Jimmy Carter says he would be comfortable with a Mitt Romney presidency, although he still expects President Barack Obama to win re-election in the fall. Id rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable, the former president told MSNBC in a segment aired Wednesday. I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive
that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the Olympics as you know.
Carter went on to compliment Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, as a good solid family man and so forth. And although he said Romney has taken some extreme right-wing positions in order to win the GOP primary, he suggested that the former Massachusetts governor is likely something of centrist at heart.
What hell do in the general election, what hell do as president I think is different, Carter said.
This is not the first time Carter has praised a Republican presidential hopeful. Last spring, he described former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman as very attractive to me personally.
Huntsman, however, recently said he found those kind words less-than-helpful as he struggled to make inroads with the GOPs conservative base last year.
A guy named Michael Moore who went on television and said That Huntsman guy. Hes a Republican I think I could support to be followed up by Jimmy Carter who said This Huntsman guy: I think hes somebody I could support to be followed up by Bill Clinton, who went on television and said He seems pretty un-hidebound. Hes a Republican I think I could we were so toast in Iowa by then, Huntsman told MSNBCs Morning Joe on Monday.