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No, I think in truth he has moved farther and farther to the Left as he left office. He actually ran as a conservative to middle of the road Democrat in 1976. Mo Udall and others were to the Left of him. Scoop Jackson to the right, but there is no longer a Jackson wing of the Democratic Party.

Jimmy made me a Republican for which I am grateful but he can still make my blood boil.

Jimmy Carter is the reason why people like us stopped being anti-communist liberals and became Republican conservatives. He made us realize the Democratic Party was beyond salvation. And reflection makes one realize that his zeitgest has continued to inform the Rats view on life in America and how we should deal with our adversaries abroad. One would think 911 would have discredited the hand-wringers and Nervous Nellies on our national scene so the vacuity of Jimmy's penetrating insights is an illustration that not even the slaughter of three thousand innocent Americans can get him and his ilk to finally wake up and admit they're wrong. Indeed as he once advised us to get over our inordinate fear of Communism, he seems to be advising us today to get rid of our inordinate fear of terrorism and radical Islam. As long as Jimmy can feel good about himself it doesn't matter whether America pays a terrible price down the road. We now have in the White House a President we can respect and a leader we can look up to. President Bush like Ronald Reagan before him, is more a man and American than Jimmy will ever amount to, a fact acknowledged by history.

Jimmy made me a Republican for which I am grateful but he can still make my blood boil.

Same for me. I always assumed that the majority of the "grew up in the '60's" people also saw the obvious with the Carter then Reagan "before and after" example of what America could be. The Clintons were elected and all the original '60's wackos came out the woodwork with their offspring, 100 times wackier and numerous than could have been imagined in 1968.