Greatest President we never had

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Progressive Teddy, Bryan, and Debs.

[Vermin Supreme]

Mike Gravel and George McGovern. Gene McCarthy also would've got out of Vietnam ASAP.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Charles E Hughes, Thomas Dewey

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hughes is a good one. It's also something of a truism that in 1904 both major candidates were unusually top-notch, so perhaps Parker too from that era, though I'm not terribly familiar with him.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Frank Harris
Jerry Brown

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

John Jay
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Samuel J. Tilden
Alton B. Parker
Henry Cabot Lodge
Charles Evan Hughes
Robert Taft
Arthur Vandenberg
Barry Goldwater

All I got for now. The list gets more partisan as it goes on, obviously.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota's best 1960s Senator.

Lordy, never.  McCarthy was a schmuck compared to Humphrey.

[Brandon H]

Thomas Hendricks , Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Pat Buchanan, and Ron Paul.

[Brittain33]

Pat Buchanan

Oy. Why?

[The Mikado]

Abraham Lincoln's second term.

[Vermin Supreme]

Pat Buchanan

Oy. Why?

He's a Paleo-Libertarian Britain.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Barry Goldwater or Ron Paul.

[Zioneer]

Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette
Mo Udall
Jerry Brown
Russ Feingold (we could still possibly have him as president, but it's rather unlikely)
Huey Long (because to be honest, everybody fearing a dictatoral Long is forgetting that he wouldn't be able to wield an iron fist against the entire national Congress)
Edmund Muskie seemed like a decent fellow
Al Gore, I guess. He wouldn't have done the Bush Tax Cuts or Iraq.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

What about HHH? Or Mondale?

[Lief 🗽]

The world would be much better off if Al Gore had won in 2000, I think that's nearly an objective truth.

[Napoleon]

A long list, with the best of the best bolded

Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
William Jennings Bryan
Charles Hughes
Eugene Debs
Robert LaFollette Sr.
Richard B. Russell
Adlai Stevenson
Hubert Humphrey
Scoop Jackson
George McGovern
Frank Church
Al Gore
Joe Lieberman

Lieberman? He should get his face eaten off. You think he would make a great President? Oh my.

[Maxwell]

Ron Paul, Barry Goldwater, and more Calvin Coolidge.

George McGovern and (lolwhynot) Gary Hart, as alternatives to awful presidents.

[opebo]

Al Gore, with hindsight.

Imagine - we might not now be in a depression.

[Torie]

On the list, Clay and Hughes. Not on the list: Alan Simpson of course!

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Al Gore, with hindsight.

Imagine - we might not now be in a depression.

We would have been very depressed had Gore been elected, friend

[Dereich]

What's with everyone thinking things would be better if Gore was elected? There probably wouldn't have been a democratic congress at any time in his term in office and I can't really think of much he would have done different. We'd still probably be in Afghanistan, and if Clinton was willing to fight in Serbia and bomb Iraq I don't see why Gore would be different.

Anyway, on topic I think that while he might not have been a good president Alexander Hamilton would have been a great one.

[opebo]

Imagine - we might not now be in a depression.

We would have been very depressed had Gore been elected, friend

Perhaps, in your ignorance, but you would have had a lot more money.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A long list, with the best of the best bolded

Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
William Jennings Bryan
Charles Hughes
Eugene Debs
Robert LaFollette Sr.
Richard B. Russell
Adlai Stevenson
Hubert Humphrey
Scoop Jackson
George McGovern
Frank Church
Al Gore
Joe Lieberman

Lieberman? He should get his face eaten off. You think he would make a great President? Oh my.

The fact that he's including McGovern (and Church) along with Scoop Jackson and Lieberman just adds to the amusement and the absurdity.

[Peter the Lefty]

I don't think Ralph Nadar is among them, but I'm a bit surprised he hasn't been mentioned.  I'd also put Bernie Sanders there since it's clear he'll never run.  I would also be tempted to put Kucinich as one were it not for his recently-revealed contacts with the Gaddafi regime. 

[Brittain33]

What's with everyone thinking things would be better if Gore was elected? There probably wouldn't have been a democratic congress at any time in his term in office and I can't really think of much he would have done different. We'd still probably be in Afghanistan, and if Clinton was willing to fight in Serbia and bomb Iraq I don't see why Gore would be different.

Anyway, on topic I think that while he might not have been a good president Alexander Hamilton would have been a great one.

We'd probably have gone into Afghanistan, but debt would be a lot lower because of no tax cuts and we surely would NEVER have invaded Iraq.