MITT ROMNEY USES JIMMY CARTER AS CAMPAIGN WEAPON: Why would Obama (and arguably by extension, the Politico) complain, when Obama has – voluntarily — favorably compared himself with Carter? And incidentally, note the “dog whistle” opening in the Politico article:

For President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney is an obvious throwback to another era — a stiff Father Knows Best-type who straps the dog to the station wagon and marries his high-school sweetheart.

The presidential candidate does what to his dog?