Who was the best of recent failed Republican presidential nominees?

[Blue3]

Who was the best of recent failed Republican presidential nominees?

These 5 are the only Republican presidential nominees since World War II who were never President.

[Vega]

Thomas Dewey. He was a good Governor, and would have been a decent President.

[Lambsbread]

Preferably NOTA, but I guess Dewey. The others are all unbearable in their own spectrum.

[Phony Moderate]

Preferably NOTA, but I guess Dewey. The others are all unbearable in their own spectrum.

Didn't you support the Romney creature in 2012?

Anyway, Dewey is better than the others monstrosities.

[ElectionsGuy]

1. Goldwater




2. Mitt Romney
3. Bob Dole

4. Thomas Dewey



5. John McCain

[Lambsbread]

Preferably NOTA, but I guess Dewey. The others are all unbearable in their own spectrum.

Didn't you support the Romney creature in 2012?

Yes, shockingly some people change their minds sometimes :/

[IceSpear]

Preferably NOTA, but I guess Dewey. The others are all unbearable in their own spectrum.

Didn't you support the Romney creature in 2012?

Yes, shockingly some people change their minds sometimes :/

I'm guessing your ideology changed in the past 2 years then? It's hard to imagine someone with that PM score supporting Romney.

[Maxwell]

Goldwater by about five miles.

[TDAS04]

Dewey I guess. 

[politicus]

Dewey by a country mile.

[Indy Texas]

Dewey.

If Ford had been on this list (he was never elected president), he'd easily be the best.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Preferably NOTA, but I guess Dewey. The others are all unbearable in their own spectrum.

Didn't you support the Romney creature in 2012?

Yes, shockingly some people change their minds sometimes :/

I'm guessing your ideology changed in the past 2 years then? It's hard to imagine someone with that PM score supporting Romney.

Believe me dude, you've no idea.

[Lambsbread]

I'm guessing your ideology changed in the past 2 years then? It's hard to imagine someone with that PM score supporting Romney.

So basically here's how it went

2012 primaries -> RAWN PAWL
2012 general -> Well, no use in supporting Johnson. Better go with Romney. lol.
Post-2012 general -> Everything I've ever thought is wrong. Reading lots of Marx/starting to tap into social justice warrior in me/starts hating capitalism a lot
2012-2014 -> progressively becoming more and more socialistic/communistic
today -> super hardcore socialist/communist. yolo, right?

[H. Ross Peron]

[1] Dewey
[2] Dole
[3] McCain
[4] Goldwater
[5] Romney

[IceSpear]

I'm guessing your ideology changed in the past 2 years then? It's hard to imagine someone with that PM score supporting Romney.

So basically here's how it went

2012 primaries -> RAWN PAWL
2012 general -> Well, no use in supporting Johnson. Better go with Romney. lol.
Post-2012 general -> Everything I've ever thought is wrong. Reading lots of Marx/starting to tap into social justice warrior in me/starts hating capitalism a lot
2012-2014 -> progressively becoming more and more socialistic/communistic
today -> super hardcore socialist/communist. yolo, right?

Jeez, between you and Snowstalker, it must be something in the water here.

[Never]

Dewey I guess. 

[tmthforu94]

Obviously Romney, followed closely by Dole.

[GaussLaw]

Romney and Dewey easily

[The Dowager Mod]

Deweys moustache.

[Sol]

I'm guessing your ideology changed in the past 2 years then? It's hard to imagine someone with that PM score supporting Romney.

So basically here's how it went

2012 primaries -> RAWN PAWL
2012 general -> Well, no use in supporting Johnson. Better go with Romney. lol.
Post-2012 general -> Everything I've ever thought is wrong. Reading lots of Marx/starting to tap into social justice warrior in me/starts hating capitalism a lot
2012-2014 -> progressively becoming more and more socialistic/communistic
today -> super hardcore socialist/communist. yolo, right?

Jeez, between you and Snowstalker, it must be something in the water here.

Snowstalker was never really a rigth-winger though. Except Cogendism...

[politicallefty]

[1] Dewey
[2] Dole
[3] McCain
[4] Goldwater
[5] Romney

That's exactly how I feel as well, though I'd place Dewey far ahead of the rest. I don't think he'd be anywhere near as good as Truman, but I don't think Dewey would have been a bad President. Depending on the composition of Congress, he could've made a better POTUS than Eisenhower.

[SPC]

Goldwater



Dole

Romney
Dewey




McCain

[Mister Mets]

I legitimately believe that McCain is the best presidential candidate of either major party since Eisenhower. He had the ideal philosophy (a Republican who sometimes disagreed with the party) and a decent understanding of Washington.

I don't know if Goldwater would have been able to govern, but the rest would likely have been solid Presidents.

[Yank2133]

I legitimately believe that McCain is the best presidential candidate of either major party since Eisenhower. He had the ideal philosophy (a Republican who sometimes disagreed with the party) and a decent understanding of Washington.

I don't know if Goldwater would have been able to govern, but the rest would likely have been solid Presidents.

Hah!

[HagridOfTheDeep]

The way they're listed in the poll is actually the order I'd put them in myself.

Romney
McCain
Dole
Goldwater
Dewey

But I admit I know very little about Dewey. Some people on here like to go back and track elections and politics from before the advent of modern pop culture, but that doesn't interest me too much. I guess I just don't find politics from before ca. 1950 easy to relate with.