Jimmy Carter, pioneer of the religious right

Nearly every tribute to Jimmy Carter is necessarily encumbered with caveats about Carter, the president. While it is true that the "Reagan revolution" provided America with needed jolts of patriotic and economic strength, Carter, our 39th president, consistently exhibited traits that public figures of our own times would do well to model.  

Much about the infamous "Carter years" is rightly remembered with disdain. Those alive during the late 1970s will remember mortgage rates in the teens...