Retrospective approval rating

[Coburn In 2012]

Nixon (approve of foreign policy.  prefer the 50s era Nixon to the moderate to liberal he became on social issues as Pres)

Reagan (strongly approve of everything.  greatest Pres in American history and maybe the greatest leader in the history of the world)

Bush 1   (approve overall but wussed out on taxes and some big government ideas)

Bush 2   (strongly approve of everything except his spending on social welfare programs foreign aide and dumbass environmental programs.  He really was a great Pres and I would put him in the top 5 ever.)

[pogo stick]

Disapprove of all of them. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

I'm surprised you didn't approve of Reagan.

This is the second thing I've seen in the past 20 seconds that proves the LP will never be a serious, mainstream party.

Why should I approve of someone who jacked up the national debt, escalated the Drug War, and intervened in Grenada, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Lebanon, and a ton of other countries, among his crimes?

your crazy.

[JSojourner]

Approve of all the Democrats plus Eisenhower, Ford and Bush 41

I am almost in this camp.  But I put disapprove by Johnson.  The war in SE Asia was more his fault than anyone else's.  (Though I realize the first "advisers" went in under Ike.)  That insane and useless war cast such a pall over the wonderfully good things he tried to do at home, that I couldn't vote "approve".  Still, I understand why someone would feel his Civil Rights and Great Society legacies would outweigh the war.

[SPC]

Disapprove of all of them. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

I'm surprised you didn't approve of Reagan.

This is the second thing I've seen in the past 20 seconds that proves the LP will never be a serious, mainstream party.

Why should I approve of someone who jacked up the national debt, escalated the Drug War, and intervened in Grenada, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Lebanon, and a ton of other countries, among his crimes?

your crazy.

Do you dispute any of my claims?

[Phony Moderate]

(Bump)

Truman - Disapprove (Mainly due to his warmongering.)
Eisenhower - Approve (Civil rights progress, fairly modest foreign policy.)
Kennedy - Approve (More because of what he said than what he did.)
Johnson - Slightly Approve (Civil Rights Act, Great Society. I would think more highly of him if it wasn't for Vietnam, obviously.)
Nixon - Neutral (I would maybe slightly approve if it wasn't for Watergate.)
Ford - Slightly Approve (The last Republican President who wasn't a social conservative.)
Carter - Approve (For approaching the Israel-Palestine situation in a honest manner.)
Reagan - Disapprove (One of the main reasons why the Religious Right has so much power and influence in today's Republican Party. Not to mention his terrible economic policies.)
Bush Sr. - Slightly Disapprove ("I don't know if I can consider Atheists to be citizens.")
Clinton - Slightly Approve (Oversaw the dawn of the internet age and a good economy.)
Bush Jr. - Disapprove (Iraq and Afghanistan wars, PATRIOT Act, financial crisis, social conservatism, and so on.)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Truman - Disapprove (Mainly due to his warmongering.)

[WillK]

...
We do live in 3 dimensions. You could build a road next to another road, above another road, below another road, or on a completely different path. ...

This system would produces extensive waste.  Rather than being efficient, it would be quite inefficient.  Therefore, the system would never work that way.  The providers of the roads would  lack the economy of scale in both production and funding that the public sector.   To maintain profitability, companies would need to take measures to severely limit competition and the need to still generate a return to investors would probably lead companies to provide the least acceptable quality while charging as much as possible.  Without some government control or a pool of captive customers, no private roads of any size would be built due to the massive capital costs and the uncertain return.

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However the 'owners' of the roads would want to encourage as much driving as possible. 

[WillK]

Disapprove of all of them. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

I'm surprised you didn't approve of Reagan.

This is the second thing I've seen in the past 20 seconds that proves the LP will never be a serious, mainstream party.

Why should I approve of someone who jacked up the national debt, escalated the Drug War, and intervened in Grenada, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Lebanon, and a ton of other countries, among his crimes?

your crazy.

But its the sanest think hes said in this thread.....

[tpfkaw]

I am going to argue with quotes from 2 years ago!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Also to note that the guy against which Will argued was banned twice from the Atlas Forum.

Still, Will is right.

[Phony Moderate]

I am going to argue with quotes from 2 years ago!

I'm going to explore someone's YouTube channel in order to make a meaningless point which I will display in my sig!