- Remember "The Carter Rule"

If he says it's sunny outside...bring an umbrella.

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Jimmy Carter wasn't just the worst president of the 20th century, he's the only man I've ever heard of who was universally wrong on every issue he's ever spoken about. Ted Kennedy might have been harmful to America, but at least he knew how to sail a boat and mix a martini. I'm quite certain Carter could manage to screw up even that. In Carter's world, higher taxes bring prosperity, appeasement brings capitulation, labor unions add economic efficiency, rabbits are deadly, and the Jews brought it on themselves.

The Oracle of Delphi he isn't.

Some of my zanier relatives still believe he was communist plant, put in place 'Manchurian candidate' style to destroy America. I don't personally believe that, but given his performance as president it's tough for me to come up with much supporting evidence for my view.

His domestic policy brought generalized hardship (along with a malaise), gasoline shortages, high unemployment, high inflation, and a multitude of other little little bureaucratic policy changes that greatly weakened America's economic might. His foreign policy was so bad that in the near east alone it's taken us 30 years and two wars (along with nearly 5,000 dead) to recover just a portion of our prior influence. During Carter's presidency, our enemies felt safer, our friends felt abandoned, and the liberty of all Americans was substantially diminished.

From these and countless other positions held by our worst living president, I long ago developed "The Carter Rule" which states:

"Find out what position Jimmy Carter holds, and the most truthful, most successful option will always be achieved by pursuing the opposite view."

So based on 'The Carter Rule"; a rule that's so far proven to be 100% reliable, I'd say that not only will Obama's Healthcare effort fail, but the efforts of his supporters to make all of this a racial issue and to paint conservatives in the role of snidely whiplash in a Klan hood, will all blow up in their face.


I just wish he'd say a little more about the stock market.