Ken Blackwell really ought to get out of the business of trying to gloss over Carter's obscene behavior (which includes the most anti-semetic statements seen from any president prior to the current Kenyan sack o'feces) and just stick to the facts:
The legacy of Carter is one of cartoonish so-called 'leadership' and appeasement which makes Neville Chamberlain look like a raging warmonger by comparison.
Forget the Hyde Amendment. What did the Hyde Amendment effectively do to prevent the current American Holocaust of the unborn which we have finally seen recorded on video and exposed for what it is? Trying to salvage Carter's 'humanity' by invoking the Hyde Amendment is a lesson in utter shamelessness. Ken Blackwell should know better.
Carter turned Iran, from a loyal and dependable U.S. ally under the Shah, into a rogue state under the excretable Ayatollah Khomeini and his goons who seized our Embassy, imprisoned and tortured our fellow Americans for 444 days, all the while the Buffoon from Georgia wrung his hands helplessly, and sent his equally buffoonish National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to Amman Jordan in the spring of 1980 to meet with representatives of Iraq's Saddam Hussein (some say with Saddam himself) to convey the message that the U.S. would not look adversely upon Iraq pursuing it's territorial conflicts with Iran by direct military action.
Not long after that, Iraq attacked Iran, precipitating the 8 year Iraq-Iran War, the massacres of hundreds of thousands of people, all in the misguided belief that by instigating that war, it would somehow pressure the Ayatollah to release our hostages. In Plains Georgia, if someone steals your prize hog, it might work if you get some big local bubba to burn down the suspect's barn to 'send 'em a message' but that cornpone logic won't work in the middle east, in fact the only message they understand is overwhelming military force, which is why Carter's limp dick 'rescue mission' at Desert One failed and collapsed as it did. It wasn't until Ronald Reagan was sworn in on January 20, 1981, that the mullahs realized that if they didn't release those hostages, that the Gipper was going to unleash the dogs of war right on top of their raggedy heads. They feared Reagan, and laughed at Carter.
Ken Blackwell has deluded himself into thinking that in some obtuse manner, that it was Carter opposing abortion that put Reagan in the White House. How stupid does one have to be to think, let alone propose such an absurd theory?
Here are the reasons Reagan flushed Jimmy Carter like the turd he was in a 44 state landslide:
Inflation: Up and continuing up.
Unemployment: Up and continuing up.
Cost of Energy: Up and continuing up.
Interest Rates: Up, Up and Away.
Respect for America: Down, Down, Down.
U.S. Military Superior: Decimated by Carter (killed the B-1 bomber, remember?)
America said 'enough is enough', which is why they chose Ronald Reagan who has already gone down in history as the greatest President in the 20th Century:
And we sure did. And nothing Carter has said or done in the years following will erase the definition of him as the
'Skidmark in the Panties of America's History'