POLL TO FREEP: Who is your favorite American President?

Greeley Tribune ^ | 02/18/2012

[NorCoGOP]

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Shockingly, neither Carter nor the present occupant of the White House are choices...

[NorCoGOP]

Reagan leading Clinton by double votes, but, come on...is that the best we can do, Freepers?

[reagan_fanatic]

It makes me shudder just seeing Clinton’s name next to Reagan’s. Bleeech.

[fwdude]

Warren G. Harding (kidding!)

[DoughtyOne]

Done. Thanks.

[SandRat]

As of Now

Ronald Reagan 36.40% (162)

Bill Clinton 13.48% (60)

Abraham Lincoln 13.03% (58)

John F. Kennedy 11.24% (50)

George Washington 8.09%(36)

Theodore Roosevelt 5.39%(24)

Thomas Jefferson 4.04%(18)

Franklin Roosevelt 3.82%(17)

Harry S. Truman 3.60%(16)

Woodrow Wilson 0.90%(4)

445 votes

[re_nortex]

Reagan leading Clinton by double votes, but, come on...is that the best we can do, Freepers?

I did my part and cast a vote for President Ronald Reagan. Had they offered a chance to vote for my second favorite, it would have been for Calvin Coolidge, rightly admired by President Reagan.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Actually Harding is a fine choice given the steps he took to guide us through the serious post WW-I depression of 1920.

[cripplecreek]

I went with Reagan because Calvin Coolidge wasn’t on the list.

[KarlInOhio]

Where's Coolidge? I want a president who can cut spending, cut taxes and cut the debt by a quarter.

[KarlInOhio]

Good to see more people who want to keep cool with Coolidge.

[re_nortex]

Where's Coolidge? I want a president who can cut spending, cut taxes and cut the debt by a quarter.

Amen, FRiend!

And these words from Calvin Coolidge in a December 1923 address to Congress only add to his already impressive Conservative credentials:

“American institutions rest solely on good citizenship. They were created by people who had a background of self-government. New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this purpose it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. It would be well to make such immigration of a selective nature with some inspection at the source, and based either on a prior census or upon the record of naturalization."

"Either method would insure the admission of those with the largest capacity and best intention of becoming citizens. Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.”

[cripplecreek]

Silent Cal is my ideal presidential model.

He did as little as possible.

[dynachrome]

Reagan in the lead, keep it going!

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[re_nortex]

That “KEEP COOL” graphic for President Coolidge is superb! Consider it stolen. :-)

[SmithL]

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Poll

Who is your favorite U.S. President?

Ronald Reagan		44.25% (258)
George Washington		11.15% (65)
Abraham Lincoln		10.63% (62)
Bill Clinton		10.46% (61)
John F. Kennedy		8.58% (50)
Theodore Roosevelt		4.29% (25)
Thomas Jefferson		3.95% (23)
Franklin Roosevelt		3.09% (18)
Harry S. Truman		2.92% (17)
Woodrow Wilson		0.69% (4)
583 votes

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George Washington 11.36%

[lentulusgracchus]

Warren G. Harding (kidding!)

Well, everyone likes Ronnie, but I think Dick Nixon might have actually done us more good, considering that the Real Enemy is the Enemedia and the Left.

Dick Nixon took the Camelot intellectuals' (Arthur Schlesinger and all those fairy bow-tie professors') fancied-up, many-powerer'd, Argus-eyed, omnicompetent Imperial Presidency and crammed it sideways right up their *ss.

Best way to teach someone his failings, is make him eat his own cooking.

He also lured the Communist Fairy Media out in the open, enraging them and causing them to show their hand. It cost Nixon his Presidency, but it also took a lot away from 'Rat presidents like Slick Willie.

Ronnie riled 'em, but Tricky Dick bent 'em and screwed them up for the next 40 years. The fact that the dinosaur media are going away now, has a lot to do with Watergate and the open partisanship of the LieStreamMedia, which Richard Nixon brought out into the open.

[Pharmboy]

No Polk? No Coolidge?

[NorCoGOP]

Now quadrupling the stainer-of-the-blue-dress.

Way to go!

[gorush]

Warren wasn’t as bad as you might think. He was naive in his cabinet appointments and it was they who were responsible for Teapot Dome and others. There was a lot of corruption going around at that time but it doesn’t appear that Harding was involved.