Best President, of these three

[Mr. Smith]

I did this for the Democrats, now fair is fair.

I excluded out the three contenders for the worst in Mordecai's threads because they damn well deserve to rest there (especially Reagan and Bush 43) for corruption, voodoo economics, and rigidity rather than reason.

That leaves the moderates. With Eisenhower taking the top by being a moderate with a vision his own,rather than just a moderate. He's the last Republican actually worth voting against a liberal or Democrat for. Only Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover had better,non warmongering foreign policies than him.

Bush 41 pretty much used Reagan's coattails where he could, except with foreign policy, and some domestic issues where Reagan was clearly archaic. And as a person he was an Ivy League brat and pretentious.

Ford was just kind of there, but he did manage to water-down everything after what Nixon did, and most of his stuff was good. Would've voted for him rather than Carter if he hadn't dropped Rockefeller. He was wasted potential truly.

So yeah I go for Eisenhower, Ford, then  Bush 41.


With that fire away.