Favorite 20th-century Republican President?

the president. He said it's a part of life

:D

But of course we are talking about republicans that were fairly progressive in his day.

He was a Trust busting Republican that made Capitalism flourish in America

For his enviromentalism and sharp mind.

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same thing with Harding, Coolidge, Nixon. I can understand Eisenhower, but the rest are all trolls, except TR, (my vote btw).

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That damn pledge thing.

It burns my bowels that we have a big old building and an airport named for Ronnie and nothing noticable named for Ike. Ike should not have crossed the Military-Industrial Complex......

I guess that's one consolation...

It was Ike that brought the idea back from Germany to build the Interstate Highway System. Not bad, if one asks me.

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That's millions of miles of monument.

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In these parts.

Ike is spinning in his grave that his prediction about the military-industrial complex may have come true years ago, but is now embodied in the personality of a U.S. president. Ford was a decent man, if uninspired. His pardon of Nixon may have saved the country from being rent asunder any further. The rest you can keep. GWB is by far the worst and most dangerous - including Nixon and Reagan.

Er ist ein Deutscher Amerikaner wie mich:)

not a ton 'cuz he didn't stand up to either McCarthy or Hoover. But I like him better than Teddy because Teddy gave the ok to Japan to take over Korea. "The Korean Chosun dynasty is plainly corrupt and incompetent, and should be replaced by a more modern nation's rule." something like that, he said. He might've been pissed because Korea's King Kojong destroyed an American gunboat, then battled US marines who attempted a retaliatory raid after the gunboat business. The raid was actually pretty successful, then in usual US fashion, they seemingly forgot about Korea after administering a beating, and basically just left. Stomped some villages in the course of things. So, given how Teddy did the number on the Gilded Age robber barons, maybe I'm being narrow-minded to rate Ike higher, but there you are....

Senate Dems gave Bush his miserable fucking oil war. Clinton gave the Repugs NAFTA, GATT, WTO, utility deregulation and media ownership deregulation. He did that while they attacked him and shit on his other bills that where cornerstones of his campaign. Smart move Bill.

times were different, people's values were different.
Korea was not actually annexed by japan until 1910, under taft's watch and Roosevelt did attempt to intimidate japan with the US fleet. Admiral Togo even put out the japanese fleet in an attempt to checkmate Roosevelt if he got too cocky. Luckily the US and japanese fleets never actually crossed paths---there very well could have been a war.
I do not think Roosevelt could have realized how ugly japan's rule of Korea would become either.

I disagree with you about the 1910 date - that was technically the annexation date, but the Japanese had moved in and taken over probably 10-15 years earlier (what do you call it when the king has to hide in a foreign embassy?). It was all a part of the Russ-Japanese war, which is where the whole 38th parallel business got started, and also part of Japan's thing at the time of "we can run asia better than anyone else" mindset. Relatives of my wife's were assassinated during the takeover, so I likely have a biased view (she's currently matriarch of the Min family).

Gosh, I miss that paranoid, anti-semitic, homophobic creep in a weird sort of way.

I have a sheet with the super-rare misprint upside-down Dick!

oh, and that smile!

voted for IKe, he needed some help up there

But Teddy was a better president, but Ike has the whole Supreme Allied Commander deal

No question about it. TR Rocked!!!!

He had so much more class than these intolerant white christian gun nuts who drool over big buisness.

I know, that's cruel.

during a very exciting time and didn't do a bad job.
On a technicality, was Teddy a Repub? I thought he left his party and become a male Moose, or something?

It was the "Green Party" of it's time. What we seem to forget is that the Republican party when it started under Lincoln it was the liberal party. Teddy was a Trust busting Republican and quit after his second term. Teddy said that all presidents should quit after their second term in office. His cousin Franklin didn't believe in that so he would stay till he was voted out or he died. I'm glad to say died doing what he loved. Making sure America was a great place to live:)

They can't hurt the country any more!

Not that I think he'd get many votes. But you've got to like a guy who got stuck in the White House bathtub (possible urban legend).

True story or at least I've heard it is.

Taft got stuck in the first one...I wonder how the SS kept straight faces while trying to shoehorn him out of there?

Bad visual!

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...he was only in there for two years and couldn't do much damage anyway after the '74 Democratic midterm landslide.

The couple of years immediately following Watergate were probably the last time we have had a window of opportunity to get some truly progressive policy changes enacted, and we managed to get a lot of housecleaning done. Ford couldn't do anything to stop it. If we must have a Republican president, make it somebody like him who is weak and capitulates to *our* agenda, instead of the other way around.

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and pretty much by default, given the generally wretche3d alternatives.

Plus he supported conservation and created national parks.

His foreign policy, of course, carries on to this day, except that Bush* has apparently forgotten how to speak softly...

Everything I've read about him indicates he was a friggin brilliant President. He came into office in 1929. 8 months later, the market crashed.

The crash and depression weren't his fault, but he got the blame.

The man was a self-made millionaire mining engineer, and advised every President (except FDR) up til his death.

eom

War vet
Conservationist
Trust buster
Union Supporter
Progressive
Shares my birthday

He's the one

BULLY!!!!

Next to Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Ford. That says it all about how pathetic Republicans are.

in bedtime for bonzo.

Bonzo was the better actor!

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The repubs are just too cheap to bury the p???k!

A Son of a Bonzo is what we got now!

(out of pity)

If Teddy was alive today, he'd most likely be the owner of a pro football team.

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