Who Really Was "The Greatest President We Never Had?"

McCain is my preference on the GOP side as well. I see we like our Greatest Presidents Who Never Were to be living definitions of "mercurial" in temperament. :p
 
Since I am reading The Last Campaign, it may be safe for me to say Bobby Kennedy would have been an effective president during the Cold War Era.
 
What criteria are we using to determine "greatest?"

I don't know exactly. We all know William Howard Taft was our greatest President, but I can't think of anyone greater than Taft who had a chance at the Presidency. Probably David Davis. He would've been a great President, given that he was well over 300 pounds.
 
GSM: No, it was McCain/Brownback.
Zach: great book, isn't it? Another good one is Jules Witcover's 85 Days, which I own and was written in 1969, so you have a contemporary perspective. Witcover was one of the few reporters who covered both RFK and Nixon, so you can see a few things that interest us Sixtologists. ;)
 
Of this decade, and at risk of being a bit controversial, John S. McCain III. The downside of that is VPOTUS Sarah Palin.

Unless you have hime get elected in 2000 instead. I don't even know what Sarah Palin was doing in those days.
 
I've been to the David Davis mansion and I didn't think about it at the time but his door frames seem larger than the average, for the day at least.

McCain in 2000, Al Gore in 88, Bush in 80, RFK in any, Humphrey, Stevenson, Charles Evans Hughes (so close), William McAdoo, John Fremont, Henry Clay to name a few
 
Unless you have hime get elected in 2000 instead. I don't even know what Sarah Palin was doing in those days.

That's very true. Though I think it would be interesting to think about him as an alternative to the current incumbent.
A while back I did suggest a McCain/Rice ticket as a possible alternative to McCain/Palin. In terms of experience IMVHO that would be a good combination, however I think it would still suffer from links to WBush's administration.
Rice may have given Biden a good run for his money in any VP debates, especially since Biden has a habit of putting his foot in it. Some of them are almost worthy of ex-VP Dan Quale. :D
 
That's very true. Though I think it would be interesting to think about him as an alternative to the current incumbent.
A while back I did suggest a McCain/Rice ticket as a possible alternative to McCain/Palin. In terms of experience IMVHO that would be a good combination, however I think it would still suffer from links to WBush's administration.
Rice may have given Biden a good run for his money in any VP debates, especially since Biden has a habit of putting his foot in it. Some of them are almost worthy of ex-VP Dan Quale. :D

Well, I do like Condi Rice, but I recall reading somewhere that she is "Pro-Choice" and I think it is a rule that everyone on the Republican Presidential ticket must be "Pro-Life." *

*Although I should say, I prefer to use the terms "Pro-Abortion" or "Anti- Abortion", but I don't want to start a flame war over Abortion.
 
Patricia Schroeder would have been interesting. It would be intersting to have a military that did not get all the expensive toys they wanted

I so wanted Pat Schroeder to run in 1992. I am confident she would have won.
Of course there is RFK. Adlai Stevenson and of course Paul V McNutt.
 
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