Truman vs. Eisenhower

[RINO Tom]

Easily Truman.

Eisenhower is somewhat overrated in my view. Especially giving green light for Operation Ajax and his relatively weak response to the civil rights movement. I think Truman was a much better president and rightfully is ranked near the top.

From everything I have read, I have never seen an overly convincing argument that Eisenhower actually was "weak" on civil rights ... I mean, sure, he is a naturally conservative and pragmatic guy and he didn't support things he saw as un-Constitutional, but in instances where he DID feel he had that authority (such as sending troops to intervene in Little Rock), he did so.

[RINO Tom]

Truman. While I consider Eisenhower to be a good President on balance, his stock as President as really fallen for me in recent years. Truman IMHO was also dealt a much tougher hand than Eisenhower was and Truman, despite having more to lose politically, pushed for Civil Rights a hell of a lot harder than Eisenhower did. Ike was also the first President to actively pander to the religious right.

This is a very good point I forgot to consider. God's Own Party (which I read about two years ago) fleshes out Billy Graham's strong support for Eisenhower and how he was the first president actively supported by the religious right (other than Hoover, but Hoover didn't court them - it was mainly out of anti-Catholic bigotry).

You seem to be defining the Religious Right as conservative Evangelical Protestants here.  If so, they cannot be lumped in with Mainline Protestants of the 1920s that voted against Smith.  Evangelicals largely were not politically active before the middle of the Twentieth Century.