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Virginian87
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« on: August 15, 2005, 08:35:17 AM »

That's strange.  Never would have expected you to say that.
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Virginian87
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2005, 09:24:42 AM »
Henry Clay
Adlai Stevenson
Robert Kennedy (the only one of the Kennedy brothers whom I actually liked)
Fritz Hollings
Lloyd Bentsen would have been a better candidate than Dukakis in '88 and given Bush a run for his money, but I'm not sure how he would have fared as president.

Tom Dewey would have been a good, if uncharismatic president, but I can't go against Truman.
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Virginian87
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2005, 01:58:48 PM »

He was quite liberal for his time, and I've always pictured you as a Southerner; he was an Irish Catholic New Yorker.  

But I see since you said he was anti-New Deal that had he been elected, FDR would have never been president.  So I see your reason.
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2005, 02:00:43 PM »
Quote from: Cosmo Kramer on August 16, 2005, 01:45:44 PM
from the past....

William Jennings Bryan
Alexander Hamilton
Lloyd Bentsen

Had Bryan been elected, and in which year (since he ran three times)what would have turned out different?  We probably would not have gone to war had he won in 1896, but as for the rest I don't know.
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Virginian87
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2005, 02:37:33 PM »

If he had been president, how would Vietnam have turned out?  Do you think we would have used nukes?
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Virginian87
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2005, 02:50:12 PM »
Quote from: A18 on August 16, 2005, 02:44:19 PM
Quote from: Virginian87 on August 16, 2005, 02:37:33 PM

If he had been president, how would Vietnam have turned out?  Do you think we would have used nukes?

No. That is a lie made up by propagandists on behalf of the lying scumbag (Lyndon Johnson) and his campaign.

Well, would Vietnam have been any more stable under his administration?
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Virginian87
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2005, 09:51:38 PM »
Quote from: Winfield on August 16, 2005, 09:44:20 PM
Charles Evans Hughes, Rep. 1916
He went to bed thinking he was elected.
He woke up the next morning, learned he had lost his lead in California, which swung narrowly to Wilson, giving Wilson the win.

Anyone for Alf Landon, Rep. 1936 or Weldell Wilkie, Rep. 1940?  Not on my favorites list though.

Thomas Dewey would have made a good President.

Nelson Rockefeller, who tried so hard to win the GOP nomination on 3 occasions, would have made a good President.

Hubert Humphrey was a good man, and wanted so badly to be President.  Would have done well in the job.

 



I agree that Rockefeller and Humphrey might have made good presidents.  Though I'm not sure how either would have handled 'Nam.
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