Well, sort of.

Suffice it to say that Jimmy Carter isn't the favorite President of most conservatives. In fact, he's probably the least favorite of a lot of the nuttier folk on the right. And it's not as if time has lessened conservatives' visceral hatred of the one-time peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia. Just take a look at CensureCarter.com, a website and television ad campaign funded by Move America Forward aimed at getting Congress to... censure Jimmy Carter.

So with the President struggling to connect with his party's conservative base going into November's midterms and Congressional Republicans seemingly unable to come together on an immigration bill, the last person George W. Bush needs running to his side is the 39th President. But as Doug Gross reports for the AP, this is exactly what Jimmy Carter has done.

Former president Carter, a Democrat and frequent critic of President Bush, sees eye-to-eye with him on immigration.

Carter on Wednesday called the Republican president's commitment to immigration reform "quite admirable," saying he agrees with Bush's support of a system that would eventually grant citizenship to some illegals.

[Let me preface the following with a note that I greatly admire Jimmy Carter, certainly do not believe he was a bad President and immensely respect the work he has done since leaving the White House.]

I can already see the ad right now. Perhaps it was paid for by the Constitution Party, perhaps it was sponsored by the Minutemen, perhaps we never find out who put up the money for the spot. Cue stock footage of Jimmy Carter and George Bush shaking hands. (It would be better if they were hugging, but I'm assuming such footage doesn't exist). Snarky sounding announcer throws some of the tired conservative rhetoric at Jimmy Carter before slamming George W. Bush for aligning with Carter on immigration. The ad runs on Fox News and during the 700 Club -- prime viewing time for the nativist base of the GOP -- and more conservative voters end up staying at home on election day than in any other election in recent memory (even more so than in 2000 voters found out just days before the election about George W. Bush's DUIs).

By no means am I encouraging the Pat Buchanans of the world to make an ad like this; rather, I only mean to say that it is not beyond them to do so. After all, as I noted above, they're currently running television ads calling on Congress to censure Jimmy Carter. So just don't be surprised to see George Bush's face blend into Jimmy Carter's while you're watching television in the not too distant future.