Well he must be astonished by the Democrat Party as well, because they do that on a daily basis. And yet he didn't appear to be. Maybe it was the Alzheimers.
Anyway, this is what happens when you allow Democrats to vote - they make the worst decision available to them. Every. Single. Time.
But the Democrat Party - the people in charge, not the randos on the street - knew Carter wasn't a world leader, and yet they put him up anyway. It's not like there weren't other (better) choices. So there's a reason for that. Candidates don't just decide to run for office and create an organic following - they are carefully vetted and chosen by the Party leaders, then groomed and promoted. They know who the nominee will be long before the primary. It's always been that way for both parties except in the case of Trump - they didn't see that one coming, despite their best efforts to steer and manipulate.
"They" said Ford lost because he pardoned Nixon, but that's bullshit. The American public doesn't have that type of attention span, they probably barely remembered Nixon was president. What really happened is that the media fawned on Jimmah and painted him as folksy everyman, and that is what appealed to the public. And even then it wasn't by a big margin.
They did the same with Biden, but it couldn't hold up to scrutiny in the information age. Good ol' Joe....the lying, pedo, groper, corrupt, crooked, schemer, incompetent....who can't relate to that?
