Jimmy Carter tries to give hope to the floundering left

I’m not exactly sure why Jimmy Carter keeps getting legitimized by our press but people seem to listen to what he says.  I still can’t remember a time when he had anything worth listening to.  As a kid I do remember him standing with the warlords of the middle east and holding hands in hopes that the world would see him as some great peacemaker.

The things I do remember him doing were to reintroduce the socialist bailout philosophies of FDR by saving Chrysler.  He did move to deregulate the airline industry which to me is a good thing.  Deregulation is always a good move in a capitalist economy.  It ultimately hurts some but is a promoter of freedom and free industry.  It spawns growth and new ideas.  The cream rises to the top in a deregulated economy.

But the honest to goodness truth is that in this free market economy the lobbyists have such a stronghold that the government is ultimately in control by all the glad-handing going on in Washington.  That puts the big money deals directly into the pockets of those with the most power and influence rather than giving it to those with the best ideas and best interest for the people.

Jimmy Carter showed his true yellow color when he boycotted the 1980 summer olympics.  It is my opinion that no matter what is going on in the world, except at the expense of our freedom and safety, that the United States should go wherever they can and shine our humanitarian light because we are a standard to the world and should never shrink to an opportunity to stand up and compete, to excel and to be an example of a people who will not cower in the face of adversity.

Competition and grit is the essence of what built this great nation and society.  But what does it matter, that was thirty years ago, right?  It’s not like he set a presedent for things to come or anything.

Today Carter compared  his run for the presidency to the surge in popularity of the Tea Party

“I was a candidate that was in some ways like the tea party candidate,” Carter said in an interview. “I was a complete outsider. I capitalized legitimately on the dissatisfaction that was permeating our society.

“I think they’re going to be quite a major factor in November,” he said. “I think there’s already a process of absorbing them into the Republican Party. I think they will be much less of a factor in 2012 and in future years.”

 One important thing that P38 is forgetting about is the Ronald Reagan landslide ass-beating of 1980.  Jimmy Carter constantly wants to set himself up as some sort of historical figure to be remembered.  He is still trying to establish his legacy in a positive light but the facts remain and history can’t be rewritten.  Jimmy Carter was a failure as a president.  Stagflation became the word of the term and the Iran hostage crisis was the pinnacle.

Now he wants to try to inject hope into the hearts of the clearly defeated leftist politicians who threw all their hope into the Obama egg basket by telling us that just as he was a temporary change due to the disenfranchisement of the American people, so will be the Tea Party victories in 2010.  But he says it will not last into 2012.

Well he is seeing things wrong.  The truth is that the Jimmy Carter of this generation is President Obama and the Ronald Reagan is the Tea Party movement.  If the Tea Party movement is absorbed into the Republican party then it will be a much needed light shed on the darkness that has permeated the party over the past 20 or so years.

In any case, the Tea Party is going to save us from the enemy that has infiltrated our government and schemed for so many  years, so patiently and so subtley to destroy and dismiss the power of our mighty constitution.

I see it this way.  The difference is that those who have hope in the future and in our constitution as it was instituted centuries ago are the people who have a faith in Christ and/or in a God who loves and who saves.  That is hope.

Those who want to globalise everything and who look to Europe as the standard of government and society are those who need tangible evidence to everything before they will believe or support something.  I boils down to believers and non-believers if it is to be put into a proverbial context, and that’s what I see happenning.

A great outpouring of knowledge and inspiration has just taken place.  We can’t see it but those who are prepared can sense it and they are being affected by it and continuing to be prepared for what is to come. 

God bless us all and God bless this great nation.