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

Jimmy Stewart

1. Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York from 1934-45

2. actor Jimmy Stewart

3. Colin Powell

4. Abigail Adams (if the Constitution would have allowed a woman to run back then)

5. The Governator (if you change the Constitution to allow him to run)

6. Rep. John Lewis (D.-GA), civil rights hero

7. North Carolina governor Jim Hunt

Jimmy Stewart? When would he have run for president?

Also, I agree with Powell, but the Governator would have been terrible. I would rather have Jesse Ventura.
 
1. Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York from 1934-45

2. actor Jimmy Stewart

3. Colin Powell

4. Abigail Adams (if the Constitution would have allowed a woman to run back then)

The constitution was silent on this question, and, one could theoretically argue, still is. Regardless, the necessary change here is not an amendnent per se, but ASBish levels of attitudinal change in society.

5. The Governator (if you change the Constitution to allow him to run)

6. Rep. John Lewis (D.-GA), civil rights hero

7. North Carolina governor Jim Hunt

Early John Lewis or contemporary John Lewis?
 
President Rodham (R-2009-2017) was pretty good, thank GOD she didn't marry that Jazz prodigy Bill Clinton. Her Moderate views revived the Republican Party, and thanks to her, Gay Marriage became more popular with the Republicans.

President Perot (I-1993-1997) was pretty good too. He slowed down the economic growth of the country to prevent the Recession that hit so many other countries.
 
Martin Sheen, for the lulz.

"Martin Sheen" is a stage name, and I don't think he ever changed his name to that legally. If that's the case, you wouldn't have a "Martin Sheen" Presidency, you'd have a "Ramon Estevez" Presidency, at least from a legal standpoint.
 
"Martin Sheen" is a stage name, and I don't think he ever changed his name to that legally. If that's the case, you wouldn't have a "Martin Sheen" Presidency, you'd have a "Ramon Estevez" Presidency, at least from a legal standpoint.

I think he'd get round that by making everyone go 'oooh' whenever he put his jacket on. While they were distracted, he'd rewrite the constitution to allow assumed names.
 

Japhy

Banned
Or just legally change his name.

As for other Greatest Presidents we never had...

In my opinion

Pre-1900: Aaron Burr, William Seward, William T Sherman, and Richard P Bland (Bryan but with actual belief rather then political calculation and religious delusion)

Post-1900: Eugene V Debs, Norman Thomas, Wendell Wilkie, Alton B Parker, Alf Landon, Estes Kefauver, and Colin Powell.
 
Pre-1900: DeWitt Clinton, Henry Clay, Winfield Scott, Horatio Seymour, Samuel Tilden, John Fremont.....Victoria Woodhull :p

1900s: Adlai Stevenson, Champ Clark, Progressive TR, Ralph Lafollette, Golden Boy Hoover (pre-1928 HH), RFK, Colin Powell, Nelson Rockefeller, James Cox, Eleanor Roosevelt

2000s: Howard Dean, Colin Powell
 
Pre 1900: Henry Clay by a large margin. The tragedy is that the two times the Whigs had a lay-down they nominated aged war-heros and the one time Clay had the nomination he would have won if Van Buren had been the D nominee as expected and Texas annexation and expansion had not become the hot topic. Basically Whigs won whenever they could run against Van Buren (D or third party) and lost when the couldn't. Clay was probably our best hope for avoiding the Civil War.
Post 1900: Probably Charles Evans Hughes. Highly competent, well regarded by both Progressive and old-guard Republicans. He would have spared the world Wilson's meddiling moralizing in World affairs, The LON fiasco, Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare, and the Edith Galt Wilson and Warren Harding presidencies. Honorable mention to Nixon in 1960 and McCain in 2000. Both were past their sale dates when they actually won or were nominated.
 
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