[central_va]

Jefferson

[Nea Wood]

The first and still the best...Washington.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Lincoln is nowhere near being one of the best presidents and people only think of him as such due to propaganda that paints him as some kind of hero when he was really the biggest destructor of liberty ever.

[Vaquero]

I voted for the gipper.....

for no other reason than to skew it for a modern conservative.

[madison10]

Washington
Reagan

[Eye of Unk]

Washington.

[kbennkc]

Ron Paul

[Brilliant]

Since George W. Bush got 2% of the votes I’m going to discount this poll.

[tumblindice]

How `bout a Polk?

[Diogenesis]

[muir_redwoods]

Washington by a very wide margin.

[Navy Patriot]

I'd have to go with Washington, hands down.

Lincoln, about the middle.

FDR would make the short list of worst President.

[quesera]

#1=Washington
#2=Ronald Reagan

[JLAGRAYFOX]

George Washington is number one and Ronald Reagan is number two, rightfully so. Abraham Lincoln should also be right up there with Washington and Reagan. Worst POTUS’s ever, Barack Hussein Obama and Jimmy Carter.

[central_va]

The greatest Presidents understand limited Federal power, what a Free Republic actually means in practice, and realizes that the USA's greatness lies in an unfettered population pursuing private interests.

T. J. Jefferson fits that mold perfectly.

[Arthur McGowan]

I voted for Coolidge, because he understood what the scoundrel Wilson was up to. He cut the top income tax rate to 25%, cut the federal budget in half, cut the federal tax burden in half, and paid off about one third of the national debt. There was a slow deflation, totalling about 2% during his five years in office. He wrote his own speeches, and everyone ought to read at least his speech of July 4, 1926, delivered at Philadelphia, and his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925. In both speeches, he reveals a clear understanding of the evil Progressives.

If Coolidge had run for a second full term, he would have won in a landslide, and the recession of 1930 would have lasted six months, because Coolidge was not a Messianic interventionist like Hoover. But Coolidge would have died in office: He died in Massachusetts in January of 1933.

[Gene Eric]

Washington, hands down.

I cannot imagine any other President taking the risks Washington faithfully, willfully, courageously, and honorably carried out. Of course, most of his defining moments preceded his Presidential seat which makes the argument that much more compelling (or irrelevant depending on how you look at).

[smokingfrog]

1 - Washington
2 - Jefferson
4 - Reagan

Washington, mostly for his character.
Jefferson, for the Louisiana purchase.
Reagan, cause he kicks democrat butt.

[Fiji Hill]

Interestingly, JFK, whom the media have long treated as a martyr and a saint, has as of this message not received a single vote.

[Fiji Hill]

I voted for Coolidge—the last president to see himself as the country’s first magistrate, as defined by the constitution, and not as an elected king.