Jimmy Carter Hits Bottom, Digs

Whoa - Jimmy Carter unloaded a few whoppers with Chris Matthews on "Hardball" recently. (hat tip: lgf) In the most recent episode of his slide into fatuousness, the former president asserts that the American Revolution "could have been avoided" and that we could have "gotten our independence in a non-violent way". Perhaps this could have been achieved if we had all sat down at a peace table with the redcoats and carefully explained that we didn't really appreciate taxation without representation, and that we were all tired of the nastiness, and, couldn't we all just get along? We could be like Canada right now, a Commonwealth member still proclaiming themselves subjects of the crown, as their socialist utopia disintegrates into bureaucratic irrelevance.

Jimmah's been spreading around a lot of wisdom lately, taking a seat of esteem next to Michael Moore at the Democratic National Convention, spouting non sequiturs against the current president, putting his stamp of approval on Venezuela's recent phony election. He has become more radical since captaining his impotent administration, whose non-reaction to the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 encouraged the primrose path of Islamic fascism we enjoy today.

Now, appropriately, he has become one of the figureheads of the Democratic Party, joining Gore, Moore, et al in what has become known in conservative circles as the "fever swamp" of the left. Ironically he may exert more influence with those in his party today than when he was president, to the centrist democrats' detriment.