Think: what other prominent elected official—Democratic official at that —could say the following in front of two thousand people and get away with it?
“A word about Jimmy Carter. I happen to think he was one of the worst Presidents we’ve ever had. Probably worse than President Fill-more. It was not simply because he instructed that a vote against Israel on an unfair resolution be cast—it is that he didn’t tell the trooooth. He tells me, ‘I’— Carter—‘I didn’t know what was in the resolution. It was Friday.’ What, he doesn’t read on Shabbes? Now, when he asked me to help, I said to him, ‘Oh, I’m gonna vote for you, Mr. President, I’m a Democrat. Listen, I voted for George McGovern, I held my nose, still I voted for him. But I’m not gonna campaign.’ [So Carter, at the last moment, modified his stand on federal takeover of Medicare, Jerusalem, offensive weaponry for Saudi Arabia. And Koch flew down to Miami as Jewish ambassador.] I said at the airport, ‘Look, Carter changed his position. So that’s why I’m here.’ And a very smart reporter said, ‘Why do you believe him?’ And I said, ‘If he’s lying, may he rot in hell.’ And I wanna tell you, he was ly-ing.”
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