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Well, Hoover was Coolidge’s Secretary of Commerce, and was in office for 9 months when the stock market crashed; Coolidge had set the policies that basically were in effect - including the budget - while Hoover was in office when it all fell apart. He certainly didn’t help it, but he didn’t set it up...

Additionally, Coolidge had a Republican majority for his entire term in both the Senate and House, something Ronald Reagan never had. During Coolidge’s term, the Democrats made steady gains in the Senate and House; he didn’t keep it together, unlike George Bush who saw actual gains, and Ronald Reagan who saw the Senate switch from Democrat to Republican majority.

Coolidge may have had good ideas, but he was a pretty weak political leader. You have to have actual leadership skills and charisma as well as sound ideas to be an effective political leader; apparently rabscuttle thinks just having a good idea is enough.

Well, Hoover was Coolidge’s Secretary of Commerce, and was in office for 9 months when the stock market crashed; Coolidge had set the policies that basically were in effect - including the budget - while Hoover was in office when it all fell apart.

Are you suggesting that Coolidge was responsible for the crash, i.e., that small-government conservative policies lead to economic disaster?

Well, Hoover was Coolidge’s Secretary of Commerce, and was in office for 9 months when the stock market crashed

And George H. W. Bush was Reagan's VP but he basically flushed Reagan's Tax policies down the toilet(Read my lips No new Taxes)

Coolidge may have had good ideas, but he was a pretty weak political leader.
Different leaders have different styles. “Silent Cal” believed in federalism and didn't just pay lip service to it like some "conservatives" do. And having power just for the sake of having power can be damned dangerous. He lead a nation in prosperous and peaceful times believed in states rights, cut taxes, brought down the national debt(Putting the ”Roar” in the ”Roaring Twenties”)and was wary of foreign entanglements.

Millions of conservatives would love to have a president like this instead of an "activist" like the one we have now.

And Cal didn't believe government had no role in regulating business. No indeed, Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, supported wages and hours legislation, opposed child labor.

As for the Stock Market Crash, it was caused by evil men, like Joe Kennedy Sr, who will always find loopholes in any system devised by men and but the political clout to get away with it. Having government interfere with the free market creates as much bad as it does good. It only clouds the line between the truly successful and scoundrels like Madoff who hide behind a byzantine system of federal regulations. (No bailouts for failed businesses with corrupt business practices)

Coolidge and his GOP’s one great failing was not repealing the 1922 Fordney-McCumber Act.(passed by an GOP congress,signed by President Warren Harding)

During Coolidge’s term, the Democrats made steady gains in the Senate and House; he didn’t keep it together,

And Hoover with his proto interventionism's policies, Smoot- Hawley Tariff Act of June 1930 and latter FDR's as well) took an a bad but "run of the mill" recession and turned it into the Great Depression, giving the Congress and Oval Office to the Democrats for the next twenty something years.

During the 1928 election campaign, Herbert Hoover pledged to help the beleaguered farmer by raising already high tariffs on agricultural products. But once passed other special interest groups like heavy industry wanted to raise tariffs in all sectors of the economy. Foreign governments responded in kind basically cutting trade(and jobs) by some 66% between 1929 and 1934

Big Government GOPers like Hoover and the GOP Congress he supported, are no better than Big Government Democrats.