I can hear the right now. "Jimmy Carter"

[Dannyteague]

They are going to exploit this all the way until November.

[Odin2005]

1. Shit, I hope you are wrong.

[morningfog]

2. Disgusting. This is nothing at all like what happened under Carter.

They may try, but will look callous and petty.

[RandiFan1290]

3. You would be silly to try

It's not going to work. Good luck with that though

[Atman]

4. Oh yeah...already started.

I got a FB post yesterday saying that Jimmy Carter left a worse mess for Lord Reagan than Bush left Obama.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Half the electorate, bless them, barely know who he is

if at all. Carter was post-Vietnam; he became a symbol of our wounded pride. Obama has ended one war, is ending another, and has killed OBL in the process. He has a 20-point lead on foreign policy over Romney. Different era, different circumstances.

With that, banging the war drum irresponsibly, which Mitt and the Right will do, will only remind most people what they don't want from their next President.

[gkhouston]

6. +1. Genius move, Republicans, to compare Obama to the guy who's probably had

the best post-Presidency resume in decades.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. +1

Riverdale knows best!

[BeyondGeography]

9. Hey there

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. In all honesty... the DEMs ran against Herbert Hoover well into the 1980s.

Hoover... despite his ideological faults .... was mostly unlucky.

He was better equipped , intellectually at least, than the GOPers who preceded him and in some ways , better-equipped than FDR. ( Not as good a president, of course, but that's a different question.)

Point: Hoover wasn't as bad as we made him out to be and Carter was much better than the GOP wishes to remember.

I don't think the tactic will resonate much. For most of the reasons laid-out by Beyond Geography, among others

[malaise]

10. I can see the trolls too

Enjoy your stay

[Dannyteague]

11. Carter got them all out alive.

Deserved much credit for that.

[truebrit71]

12. I disagree. The only thing that will be exploited all the way to Nov will be Willard's despicable...

...statement...

Rmoney just proved how completely out of his depth he is...

[Avalux]

13. They will try, but I don't think it will work.

Completely different situation; stemming from a controversial film by a right wing douchebag.

[WI_DEM]

14. And we respond 'Ike' 1956 and the Suez Crisis and his cool

handling of that which averted war. That is Obama.