President Mitt
Giovanni
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« on: August 04, 2009, 01:49:58 PM » |
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What are your Top Ten Failed Presidential Candidates (Primary and General will work)?
Mine: 1. Jerry Brown, 1976 Surprising, I know, but the 1970's Jerry Brown was actually Fiscally Conservative, and Socially Libertarian, today he's just a Neo-Pelosi (What a shame)
2. Howard Baker, 1980 I still like Ronnie, but Baker probably would have been our best President ever had he won.
3. Henry Clay, 1824, 1832, or 1848, A bastard, but a smart bastard.
4. John Q. Adams, 1828, That damn Andrew Jackson never let Adams get any of his agenda out, which would have helped in the long run.
5. John Bell, 1860, I think this guy could have held off the Civil War. I mean the only philosophy he had was to "compromise".
6. William H. Taft, 1912, TR went off the hook on this one. Taft busted more trusts than Teddy himself, and Wilson is still an asshole.
7. Robert Dole, 1996, I still supported Clinton, but I think Dole would have been a decent President.
8. John McCain, 2000, This was the John McCain who hadn't sold himself out to the Religious Right.
9. Nelson Rockefeller, 1964, 1968, Goldwater brought those bible thumpers into the GOP, Rocky definitely wouldn't have done that.
10. Richard Nixon, 1960, He would have been a third term for Eisenhower, Sounds good to me.
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