Greatest Senator of All-time?

[Torie]

anyone else?

I hate to say it, but the worst president of the United States (in my opinion), LBJ.

[Derek]

what exactly is meant by great?

[Phony Moderate]

Eugene McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern, Mike Gravel, and Wayne Morse should all be on the list of choices instead of LBJ and Ted Kennedy.

Barry Goldwater was a warhawk.

[Deldem]

Henry Clay for sure, much as I support Kennedy and love many of his ideas and actions within the Senate. Robert Taft was also very good, though I totally disagree with most everything he believed in.

[Derek]

Ask the girl Ted Kennedy killed while drunk driving if he was the greatest senator of all time. No I'm not regretting this question.

[muon2]

No one has mentioned George Norris of Nebraska. He served 30 years and practically defined maverick Republican during his tenure there and in the 10 years in the House before that. The 20th Amendment and the TVA are two of his lasting achievements. He would have been on JFK's list of the five most important Senators, but for grudges held by some Senators who had served with Norris.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

No one has mentioned George Norris of Nebraska. He served 30 years and practically defined maverick Republican during his tenure there and in the 10 years in the House before that. The 20th Amendment and the TVA are two of his lasting achievements. He would have been on JFK's list of the five most important Senators, but for grudges held by some Senators who had served with Norris.

Norris was another great one.  There have been too many great Senators to list.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Howard H. Baker, Jr.

Andrew Johnson should get an honorable mention as being the only Senator from a state whose legislature engaged in treason against our sacred Union to remain loyal to our country.

[Magic 8-Ball]

Voted Clay, but the entire Triumvirate is up there.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Forgot Mark Hatfield, he was another great one.

[Mechaman]

Eugene McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern, Mike Gravel, and Wayne Morse should all be on the list of choices instead of LBJ and Ted Kennedy.

Barry Goldwater was a warhawk.

He was also pro-choice.......though not to the extent as Mike Gravel (who is "avowedly pro-choice").

[justW353]

Ask the girl Ted Kennedy killed while drunk driving if he was the greatest senator of all time. No I'm not regretting this question.

1).  He most likely wasn't drunk.
2).  Well, she admired him and his brothers greatly, so...she probably would agree.

[yougo1000]

Johnson was a great Senator, but there's no need to give him that accolade since he is already our greatest president.

Teddy Kennedy.

[Derek]

Ask the girl Ted Kennedy killed while drunk driving if he was the greatest senator of all time. No I'm not regretting this question.

1).  He most likely wasn't drunk.
2).  Well, she admired him and his brothers greatly, so...she probably would agree.

right he just drove her into the water whether or not he was drunk has very little impact on the fact of the matter

[Magic 8-Ball]

While Chappaquiddick speaks ill of Kennedy as a man, it has little to do with his tenure in the Senate and the prodigious breadth of legislation he authored/co-sponsered/whatever.

He may not have been 'the greatest' senator of all time, but he was certainly one the most influential ones of the last hundred years.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

While Chappaquiddick speaks ill of Kennedy as a man, it has little to do with his tenure in the Senate and the prodigious breadth of legislation he authored/co-sponsered/whatever.

He may not have been 'the greatest' senator of all time, but he was certainly one the most influential ones of the last hundred years.

Ted Kennedy certainly did work very hard to destroy America every way he could over the years.

Think of the most horrible pieces of legislation that you've seen over the years and there's a good chance Ted Kennedy was involved in them.

[Derek]

While Chappaquiddick speaks ill of Kennedy as a man, it has little to do with his tenure in the Senate and the prodigious breadth of legislation he authored/co-sponsered/whatever.

He may not have been 'the greatest' senator of all time, but he was certainly one the most influential ones of the last hundred years.

only if you're a liberal was he influential

[hawkeye59]

While Chappaquiddick speaks ill of Kennedy as a man, it has little to do with his tenure in the Senate and the prodigious breadth of legislation he authored/co-sponsered/whatever.

He may not have been 'the greatest' senator of all time, but he was certainly one the most influential ones of the last hundred years.

Ted Kennedy certainly did work very hard to destroy America every way he could over the years.

Think of the most horrible pieces of legislation that you've seen over the years and there's a good chance Ted Kennedy was involved in them.

Like the Iraq resolution, which he voted against? Or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Or the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

Ted Kennedy was a godawful person and had godawful politics, but was a diligent legislator whom was adept at that "reach across the aisle" bull.

My vote would probably be for Taft, with Lodge in a close second.

[Free Palestine]

Robert Taft.

[President Mitt]

Out of these:

Robert Taft.

[Magic 8-Ball]

While Chappaquiddick speaks ill of Kennedy as a man, it has little to do with his tenure in the Senate and the prodigious breadth of legislation he authored/co-sponsered/whatever.

He may not have been 'the greatest' senator of all time, but he was certainly one the most influential ones of the last hundred years.

only if you're a liberal was he influential

Yeah, that's not quite what I said.