Greatest President that Never Was

[Blair]

All the way with RFK

[H. Ross Peron]

cc Henry Clay
cc-NYCharles E Hughes
S-NY RFK
S-Ma Edward Kennedy
S-Ca Jerry Brown
P-Va John Warner

cc- moderate GOP
S-secular
P- populist
T- conservative

This makes no sense.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

RHenry Clay
R-NYCharles E Hughes
D-NY RFK
D-Ma Edward Kennedy
D-Ca Jerry Brown
D-Va John Warner

[Clark Kent]

Fremont and Goldwater

[Enduro]

Ron Paul

[Bismarck]

Barry Goldwater for sure. Henry Clay as well.

[King]

Joe Biden 2017-2025 RIP.

[RI]

RFK and Bryan are solid choices, but no one's said Alexander Hamilton yet?

[Sumner 1868]

RFK and Bryan are solid choices, but no one's said Alexander Hamilton yet?

Hamilton by 1798 wanted the equivalent of a military dictatorship, so...

[Rockefeller GOP]

RFK and Bryan are solid choices, but no one's said Alexander Hamilton yet?

Hamilton by 1798 wanted the equivalent of a military dictatorship, so...

Hamilton by all accounts was one of the most intelligent statesmen in US history, and I've often heard the theory floated by biographers (which I have no trouble buying into) that Hamilton put forth more extreme versions of his ideas in an effort to shift the "consensus" closer to him and further from Jefferson.

[RI]

RFK and Bryan are solid choices, but no one's said Alexander Hamilton yet?

Hamilton by 1798 wanted the equivalent of a military dictatorship, so...

So? The US was on the brink of war with France. Regardless, Hamilton always wanted a more robust government than the other founders. He would've likely been either a great, transformational figure as President or a scathingly unpopular failure. That potential alone should put him squarely in this discussion.

[Sumner 1868]

RFK and Bryan are solid choices, but no one's said Alexander Hamilton yet?

Hamilton by 1798 wanted the equivalent of a military dictatorship, so...

So? The US was on the brink of war with France. Regardless, Hamilton always wanted a more robust government than the other founders. He would've likely been either a great, transformational figure as President or a scathingly unpopular failure. That potential alone should put him squarely in this discussion.

There's also the third option that he really would have declared martial law in the Jeffersonian states, invaded Spanish Florida and Louisiana (rand Mexico if that went well), and declare war on France. I don't see how these actions would not lead to either civil war or foreign recolonization.

[SATW]

Henry Clay
Barry Goldwater
Jack Kemp
Scoop Jackson
Joe Lieberman
RFK
Mitt Romney

[Young Conservative]

Mitt Romney deserves to be on the list.

[Comrade Funk]

Huey Long, Henry Ford, Ron Paul.

This could spell badly for the Allies...

Bobby Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, William Seward, Jerry Brown

[Reaganfan]

Mitt Romney. No Obama second term, possibly no ISIS, Keystone Pipeline, less racial division, and no Trump.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Mitt Romney. No Obama second term, possibly no ISIS, Keystone Pipeline, less racial division, and no Trump.

lol. It still astounds me how dense you are.

[Clark Kent]

Henry Clay
Barry Goldwater
Jack Kemp
Scoop Jackson
Joe Lieberman
RFK
Mitt Romney

Right, I knew I was forgetting someone. Kemp would've been great.


I left off Romney because there's still a chance (however small it is).

[Blair]

Please Romney is a Kerry type figure-wouldn't of been an awful president but would have been extremely average.

The idea that Romney would stop ISIS is well just wrong-the agreement the states signed in 2008 (under Bush) meant that we couldn't IIRC put ground troops back in Iraq until 2013, and even then the problem wasn't a lack of US force-the problem was that the Iraqi army folded

[Hillary pays minimum wage]

What about Lyndon LaRouche?

[Cassius]

Spiro Agnew, John Connally and Bob Dole amongst others.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Spiro Agnew, John Connally and Bob Dole amongst others.

Connally!? The man who advised Nixon to approve of wage and price controls!? The man who let President Kennedy die by failing to protect his commander-in-chief and former boss!?

[Suburbia]

Sam Nunn, Jim Webb, Dave McCurdy (probably should have won the Oklahoma Senate election in 1994, may have been a tougher challenger to Gore in '00 than Bradley was)

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-10-19/news/9110191116_1_dave-mccurdy-tom-harkin-oklahoma-democrat

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/05/us/1994-campaign-oklahoma-s-senate-race-both-candidates-are-running-against-clinton.html?pagewanted=all

http://articles.philly.com/1991-04-04/news/25778003_1_buffalo-chips-democratic-leadership-council-war-plans

[Oldiesfreak1854]

-Rufus King
-Charles Francis Adams
-James Birney
-John Hale
-Charles Evans Hughes
-Alf Landon
-Wendell Willkie
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Nelson Rockefeller
-Bill Scranton
-George Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Mark Hatfield
-Tom McCall
-Chuck Percy
-Malcolm Wilson
-John Anderson
-Howard Baker
-Jack Kemp (Perhaps the greatest of all)
-Pete DuPont
-Bob Dole
-Jim Edgar
-Pete Wilson
-Dick Lugar
-Bill Weld
-Tommy Thompson
-John McCain
-Mitt Romney

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Modified

GOP moderates

DANIEL WEBSTER
Henry Clay
William Seward
Charles Hughes
 
Dems
RFK
Teddy Kennedy
Jerry Brown
Mark Warner