Barry is Dukakis II, but the next president, no matter which, will be remembered as Carter II, just by the nature of the challenges.

Carter was actually a good president in a difficult time; deregulating oil, showing fiscal responsibility, confronting the birth of Islamicism, and cutting off food to the Evil Empire, which hastened its inevitable fall. Also started the military buildup that Reagan took credit for. Used the same zero based budgeting that McCain wants to do. A fiscal conservative. Like McCain, a Naval Academy graduate.