I can't believe I'm saying this, because he's my hero, but President Carter, Shut up!

[WI_DEM]

Former President Jimmy Carter told MSNBC that President Obama would likely win re-election this fall, but said that he would be fine with Mitt Romney as president.

Said Carter: "I'd rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable -- I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive... that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the Olympics as you know. He's a good solid family man and so forth, he's gone to the extreme right wing positions on some very important issues in order to get the nomination. What he'll do in the general election, what he'll do as president I think is different."

http://politicalwire.com/

[BigDemVoter]

1. Eeek!

I have TREMENDOUS respect for President Carter and his wife, but WTF?????

He DOES need to shut his cake hole on this particular issue!

[teddy51]

2. I also love Former President Carter, but wonder what part of Romney's flip/flopping and

many other negative aspects the good President missed. Just the fact that Romney is a Republican should be enough to turn one off.

[RZM]

35. I think the flip-flopping is actually what Carter is praising

He's flipped to the right for the primaries, so Carter seems to think he'll now flop to the center for the general and govern that way if elected.

[ZM90]

3. Carter's quote seems like a double edged sword to me on one hand it might make the repuke base hate

rmoney even more but, on the other hand it could draw independents to him. Since the repuke base already hates rmoney yeah President Carter should probably keep his mouth shut lest he make independents think rmoney is acceptable.

[LiberalAndProud]

5. I agree, ZM90. It sounds like psi-ops to me.

Psych!

[Bake]

12. I don't think psy-ops are what is needed here.

I respect Pres. Carter, but he's wrong on this one. We DON'T know what a Pres. Rmoney would do, but it's a safe bet that he'd do whatever his corporate masters tell him to do. The GOP today is not the same GOP that existed when Rmoney was governor. It's even more extreme and dangerous. And I wouldn't count on Rmoney to buck his fellow GOPers in Congress -- i.e., all the teabaggers.

JC is wrong on this one.

Bake

[ZombieHorde]

4. Perhaps he is using reverse psychology on conservatives. nt

[Bandit]

6. I think he is saying , in comparrison to ANY other Republican

I sort of feel the same way.. If, god forbid a Republican were to win the Presidency I can only hope it would be Romney instead of any other one I can think of.. That said I want no Republican anywhere near the Presidency for the next generation or two at the very least..

[WilliamPitt]

7. The more Carter says nice things about Romney...

...the more the GOP base will go WHAAAAAAAAARGARBLE!!!1111!!!1!1

They're already freaking out because Romney hired one 'o them hommasechshulls to be his campaign's national security spokesperson.

Just sayin'.

[C_U_L8R]

11. yes indeed... WHAAAAAAAAARGARBLE!!!1111!!!1!1

I can hear their little GOP heads popping right now.

pfft pfft pzzt POOT !!!

[hfojvt]

17. So? Where else are they gonna go?

you think they aren't gonna vote for the lesser of two evils? You thnik they are gonna stay home in droves when they have a cro-magnon Congressperson to vote for? Ultimately Romney does not have to win the GOP base. Once he is the nominee he can take them for granted, and he has to win the center. He can always nominate a cro-magnon veep to throw a bone to the base.

[WilliamPitt]

29. The Evangelicals do stay home on occasion

They sure didn't turn out for McCain in '08 in the droves one would expect for a GOP candidate.

Just sayin'.

[hfojvt]

40. McCain got almost 60,000,000 votes

enough to beat Kerry in 2004, although 2 million fewer than Bush. Obama picked up a lot of moderate votes and basically got to run against Bush who blew up the economy in 2008. And Sarah Palin, althoug fully conservative was probably the wrong bone to throw to the base, a base which was no more ready to elect a woman Veep than the voters of 1984, especially not a woman veep widely regarded as even dumber than Danforth Quayle.

[hfojvt]

8. yeah, that's the kind of stupid stuff people said about Bush

that he was a moderate, just a teeny, tiny little bit to the right of Gore, and then also that with his narrow "win" that he would have to govern as a centrist.

Uh, yeah, it didn't exactly work out that way, did it?

[BeyondGeography]

9. Hurts the other guy more than Obama

Confirms the worst fears of the GOP base.

[hfojvt]

13. not really

because unless some rightwing version of Ralph Nader gets on the ballot in all 50 states, those people are still gonna vote for the lesser of two evils. But some, sort of moderate, centrist, undecided people might be swayed to vote for Romney.

[SmellyFeet]

21. +1. This tactic might work if they were voting for Romney, instead of against Obama. n/t

[cali]

14. and soothes indepenents. It's a wash and a dumb thing to say.

[BeyondGeography]

15. Plus it's Carter and few will care

[lsewpershad]

10. AGREED 100%

[ecstatic]

16. Unfortunately, I've been hearing some people say this

They assume Romney will be harmless. I don't think anyone can say for sure how Romney would act as president. He's too much of a flake, IMO.

[karynnj]

18. I respect Carter's work after the Presidency, but I remember that he was as Conservative

as a Democrat can now be. In fact, he was as conservative as all the blue dogs that DU does not usually like. Culturally, he is likely not more liberal or progressive than Romney was as Massachusetts governor. One thing that I fortunately did not know until reading it on DU - and then verifying it, is that as governor of Georgia, he proclaimed a Lt Calley day after he was released from prison. Where I do get that some felt he was scapegoated and no one higher was tried, but he was a convicted mass murdered who greatly damaged the image of our country and military. While I do think after he was released he should have been allowed to live his life, but the idea that anyone did anything to honor him in the least is just wrong.

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. Carter just told the Repub base that Rmoney is a "liberal".

"Carter likes him, that is how much of a librul Rmoney is." Damned with faint praise, sorta. The extreme mainstream will HATE this. They all suspect this, but Carter just gave away the game, so to speak. This is pushing FUD toward the teapublickers. "The game is rigged, might as well stay home."

Nicely done, Mr. President, nicely done.

[Octafish]

20. +1

Brave man, too.

[SmellyFeet]

23. The Republicans already know that. They'll be voting against Obama, not for Romney.

Doesn't change a thing, other than make Carter look like he's lost it.

[Gold Metal Flake]

31. Sorry about your ban, dude.

[redqueen]

33. lol

And +1 on your response to the OP

[Gold Metal Flake]

36. Thank you.

[Beacool]

22. Ahhhhh, Carter.........

The former president who has been a thorn on the side of every president who came after him.

[Drale]

24. I saw him on Monday

They are having the Noble Summit at my school, and I saw him walking from a black SUV to the building.

[Skip Intro]

25. Well, it's either going to be Obama or Romney.

If it's not going to be Obama, I'd rather Romney than Santorum or Gingrich or Bachmann or Cain or....

[Egalitarian Thug]

26. President Carter was the lesson the Democratic Party refuses to learn. n/t

[aikoaiko]

27. From a left leaning Super-PAC ad: "Even Jimmy Carter thinks Mitt is swell."

bwahahahahaha.

That would make a great political ad for us.

[kestrel91316]

28. Dear Jimmy: Mitt is no moderate, and he's certainly no progressive.

What he is someone who would gladly turn the US into a theocracy if he thought it would gain him anything at all.

[Courtesy Flush]

30. Reverse psychology

Now if we can only get Obama to endorse him... Even Mitt won't vote Republican.

[Lil Missy]

32. Carter gave Mittens the kiss of death!

[Rex]

34. lol @ 'fairly competent'!

Is this how far the Empire has fallen?

President Carter is always a nice guy and I hate it. I will admit I wish he would be a meaner person.

That makes me a bad person, doesn't it?

[kentuck]

37. This is supposed to be the reaction of Republicans.

OMG! Jimmy Carter endorsed Mitt Romney! EEK !!

[GeorgeGist]

38. Senility?

[sabrina 1]

39. More likely tactics. Why would you think he is senile? Not every older person

is senile. He's a very smart man, looks to me like he basically gave Romney a kiss of death as far as Republicans are concerned, who are already not happy with him. Be interesting to see how rightwingers are reacting to Carter's 'endorsement'. It's likely to scare them to death.