Best candidate losing party could nominate since 1948

[dudeabides]

It can be anyboy from that time period, they didnt have to declare

1948: Robert Taft    , Probably lose by a hair
1952: Stevenson                , OTL result
1956: LBJ                                ,  LBJ does better in New England, and South but loses
1960: Mark Hatfield          , Does better in debate wins popular vote and wins in a nailbiter
1964: Nelson Rockerfeller        ,  Does better in North East, West, still loses decisivly
1968: Hubert Humprhey   , He did better then any democrat should have done
1972: Edward Muskie              , Does better everywhere but doesnt lose in landslide
1976: Ronald Reagan, Dees better in South, worse in NE but wins in a nailbiter
1980: Ted Kennedy              , does better in NE but loses decisively
1984: Gary Hart                                 , Does better in Midwest but still loses in landslides
1988: Mario Cuomo                 , Does better in NE and California but loses in nailbiter
1992: Jack Kemp            , Loses like George HW Bush but wins Ohio,Georgia, New Jersey
1996: Colin Powell                , Makes it really really close but still loses
2000: Dick Gephardt    ,  Takes our Bush in Missouri and Florida and wins
2004: Joe Liberman                     , Takes bush out in Ohio, and wins the election

2008: John McCain   , Gop should not have won more then 150 electoral votes this year
2012: Chris Christe         , Beats Obama by a nailbiter

1948: Dwight Esienhower for the same reasons he was nominated in 1952
1952: Lyndon Johnson
1956: Lyndon Johnson
1960: Richard Nixon probably did better than any other Republican against JFK
1964: Richard Nixon would have been more aggressive against LBJ than Barry Goldwater
1968: Eugene McCarthy was the anti-war candidate and would have been able to run with that.
1972: Ed Muskie
1976: Ronald Reagan, he would not have had to deal with Watergate
1980: Jerry Brown, he could have run as a D.C. outsider
1984: Gary Hart, he first presented the idea of changing the Democratic Party well before Bill Clinton
1988: Al Gore, he was considered a moderate then and he came from a state that had twice voted for President Reagan
1992: Tom Kean, New Jersey's Former Governor, had broad appeal to independents and was loved by the GOP's moderate wing
1996: Colin Powell, he was always well respected and not a career politician
2000: Joe Lieberman, he could run on Bill Clinton's economic record but not his personal scandals
2004: Wesley Clark, he would have had more credibility on Iraq than John Kerry and he's a decorated veteran and military leader
2008: Rudy Giuliani, his fiscally conservative, yet socially moderate views are in line with a majority of voters
2012: Rudy Giuliani, for the same reasons he was strong in 2008 but he'd have been aggressive in a general election

[Kingpoleon]

1948: John Bricker: He's a charismatic Governor of Ohio who should have won and picked Warren or Dewey as his running-mate. Think Reagan thirty years early. Eisenhower wouldn't take the nomination.
1952: John Sparkman or Alben Barkley: They would have been far better at campaigning and running on continuing Truman's successes.
1956: Adlai Stevenson[1]
1960: Henry Cabot Lodge[2]
1964: George Romney[3]
1968: Eugene McCarthy[4]
1972: Henry Jackson[5]
1976: Ronald Reagan[6]
1980: Jerry Brown[7]
1984: Edmund Muskie[8]
1988: Paul Tsongas[9]
1992: Bob Dole[10]
1996: James Stockdsle/Jack Kemp[11]
2000: Joe Lieberman[12]
2004: Howard Dean[13]
2008: Rudy Guiliani[14]
2012: Jon Huntsman[15]

1: Stevenson was massively popular and rallied the base against EISENHOWER better than anyone could.
2: Lodge had much more foreign policy experience than Nixon and could downplay Kennedy's fear-mongering.
3: Romney was a moderate attractive to both sides.
4: McCarthy has the McCain maverick appeal to independents.
5: Jackson was charismatic and a great campaigner.
6: Reagan would have delivered a massively more popular campaign.
7: Brown also has maverick independent appeal.
8: Muskie can return to Nixon & Carter without being too close to Carter.
9: Tsongas ran a populistic campaign aimed for the general.
10: Dole had more independent support.
11: Perot and Stockdale already had great support from Independents and Democrats while Kemp was a very popular person.
12: Lieberman had huge neoconservative and independent support.
13: Dean rallied the base and independents.
14: Guiliani. How can you vote against someone named Rudy Guiliani?!?!?
15: Hunstman, for obvious reasons.

[Stranger in a strange land]

2008: Rudy Giuliani, his fiscally conservative, yet socially moderate views are in line with a majority of voters
2012: Rudy Giuliani, for the same reasons he was strong in 2008 but he'd have been aggressive in a general election

2008: Rudy Guiliani[14]

14: Guiliani. How can you vote against someone named Rudy Guiliani?!?!?

[Kingpoleon]

2008: Rudy Giuliani, his fiscally conservative, yet socially moderate views are in line with a majority of voters
2012: Rudy Giuliani, for the same reasons he was strong in 2008 but he'd have been aggressive in a general election

2008: Rudy Guiliani[14]

14: Guiliani. How can you vote against someone named Rudy Guiliani?!?!?

Mine was mostly satire, but he might have done a bit better than McCain.

[OSR stands with Israel]

And since the gop  will lose this year let me add

2016: John Kasich

[VPH]

In hindsight, I would have said John Edwards in 2004.

[OSR stands with Israel]

In hindsight, I would have said John Edwards in 2004.

why he got crushed in the debate by cheney .