People who could have been good US presidents.

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Banned
Bobby Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Hubert Humphrey
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
Ted Kennedy
Al Gore
John Kerry
Joe Biden
Thomas Dewrey
Adlai Stevenson II
Bernie Sanders
 
Would have preferred if people had made an argument about one or two underappreciated individuals of merit in this thread, rather than just listing every single person who has ever ran for president.


OK, let me go into detail re one of the alter-
nate Presidents I've listed, Edward Kennedy:

He succeeded, in his time in the Senate, in
getting more bills passed than any other in-
dividual in the history of the U.S. Congress.
This reveals an ability to make & form coali-
tions(especially with people you normally
disagree with), to be able to persuade others
to follow you. This is an essential skill to have in a POTUS, since so much of what a
President does isn't ordering people around
but persuading people- be it a recalcitrant
Senator or the whole U.S. public- to follow,
to agree to a course of action you've laid out. Plus Kennedy's accomplishments showed an ability, I think, to read, judge
people so as to figure out who could best be
of help. Wouldn't that be a useful skill for a
POTUS to have? Finally, all of this wheeling-
&- dealing was for good aims- like achieving
universal health care. EK wasn't trying to
help line the pockets of some rich friends.
 
Fred Thompson - Interesting similarities to Reagan
Edward Brooke - Let's go 180 degrees away from the Republican southern strategy. :)
Bob Dole -State of the Union address spoken in third person!!
Jimmy Stewart - Don't know how effective a politician he would be, but he could have won elections.
 
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Robert Lincoln?

Some people did put him forward for office- & eventually the Presidency- but he was never very interested in politics, preferring
a career as a railroad president. Besides, I
remember reading that, unlike his father,
Robert Lincoln was not a very likeable
fellow.
 

Japhy

Banned
Actually, I didn't. I quoted the member who had been reported and was, IMO, discussing current politics.

If you believe there are other, please report them.
And yet they weren't the one who brought it up. If you're going to look at reports you should surely look at the actual conversation. Otherwise what's the point?
 
Some people did put him forward for office- & eventually the Presidency- but he was never very interested in politics, preferring
a career as a railroad president. Besides, I
remember reading that, unlike his father,
Robert Lincoln was not a very likeable
fellow.

Wasn't he a pretty decent Sec War?
 
Democrats:
Robert Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Gary Hart
Joe Biden
Jerry Brown
Al Gore
Hillary Clinton

Republicans:
Colin Powell
Thomas Dewey
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
John Kasich
Jeb!
 
George McGovern, Colin Powell, Adlai Stevenson and Bernie Sanders to name just a few.

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The follow if they weren't socially liberal on abortion and did not promote homosexuality and SSM but hated discrimination against them)

George McGovern
Hillary Clinton
Geraldine Ferraro
Walter Mondale
Nelson Rockefeller (esp. if he wasn't sexually promiscuous)
Al Gore


Others:

George Wallace (If he hadn't turned racist; note that he did not partake in the 1948 Dixiecrat walkout in the DNC and was pretty moderate on race issues until his "I'll never be out-n******* again*" gubernatorial loss in 1958)

Hubert Humphrey
Scoop Jackson
Robert F. Kennedy


And any GOP candidate who's like Mark Hatfield. So yeah, Mark Hatfield.
 
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