Challenge: Dubya is one of the greatest presidents

In policy terms, there's very little against Nixon. Was he an unethical, sleazy operator who got the proper sentence? Yes. James MacGregor Burns among others. Today, he might not even be a Republican: the US could've had UHC, but Ted Kennedy killed CHIP in the Senate.
 
Soon after his election of 2000, President Bush learns he actually did not win the election. Rather, he finds the recount was rigged, and that the triumvirate of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove who have viewed him as a sock puppet that they can control, were the ones who rigged the election.

Bush is outraged and humiliated that he again has failed to achieve his goal by his own merit. His rage is so great that he immediately has the troika imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for pulling a peaceful coup. The three conspirators are tried, found guilty of fomenting insurrection, sentenced to death, and hanged.. After this rather speedy but fair justice, the twin towers attack occur. This time, with rational advisors, Bush acts appropriately in Afghanistan. The United States, along with Norway, the United Kingdom, and a coalition of the just, remove the Taliban, destroy al Quaeda, and capture Bin Laden.

Bush then admits he was AWOL during Viet Nam, had a drug and drinking problem, resigns from the Presidency, and concedes that Al Gore won. He then writes a series of best selling children books about a goat, and his wife illustrates the book. One of the books wins the Newbury Prize. Having achieved success for once on his own with his literary works, Bush finally feels he achieved something worthwhile on his own. He becomes a beloved figure in America.
 
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Why? In OTL he's prettymuch an aspirant for the worst president in US history...

First of all, this thread is political flamebait and people of the left persuasion have been using it as a whipping boy.

Secondly, you fail twice: once for not recognizing sarcasm, and another time for having the lack of historical perspective to put him in the same category with Buchanan, Harding, etc.
 
They did for Tricky Dick, Your Majesty. ;)
Nixon actually did a lot of good stuff, and effective stuff, and stuff that helped America and the American people. If you have that, history may alleviate you. But history's kind eye does little more than show what good was there all along, and there needs to be somethings good there all along to begin with.
 
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