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« on: January 15, 2018, 10:59:27 PM »
Who is the best President that wasn't elected?
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Who is the best President that could have been?

Think of dropped out or conceded candidates from 1964-2016 that could have made great presidents.
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2018, 11:09:27 PM »
John C Fremont

William Jennings Bryan

Robert La Follette

Al Smith

Thomas Dewey

Wendell Wilkie

Hubert Humphrey

Gerald Ford

John B. Anderson

Al Gore

John Kasich

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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2018, 11:11:44 PM »
IMO:

Bob Dole

Mitt Romney

John Kasich

Marco Rubio (Maybe not for long, hmmm...?)
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2018, 11:29:39 PM »
William Jennings Bryan
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2018, 11:32:20 PM »
Yes!!!
He's still my second favorite failed Presidential candidate of all time. I wish the modern Democratic Party was more like Bryan was.
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2018, 11:43:46 PM »
Scott Walker. What a disappointment.
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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2018, 11:46:53 PM »
Lindsey Graham, 2016
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« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2018, 12:07:14 AM »
TR under the Progressive Party, Robert La Follette, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, and Morris Udall all could have been great presidents.
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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2018, 12:08:26 AM »
RFK.
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« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2018, 12:18:29 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2018, 12:22:51 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2018, 02:00:55 AM »
William Jennings Bryan

Teddy Roosevelt (1912)

Robert La Follette

Huey Long
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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2018, 02:28:48 AM »
Probably Nelson Rockefeller or Paul Tsongas.
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« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2018, 10:28:53 AM »
« Edited: January 17, 2018, 02:03:05 AM by JFK »
RFK

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Al Gore

Nelson Rockefeller
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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2018, 10:46:19 AM »
Al Gore, one of my political heroes. I deeply admire this dude and wish he'd run again in 2020. Other names come to my mind are Robert Kennedy and Frank Church. GOPers: Wendell Willkie, Earl Warren, Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney.
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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2018, 03:42:35 PM »
Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 would have been an absolute. He would've gotten us into the useless quagmire that was World War I from day one, with a crackdown on civil liberties and a xenophobic panic that would have made Wilson's administration look like a libertarian paradise.

To add a name of my own: we would have been substantially better off if Lincoln kept Hamlin on for a second term. George Clinton and DeWitt Clinton also come to mind. Henry Clay and George McGovern would have been mediocre presidents, putting them miles ahead of the men they lost to.
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2018, 03:55:04 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2018, 08:56:41 PM »
Since 1964, in chronological order.

Nelson Rockefeller
George Romney
Bob Dole
John Anderson
Jack Kemp
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
John Kasich
George Pataki
Chris Christie
Lindsey Graham
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« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2018, 12:47:38 AM »
since 1960:

-Frank Church
-Ross Perot
-Bernie Sanders
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« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2018, 01:04:59 AM »
Bobby Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Alexander Hamilton, Al Gore, Earl Warren, Henry Clay, (if JFK had lived), (if Lincoln had lived), (Nixon w/o Watergate), (LBJ w/o Vietnam), Hillary Clinton ('08), Mario Cuomo.
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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2018, 02:04:59 AM »
Quote from: megameow on January 17, 2018, 01:04:59 AM
Bobby Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Alexander Hamilton, Al Gore, Earl Warren, Henry Clay, (if JFK had lived), (if Lincoln had lived), (Nixon w/o Watergate), (LBJ w/o Vietnam), Hillary Clinton ('08), Mario Cuomo.

Lol the guy who wanted America become an empire (and, IIRC, invade Canada and Mexico for starters) and hated democracy?

I like the musical tho
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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2018, 03:27:59 AM »
« Edited: January 17, 2018, 03:30:20 AM by HillGoose »
Here's my full list of people who would have been great and actually ran a real campaign:

Hugh Lawson White, 1836
John Bell, 1860
Alf Landon, 1936
Thomas Dewey, 1944, 1948
George Romney, 1968
Nelson Rockefeller, 1968
Bob Dole, 1980, 1996
Lamar Alexander, 1996
John McCain, 2000, 2008
Fred Thompson, 2008
Mitt Romney, 2012
Lindsey Graham, 2016
Marco Rubio, 2016
Jeb Bush, 2016

People I would have liked to see as President but as far as I'm aware, never ran:

Cordell Hull
Curtis LeMay
Howard Baker
Dick Cheney

However, one towers above them all. One who would have been a kick-ass President but gave up too soon. I believe he would have been the greatest President in American history. That man is:

Bill Frist
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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2018, 01:24:51 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2018, 01:42:01 PM »
Since 1945:

Democrats:

Estes Kefauver (in 1952 or 1956)
Hubert Humphrey (in 1960 or 1968)
Lyndon Johnson (in 1960)
Edmund Muskie
Frank Church
Mo Udall
Birch Bayh
Walter Mondale (if he were to run/win in 1976, not in 1984)
Hugh Carey
Al Gore (in 1988 or 2000)
Mario Cuomo
Russ Feingold
Paul Wellstone
Hillary Clinton (in 2008, not 2016)

Republicans:

Thomas Dewey (in 1948, not '44)
Earl Warren
Richard Nixon (in 1960, not the Nixon we actually got)
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller (begrudgingly)
George HW Bush (in 1980)
Howard Baker
John McCain (in 2000, not 2008)
John Huntsman
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2018, 03:39:29 PM »
My list (all of them are massive FFs)Sad

Best president we never had (overall): Nelson Rockefeller

Best nominees who lost general election: Wendell Willkie, Al Gore

Others candidates: Bobby Kennedy, Frank Church, Richard Lugar, Earl Warren, John B. Anderson

Best men who never ran for president: Mario Cuomo, Lawton Chiles, Goodwin Knight
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