Sergeant Gomer Pyle Carter reporting for duty

Excellent piece this morning by one of the intellectuals over at FrontPageMag regarding President Failure's historical love for tyrants and recent pronouncements that Bush was selected, not elected. It seems that Jimmuh forgot to take his meds and is blathering on about the election has already been stolen again by those meanies down in Florida.

Finally, Jimmy Carter—a man who has given the thumbs up to the “elections” of some of the world’s worst tyrants—has found an election with which he can take issue.

Too bad the one place in the world he is willing to single out for scolding—preemptively—is Florida. (And expect the DNC to be waving it in the event of a close race there.)

Don't worry - they're already planning for the recount in several states. Gore set the table, now Lurch & John Boy are going to chow down.

Beyond Carter's nitwittery about Florida 2000 - which these bedwetting leftists will still not shut up about - Carter's history is littered with the carcasses of faux elections that he called "fair and square".

Because of provisions in the infamous Oslo Accords, Palestinians in 1996 had their first—and to date, only—opportunity to elect their own leader. Not that they had much of a choice, though.

Controlling all major television and radio, Yasser Arafat made sure that he dominated the airwaves. Editors and reporters at newspapers not directly under Arafat’s thumb were threatened and intimidated with beatings and arrests. And Arafat’s sole opponent was a 72-year-old woman, a social worker named Samiha Khalil who got, in the words of the New York Times, a "surprisingly high" 9 percent of the vote.

Hardly the stuff of a real election, yet Carter described this mess as "open and fair."

You know how much Jimmuh loves the PLO and islamofascists in general. So much so, that he donated several of our helicopters to them in Iran back in '79. While Carter loves those radical islamists - he's not in love with them - his true loves are Central American Marxists.

Carter's love of thugs has not waned over the years. Last month, he certified the widely condemned referendum in which Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez supposedly won by a wide margin of 59-to-41.

Exit polling conducted by the highly regarded Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, however, found the exact opposite result: 59 percent opposed the communist "President," with only 41 percent in favor.

As explained by the Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady, Carter lacked the ability to prove the exit polls wrong (which could not have been 36 points off), because he only had access to a sampling of the easy-to-manipulate software tabulations printed out by voting booths. Not that it stopped him, though.

It should come as no surprise that Carter sided with the despot over a respected (Democratic) polling firm. Not just because of his disturbing track record, but because he and Chavez share a close, mutual friend: Fidel Castro.

In a stomach-turning first-person essay on his trip to Cuba in May 2002 that reads like a "My summer vacation with a bloodthirsty tyrant," Jimmy Carter writes, "President Castro and I had a friendly chat about growing peanuts" on the way to the hotel, and then later "[t]hat evening President Castro and I had a general discussion of issues and then enjoyed an ornate banquet."

With prose that might make even Castro’s PR flacks blush, Carter lavishes praise on Cuba’s "superb systems of health care and universal education," "a remarkable medical school," and the "amazing musical and dance performances" of "mentally retarded and physically handicapped children." Then, this doozy: that the "fundamental right [of civil liberties enjoyed by Americans to change laws] is also guaranteed to Cubans."

What Carter neglected to mention was that while he was staying at a hotel off-limits to ordinary Cubans, Castro was probably busy killing a political enemy or jailing innocent citizens.

Ol' Jimmy Carter was and always will be a presidential failure and a mental midget. It is nice to have him around, though. We need the entertainment - all the new, younger leftists are so angry that they're just no fun.

Others blogging the peanut president:

In the Bullpen - Carter decries Florida
Right on Red - Mondale's Running Mate Speaks
Bill at INDC - Jimmy Who?
Blogs of War - Democrats floating conspiracy theories again