[SoConPubbie]

Actually, I made a mistake, that was the list of Senators who became President, some of which also were Governors.

However, John Quincy Adams was NOT a Governor before he became President and as President he did the following:

As president he sought to modernize the American economy and promote education. Adams enacted a part of his agenda and paid off much of the national debt.[7] However he was stymied time and again by a Congress controlled by his enemies, and his lack of patronage networks helped politicians eager to undercut him. He lost his 1828 bid for re-election to Andrew Jackson.

Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values. More recently, he has been portrayed as the exemplar and moral leader in an era of modernization. During Adams' lifetime, technological innovations and new means of communication spread messages of religious revival, social reform, and party politics. Goods, money, and people traveled more rapidly and efficiently than ever before.[8]

You were blubbering something about Senators don't make good presidential candidates?

Man enough to retract that crap?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

You were blubbering something about Senators don't make good presidential candidates? Man enough to retract that crap?

Harrison, Kennedy, and Obama are the only senators elected to the presidency of the fifty who have tried. The rest of your list were former senators when they became president. That means that 47 senators have run for president and failed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303783.html).

If Ted Cruz decides to leave the Senate and get some actual executive experience you may someday be able to add him to your list of presidents who had at one time been senators. Until then his odds of winning are 6%. So no, senators don’t make good presidential candidates. You should take your own advice to “man up” and retract your own flawed argument.