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Question: Who was the greatest Senator of All-Time?
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Ted Kennedy		  
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Henry Clay		  
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Daniel Webster		  
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.		  
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Hubert H. Humphrey		  
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Robert A. Taft		  
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Lyndon B. Johnson		  
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr.		  
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« on: May 20, 2010, 03:23:17 PM »
Henry Clay.
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2010, 03:24:16 PM »
Daniel Webster, perhaps.
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 03:53:49 PM »
Clay.
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2010, 03:54:33 PM »
Taft.
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2010, 03:54:59 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2010, 04:07:44 PM »
In terms of legacy? Clay
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2010, 04:24:53 PM »
Johnson was a great Senator, but there's no need to give him that accolade since he is already our greatest president.

Teddy Kennedy.
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2010, 05:00:51 PM »
Quote from: opebo on May 20, 2010, 04:24:53 PM
Johnson was a great Senator, but there's no need to give him that accolade since he is already our greatest president.

Teddy Kennedy.

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« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2010, 05:24:26 PM »
Henry Clay
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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2010, 05:25:35 PM »
Robert A. Taft.


Lyndon Johnson was the worst.
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« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2010, 06:16:51 PM »
Strom Thurmond
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« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2010, 06:19:46 PM »
Henry Clay, but honorable mention to Webster, Sumner, LBJ, Teddy, Richard Russell, LaFollette Sr., and numerous others.
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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2010, 06:32:14 PM »
     Robert Taft, probably.
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2010, 06:38:23 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2010, 06:44:29 PM »

So what is the source of the attraction?
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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2010, 06:46:07 PM »
Other-Thomas Hart Benton
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2010, 07:55:00 PM »

States' Rights which is what this country was meant to be, a nation of states.
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2010, 01:32:39 AM »
Quote from: Derek on May 20, 2010, 07:55:00 PM

States' Rights which is what this country was meant to be, a nation of states.

Calhoun was a far more eloquent defender of state's rights than Thurmond. There was a time when defending the notion of state's rights was an actual philosophical  battle among politicians, not just as codeword  to keep the n*ggers down. Thurmond wasn't from that era.
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2010, 01:35:07 AM »
« Edited: May 21, 2010, 01:39:48 AM by Randslide! »
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.
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2010, 07:59:52 AM »
Oh yes Barry Goldwater, nvm Thurmond he can take second place for now.
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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2010, 08:23:01 AM »
Quote from: NiK on May 20, 2010, 06:43:07 PM
Henry Clay, obviously.

In most school textbooks, he is generally the main character of the 1820s-1850s era. He was the most influential Senator in our nation's history, and it is a shame that he never became President.




I concurr.
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« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2010, 08:32:01 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2010, 10:03:53 AM »
Clay going away.
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2010, 05:12:27 PM »
anyone else?
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2010, 05:52:10 PM »
John McCain would be my favorite senator lately.
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