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Originally Posted by Dutch
Carter transcended party affiliation with his ineptitude. He was less inspiring than HW Bush and didn't have a glorious foreign policy track record to give him a fighting chance...basically, after 4 years, he had nothing to show for except blunders and failures and distress. I guess you could blame it on his liberalism, but he just made bad choices or no choices at all when America needed somebody to make choices. Along came Ronald Reagan and was the hero for saying the things that had to be said and doing the things that had to be done. Much of Reagan's successful legacy is emphasized by those who could more clearly remember President Carter's days in office.
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I'm not going to argue that he was a crappy leader. He didn't give much confidence to the public which is a big element of being President.
But the blaming his "liberalism" is just hilarious considering he was more conservative than Reagan on economic issues (which is one of the big things he gets bashed for). His economic policies are the same one's being touted by those on the right right now. It's just amusing to see people on the right bash Carter and then go around saying the way to fix the recession is to do the same stuff Carter did.
That's not defending Carter in any way. It's just that those bashing him the most don't seem to know what he did. They are just regurgitating talking points. Sort of like how Reagan was a great conservative.