Posted on 08/10/2018 7:39:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
I'm looking for historical ratings of Presidents from a Conservative source. Most I've read are done by "liberal" political scientists. One example? Jimmy Carter ranked higher than George W. Bush? C'mon, that's preposterous.
We’ve talked before of these pathetic losers “Barney Gumble” Pierce and “Aunt Fancy” Buchanan.
Pierce boo hoo, if you can’t do the job you resign. I wish God had arranged for him to lose rather than kill his son.
And “Buchanan couldn’t have done anything” is a BS fatalistic excuse. Great men with power can reshape the world, go back in time and bust a cap in Julius Caesar before he conquers Gaul and see how different the world might be. Aunt Nancy sat and watched, sipping sherry while the kindling started to smolder. Fatalism is horse crap.
Worst: Easy, every democrat from Tyler (who was a democrat) to Obama (including Andrew Johnson) except for Grover Cleveland are the bottom on the list along with RINO Herbert Hoover (but for the opposite reason libs put him there).
The worst, FDR, Johnson, Carter, Obama.
Strong case for each of them for the prize. I would give it to the gimp, he’s the one who took a blow torch to the constitution in the first place and paved the way for the other pricks, anyone that would vote rat after ‘32 is a damn fool. That witch who grapped Zangara’s arm belongs in hell. That libs rank at or near the top tells you all you need to know. I’d put Carter in 2nd, giving away the Panama Canal was treason. I’d put Dingleberry all the way down at 4th, though not for lack of trying on his part, if he had Pelosi as Speaker for 8 years.......
Buchanan is the worst of the 18th Century. He should have been born about 150 years later so he could have died of AIDS.
BEST in no order
Lincoln, cause saying that pisses off certain rebel sympathizers almost as much as DJT pisses off the pussy hat gang. His biggest mistake, ‘sides not picking a better bodyguard, was replacing his VP with a turd democrat.
Harding (suck it, historians)
Coolidge
REAGAN!!!
Honorable Mention: Polk, a rat who actually kept his campaign promises, although that whole conquering California thing didn’t work out in the long run.
Worst POST-President, Teddy R. for that steaming dump he took in 1912.
Trump is in the top ten already, that’s how badly most Presidents have at best been mediocre or at worst never should have been born.
Great men with power can reshape the world
Line of the day.
I don’t consider Reagan a Conservative. He lobbied for a ban on semi-automatic rifles, signed a bill granting amnesty for millions of illegal alien invaders and appointed Sandra Day O’Conner to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Your list is incorrect. The usurper Obama was not technically a U.S. president as he was NOT a natural born Citizen as required by the Constitution. Maybe he could be considered an “acting president”, but never can actual president.
I think Mrs. Pierce would’ve agreed with you on her husband’s ascendency. She knew something bad was going to happen and it did. I really feel badly for her. You think of all the Presidents (and their wives) who would sell their souls (and probably have) for power. Mrs. Pierce was probably dead last in wanting/craving/pursuing that power. She just wanted a nice quiet life in New Hampshire and watch her little son grow up to adulthood.
As it was, the 1852 election was noted for featuring virtually no difference in policy between the Democrats and the Whigs. Pierce won in a landslide as a result. Gen. Winfield Scott fared poorly (despite being personally anti-slavery, though he had a Cotton Whig VP nominee from NC who would later serve in the Confederate Senate, William Graham), though he did carry my state of TN, which was still Whig-leaning. The Whigs dumped incumbent Millard Fillmore, though it’s doubtful he would’ve fared better than Scott.
Both parties by then were generally forced to balance their party so as not to favor forcefully either side of the slave issue, though with the status quo, it was still de facto pro-slave. The lack of much of a choice in that election (save for the third-party Free Soilers), apparently contributed to an unusually low turnout of voters.
I have a book called “Presidential Also-Rans and Running Mates, 1788-1996” by Leslie H. Southwick. If you get a chance to purchase a used copy, it’s good for your political library. Judge Southwick covers each election and draws conclusions as to whether the losing candidate would’ve necessarily been better or worse than the winner based on their records. He rates Gen. Scott as likely superior to Pierce, though that’s not exactly going out on a limb to make such a conclusion.
For a myriad of reasons, Ronaldus Magnus is and will always be number one for me.
The Don is already in the Hall Of Fame.
Again, James Polk is pretty much THE ONLY good Democrat POTUS.
“..,or at worst never should have been born.”
True. But think about this: As bad as PsOTUS Bush, Bush, etc. were, imagine President Dukakis, Gore and Kerry. E-f’n-gads...
RE Reagan:
I remember one constant emotion while Reagan was in office:
Contentment. Like “Dad’s Home now. Everything will be all right, no matter what.”
Sounds silly, yeah, but... well, there it is.
RE Dubya:
Although he did/said virtually NOTHING while the moslem communist was raping the country, which completely tarnishes him to me, I still have to chuckle when I remember Ed Koch saying “It’s still not safe to vote democrat yet...”
Come to think of it, it’ll NEVER be safe to vote democrat, for a long, long time.
They’re f***ing psychotics.
For me, it’s more like a mother’s kiss.
It was a good time in my life, for sure.
I remember having arguments with people when they’d parrot the media remarks about Reagan.
Loved sparring then... still do. Even more so now.
“It was a good time in my life, for sure.”
Mine too...
Summers in Rangoon. Luge lessons. In the Spingtime, we’d make meat helmets.
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