It's a bad idea to recruit anti-choice Dem candidates...it's also an OLD idea.

[brer cat]

2. That is totally irrelevant to any discussion today.

However, I will point out that you are putting President Carter in a box of your own making, conflating his personal spiritual beliefs with his positions as an elected official. In his own words:

In an interview about how faith informs his political beliefs, Carter says it is difficult for him to spiritually reconcile certain reproductive rights afforded every human woman under international law with his understanding of the Bible.

“I have a hard time believing that Jesus, for instance,” Carter tells HuffPo Live host Marc Lamont, “would approve abortions, unless it was because of rape, or incest, or if the mother’s life was in danger.”

Carter explains he has supported abortion rights in office because he took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, which Carter believes protect the right to abortion. [/]