Best losing Presidential candidate?

Well Reagan would be butterflied, but the GOP will still become more conservative. The Dems are still in the depths of their post-'68 civil war. If you'd kept on nominating New Dealers and ultras, we'd have kept on winning as per OTL. (bows to Nixon, Rove) The rule goes like this: The Democrats need a Blue Dog Southerner in the Clinton mold to win. The problem: Southern Presidencies crash, burn, or fizzle. Wilson, LBJ, Clinton (Lewinsky) and Bush Jr.
 
Well Reagan would be butterflied, but the GOP will still become more conservative. The Dems are still in the depths of their post-'68 civil war. If you'd kept on nominating New Dealers and ultras, we'd have kept on winning as per OTL. (bows to Nixon, Rove) The rule goes like this: The Democrats need a Blue Dog Southerner in the Clinton mold to win. The problem: Southern Presidencies crash, burn, or fizzle. Wilson, LBJ, Clinton (Lewinsky) and Bush Jr.

I don't know if I agree on Clinton- he remained hugely popular throughout the Lewinsky scandal, and if he could have run again in 2000 he'd have won in a landslide.
 
Well Reagan would be butterflied, but the GOP will still become more conservative. The Dems are still in the depths of their post-'68 civil war. If you'd kept on nominating New Dealers and ultras, we'd have kept on winning as per OTL. (bows to Nixon, Rove) The rule goes like this: The Democrats need a Blue Dog Southerner in the Clinton mold to win. The problem: Southern Presidencies crash, burn, or fizzle. Wilson, LBJ, Clinton (Lewinsky) and Bush Jr.

1st, Wilson was not a Southerner. [edit: my error - he was.] 2nd, you forgot Carter.

I don't know if I agree on Clinton- he remained hugely popular throughout the Lewinsky scandal, and if he could have run again in 2000 he'd have won in a landslide.

He quite likely would have won a 3rd term in 2000.
 
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1st, Wilson was not a Southerner. 2nd, you forgot Carter..

Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856, spent the majority of his childhood, up to age 14, in Augusta, Georgia, During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital, from 1870-1874.

so in what way is Wilson not a southerner?:confused:
 
My usuall rebuttal to the Nixon-haters: "You break into one stupid hotel and your entire Presidency gets ruined" So, I have to say I'm with the General on that one. As to the topic at hand, I think I sympathize with Tom Dewey, I mean he ran like 2 or 3 times didnt he? Though I am unsure what his politics were I'm sure he couldnt be too bad.

You have a standard 'rebuttal' about Watergate but you don't even know that Nixon was forced to resign because of evidence of a cover up, not because of the burglary itself?

Nice reference to knowing bugger all about Dewey. (Aplogies if you're just being a parody n00b.)
 
Allowing a blatantly criminal President to stay in office would really make a mockery of everything the United States supposedly stands for.

I am no Nixon fan, but I wouldn't consider Nixon blatantly criminal. When he helped with the cover-up, he thought his authority was so great and the infraction so small that he was above the law. It would be naive to believe previous presidents had not bent the law in some similar manner. Had Nixon not kept tape recordings, the evidence would have been lost forever. But technology had produced a level of accountability not yet tested and not expected.

Now Spiro Agnew is a different story. Tax fraud is blatantly criminal.
 
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