[Jim Noble]

I agree with this completely.

3 sitting US senators have been elected President, all were incompetent or worse. Being a chief executive and being a bullish*t artist are different skill sets.

Even losing Presidential candidates sitting in the Senate have been poor - McGovern, Dole, Kerry, McCain.

A governor or a flag officer would be a much better choice than Senator Anybody.

[JRandomFreeper]

Clinton was a governor. So was Carter. Both were bad presidents, aside from their flaming liberalism.

Governorship is pretty meaningless.

/johnny

[C. Edmund Wright]

you need to try Cruz control.

[virgil]

I would rather have a governor.

[Monorprise]

Your absolute right im glad someone here has done the same research I have. No senator has ever made a good president. Something about the skill set and experience always makes them poor at the job.

[Verginius Rufus]

Stephen Douglas was Senator from Illinois when he was defeated in the 1860 Presidential election (nominee of the Northern Democrats). He came in second in the popular vote (just barely) in a four-way race, but came in fourth in electoral votes. William Howard Taft didn’t manage to do that in 1912.

[SoConPubbie]

3 sitting US senators have been elected President, all were incompetent or worse. Being a chief executive and being a bullish*t artist are different skill sets.

Seems you are unnecessarily using a very biased filter to make your point.

To date, sixteen senators have also served as president of the United States. Three senators, Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama moved directly from the U.S. Senate to the White House.  

(Photo: Warren G. Harding. Senate Historical Office)

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James Monroe

Senator, 1790-1794

President, 1817-1825

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John Quincy Adams

Senator, 1803-1808

President, 1825-1829

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Andrew Jackson

Senator, 1797-1798; 1823-1825

President, 1829-1837

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Martin Van Buren

Senator, 1821-1828

President, 1837-1841

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William Henry Harrison

Senator, 1825-1828

President, 1841

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John Tyler

Senator, 1827-1836

President, 1841-1845

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Franklin Pierce

Senator, 1837-1842

President, 1853-1857

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James Buchanan

Senator, 1834-1845

President, 1857-1861

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Andrew Johnson

Senator, 1857-1862; 1875

President, 1865-1869

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Benjamin Harrison

Senator, 1881-1887

President, 1889-1893

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Warren G. Harding

Senator, 1915-1921

President, 1921-1923

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Harry S. Truman

Senator, 1935-1945

President, 1945-1953

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John F. Kennedy

Senator, 1953-1960

President, 1961-1963

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Senator, 1949-1961

President, 1963-1969

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Richard M. Nixon

Senator, 1950-1953

President, 1969-1974

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Barack Obama

Senator, 2005-2008

President, 2009- present

[NorthMountain]

A governor or a flag officer

At this point, I think I'd prefer a Master Chief or Sergeant Major to a flag officer ...