WorldNetDaily is reporting on the U.S. Senate run of Jack Carter, son of former President Jimmy Carter:

Carter, who has lived in Las Vegas since 2003 and is one of four children of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, announced yesterday he would seek the seat held by Nevada’s junior senator John Ensign, a Republican. A formal declaration will be made next month in Las Vegas, where he lives, and Carson City, where his mother will appear with him.

His website at first glance reveals nothing about his proposed stance on various issues, other than he is running as a Democrat, which should come as no big surprise. However, an article he wrote for the Elko Daily Free Press can give us some insights:

In a recent speech to the Heritage Foundation, Vice President Cheney defended the legality of an eavesdropping program that ignores Congress and bypasses judicial oversight and said, “Either we are serious about fighting this war or we are not.”

But being “serious about fighting this war” means more than launching a counter-attack at these immoral villains and destroying them. We must recognize that their real target is not just our people, but the ideas and values upon which we stand.

You can just feel what’s coming next, and Carter doesn’t disappoint:

Military theorists know that winning requires both a solid attack and a sober defense. Without the attack, Osama can regroup, lie in wait, and pick his time. Without the defense, we expose our core to a corrosive rot which may forfeit the war while we win the battle.

There is no doubt that torturing people is un-American. There is no doubt that unfettered eavesdropping on Americans by the executive branch is un-American. There is no doubt that holding prisoners without due process is un-American.

These are the spear marks our attackers left, every bit as much a wound as the gaping hole in New York’s skyline. These were inflicted, not by suicide bombers, but by Fear – the opponent of Values and the “other” weapon in the terrorists’ arsenal.

The first paragraph starts off as nothing I can disagree with, but then he uses the term “exposing our core to a corrosive rot”. Anybody want to take a guess as to what Mr. Carter thinks is “corrosive rot”? Basically, it’s everything Dems have accused the Bush administration of doing to win the war. Torture, eavesdropping, holding prisoners without due process.

Mr. Carter speaks of this “rot” as “spear marks our attackers left”, comparable to the marks left on New York, Washington D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. But these spear marks were inflicted by Americans themselves, by allowing Fear to chop away at the “values” of America.

The only corrosive rot I see is Mr. Carter’s apparent desire to treat terrorists as criminals instead of the scum-sucking pond scum that they are. To give the terrorists the same legitimacy, the same rights, that Americans have. They’re not criminals, they’re soldiers, and they deserve a soldier’s fate. If they’re caught out of uniform on a battlefield, string ‘em up.

As for torturing prisoners, I’ve heard not one thing in the news media that I would qualify as physical torture — not even the technique known as waterboarding.

Imagine the dilemma we would find ourselves in if politicians of Carter’s ilk have their way. We will have captured illegal combatants, but would be required to treat them as prisoners. These enemy combatants think they will attain Paradise and lots of sex with virgins if they die in the attempt to kill “infidels”. They are the kind of people you cannot negotiate with, despite Bin Laden’s recent offer of a truce.

Thew few Liberal blogs reporting on Carter’s candidacy, as one might imagine, are ecstatic at having the chance to elect a second Democrat Senator from Nevada to accompany Harry Reid to Washington.

Fired Up! America, a liberal blog, incorrectly attributes the source of Carter’s article to the Las Vegas Gleaner, failing to note the original attribution. FU! America (a Freudian slip of an acronym if ever there was one) heartily endorses Carter’s Senate run:

It doesn’t sound much like what you typically hear from folks in Washington, DC, and that may very well be the best news of all.

Well, FU! America, it doesn’t sound like you’re going to get the chance to hear it from Carter, either. It seems that Carter is suffering from a severe shortage of name recognition. According to WorldNet Daily,

Plaguing his nascent campaign is a lack of name recognition. According to an October 2005 telephone poll of 625 Nevada residents, commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 61 percent of people said they hadn’t heard of him before – compared with 6 percent for Ensign. The GOP incumbent had the support of 59 percent of the poll’s respondents and Carter had 25 percent. Sixteen percent said they were undecided.

“Nevada was never Carter country back in the 1970s, and I just don’t think Jack Carter has much of a chance, although you never completely dismiss anyone,” said Brad Coker, of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, which conducted the poll. “Absent any fiasco by Ensign, Carter is going to have a tough time.”

To demonstrate just how bad things are, I checked The Truth Laid Bear and Technorati, two of the largest sites on the Internet for tracking who’s blogging what, and could find only five other blogs with any refererence at all to Carter’s run, and only three of those featured it as a separate post.

I wonder how Mr. Carter would feel about this Conservative blog increasing his exposure in the Blogosphere by 33 1/3%?