Jimmy Carter: Zell Miller 'Betrayed' Me

NewsMax ^ | Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003

[Kaslin]

For the story behind the story...

Failed former president Jimmy "Malaise" Carter says the appointment of popular Georgia Democrat Zell Miller to the U.S. 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 criticism from prominent Democrats of 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," the Associated Press reported today.

Questioned by Colmes, Carter said, "I would rather not even comment about Zell Miller on the radio," but then called the appointment "one of the worst mistakes" then-Gov. Roy Barnes, another Democrat, made in his final four years in office.

Miller, sounding more like an abuse-absorbing Republican than the lifelong Democrat he is, today dismissed Carter's comments and called him a friend of more than four decades.

"And over those 40-plus years, I bet I've received about two dozen personal notes from Jimmy Carter," Miller said. "Half of them are giving me hell, and the other half are bragging on me. So, I figure I'm doing OK batting .500 with Jimmy Carter."

Carter will likely have more to complain about next year, when Republicans are heavily favored to pick up the seat after Miller retires.

[Kaslin]

I saw it replayed this morning on Fox and Friends and almost screamed at my TV when they played the schtick with Jimmy Peanut Carter

[Always Right]

This is like de ja vu all over agian....

[Ichneumon]

Jimmy Carter: Zell Miller 'Betrayed' Me

All the more reason to respect him.

[alloysteel]

Jimmy Carter should be one to speak of betrayal. Iran, Panama, Israel, to name a few. He effectively shredded any foreign policy we had at the time. If he could have, he would have given Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba, and where would we have to put "enemy combatants" today?

[longtermmemmory]

Jimmy Carter expands his failure to include his ex-presidency.

He is just upset that his Carter Center for International affairs is irrelevent in a world of a democrat super minority. It has no gravitas.

BTW: Habitat for Humanity was NOT a Carter idea. It was something he became involved with after he lost to reagan. It became part of his image rehab effort.

[Redbob]

Deja vu, indeed, since this article was previously posted by Kattracks.

[randog]

...he would have given Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba, and where would we have to put "enemy combatants" today?

A peanut farm comes to mind.

[Kaslin]

There was a similar article posted by Kattracks, but not this one.

Betrayed By His Party (Zell Miller)

[.cnI redruM]

Go build houses, Jimmy. That way you will be nailing plywood and cellutex and won't be nailing anyone's reputation.

[DannyTN]

First reading I thought Carter had endorsed Bush. I was starting to wonder if I had missed something about Bush that made him unfit.

[JoeBobJr]

I'm so tired of the damn peanut farmer being on TV. My wife changes the channel whenever he comes on, because she knows how pissy I get.

[night reader]

Jimmy Carter: Zell Miller 'Betrayed' Me

Like Jimmy Carter didn't betray the entire country!

[Steven W.]

Jimmy Carter was on Softball with Chrissie Matthews last night & was lying about Republicans winning the governorship this last election. Carter told Chrissie that it was because of the confederate flag issue, that the Democrat had taken it down but the Republican wanted to put it back up again. For those who recall, it was actually that the DemoncRAT governor had gerrymandered the house seats and ended up losing the Senate seat, house seat & governorship for their misdoings.

[Howlin]

MEOW

Ring a bell?

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038570/posts

I think Redbob means this post.

[kellynla]

Carter’s policies gave us an energy crisis to which his remedy was to wear a sweater. His foreign policy allowed American hostages to be taken in Iran, and lost us the Panama Canal. His economic policies gave us double digit inflation and record unemployment. The presidency of Jimmy Carter plunged America into a ''malaise,'' and his post presidential legacy is one of supporting blood thirsty dictators such as Castro and Daniel Ortega against the wishes of the people suffering under those tyrants. President Carter said, Americans have an ''irrational fear of communism.'' All the Habitat for Humanity houses he builds can never erase the failed policies of his administration, and his affinity for a political system that is responsible for the deaths of over 200 million people. Carter failed as a leader and betrayed Americans and freedom loving people around the world!

[Lee Heggy]

"Carter says the appointment of popular Georgia Democrat Zell Miller to the U.S. Senate was a mistake because his fellow ex-governor "betrayed all the basic principles that I thought he and I and others shared."

In that case we have a majority of 'mistakes' in the Senate.

[newgeezer]

All the more reason to respect him.

"Respect," eh? Zell Miller was happy to advance the friggin' Democrat agenda right up to the moment he was sure a break from his cronies would cost him exactly nothing (e.g. the seat, the prestige, the pension, the whatever-else-goes-with-it). Then and only then, the allegedly 'real' Zell Miller showed up. This earns your respect?

Maybe he's going out with a 'bang' in the hope of causing everyone to take notice of and remember the 'real' Zell as a stand-up guy, a patriot's patriot, the sort of guy who isn't afraid of doing 'the right thing.' In that case, maybe nothing's changed after all; the real Zell cares about nothing and no one but Zell.

If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear about it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Hey Jimmuh boy. Peanut man.

What goes around comes around, eh?

Seems to me Jimmy done doublecrossed his governor, the governor of GA he served under, Lester Maddox. Used Maddox to get to the state house, then read the riot act to to Maddox and basically told him off and reneged all his promises and turned 'liberal'.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Hey Jimmuh boy. Peanut man.

What goes around comes around, eh?

Seems to me Jimmy done doublecrossed his governor, the governor of GA he served under, Lester Maddox. Used Maddox to get to the state house, then read the riot act to to Maddox and basically told him off and reneged all his promises and turned 'liberal'.