER CALLING SOMEONE ELSE'S GOVERNMENT SERVICE A MISTAKE:

Carter: Miller's Senate appointment was 'mistake' (The Associated Press, 12/11/03)

Former President Jimmy Carter says the appointment of Georgia's Zell Miller to the Senate was a mistake because his fellow ex-governor "betrayed all the basic principles that I thought he and I and others shared."

The comments, which Carter made Wednesday on the radio program FOX News Live with Alan Colmes, are the latest in a string of attacks prominent Democrats have made lately concerning the maverick senator who has endorsed President Bush's re-election and penned a new book arguing his party is out of touch with the South.

When Colmes asked Carter about Miller, the former president first said, "I would rather not even comment about Zell Miller on the radio," then proceeded to call the appointment "one of the worst mistakes" then-Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes made in his final four years in office.


Of course, unlike Mr. Carter, when Mr. Miller went back before the people in the subsequent election he won. So it can't have been too big a mistake, unlike the election of Mr. Carter.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 11, 2003 2:22 PM
Comments

You'd think Carter, supposedly a bright man, would see how the South is becoming completely dominated by the GOP (see 2000, 2002 elections, trends for 2004 elections) and realize that his Democrats are out of touch

Posted by: AWW at December 11, 2003 2:53 PM

Could Jimmah get elected to any statewide office anywhere in the south today?

The green-eyed monster strikes.

Posted by: Casey Abell at December 11, 2003 3:23 PM

Why is Carter still held in such high esteem as "a person"? From what I have seen of him, he is a grumpy, big-headed, sore loser with an inflated self-righteousness. Is about time America's "favorite ex-Presidency" be ranked down to the levels of his actual Presidency.

Posted by: MG at December 11, 2003 6:32 PM

Jimmy would have a hard time getting elected in Cynthia McKinney's old district today, let alone the entire state of Georgia, though Jimmy and Cindy's foreign policy political beliefs are pretty close together nowadays...

Posted by: John at December 11, 2003 11:11 PM

Carter has become worse than George McGovern: another man who suffered a terrible loss, only to take heart in the fact that the media savaged his successor. However, Carter's record cannot be swept away, and his foolishness grows every day. He was stupid enough to let his contempt for Bill Clinton become public knowledge (surely because he resented Clinton being tagged a "successful" Democratic president by the media, which Jimmy could never seduce).

Zell Miller has more integrity in his toenails than Jimmy Carter has in his entire body.

Posted by: jim hamlen at December 12, 2003 12:04 AM

I would hope the President could find a responsible position for ole Zell. He's an icon to be preserved for his honesty ... and a former Marine!

Posted by: genecis at December 13, 2003 10:28 PM
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