Favorite Republican of 20th Century

[ronnykmarshall]

Poll question: Favorite Republican of 20th Century

I know this is like make a choice between dog poop and cat poop. But go ahead, hold your nose and pick.

[underpants]

1. Ike, a Repube in name only

plus he helped save the world.

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Very true.

To think what might have been had Ike taken the Democratic nod instead.

[meegbear]

4. and he's dead ...

the only good repug is a dead repug.

[buff2]

10. A-MEN!!!

I agree with you on that one!!! :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

2. What the hell? Jerry Ford.

I have a signed letter from Pres. Ford congratulating me for earning my Eagle Scout. Even my liberal parents didn't mind Jerry so much.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Warren Rudman isn't such a bad guy!

Kevin Phillips isn't so bad...Heck Tom Campbell just needs to switch parties and I might vote for him. I almost chose him over Feinstein anyway.

[Mr. Jinx]

6. I'd even give TR a vote

There's something about him that I always liked. I'm not sure what, but there is.

[soupkitchen]

7. Shouldn't there be a vote for Teddy Roosevelt

the man was way way ahead of his time

[ronnykmarshall]

8. Ah damnit!

I knew I left someone out. When I think of Republicans, it's hard for me to think that TR was one.

If I edit it and add TR, can people change their votes?

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. He isn't, by today's standards

Let's face it, Teddy and Ike would never get the Republican nominiation. Teddy was a tree-hugger and what's all this nonsense about a military-industrial complex, anyway?!

[rock]

11. Couldn't we group the dead ones together?

Since I can't vote for them all?

[nuxvomica]

12. Write-in for Charles Goodell

Senator from NY. Appointed by Rocky as RFK's replacement. Shocked the Repubs by acting as liberal as his predecessor. Defeated by conservative candidate James Buckley.


Check this out:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10787

And another write-in: Robert Taft.

[CO Liberal]

13. Teddy Roosevelt

He was a progressive Republican.

[TedsGarage]

14. Gerald Rudolph Ford

I vote for Gerald Ford, too. The only president from my home state of Michigan, the only Republican my parents ever voted for, he was pro-choice, pro-ERA, and he presided over the Disco Era with class and grace. Visit his museum in Grand Rapids. It's full of pet rocks and yellow smiley faces.

[UrbScotty]

23. Absolutely!

I wouldn't have agreed with him on every issue, but I have been to the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, and it is fantastic.

[playahata1]

15. Lowell Weicker.

ex-Senator from Connecticut? (Or was it Vermont -- hell, somewhere in New England.)

[Rowdyboy]

16. Herbert Hoover...

because he was too damn stupid to respond to the desperation of the American people in the Depression, leading to 20 glorious years of Democratic rule under Roosevelt and Truman!

[starroute]

17. Fiorello LaGuadia, Jacob Javits, John Lindsey

Lots of good Republicans in New York back then.

As long as Tammany Hall was around, it kept the Democratic Party corrupt enough to drive some good people to the Republicans. But by the end of the 60's, that was all over. (I think even Lindsey left the Republican Party while he was still mayor.)

[Norbert]

18. One more for Ike.

He worried the hell out of the right wing of the GOP.

Everett Dirkson was a good and likable Republican senator.

Don't forget Lincoln Chalfee(sp) and Olympia Snowe.

[CO Liberal]

20. Yes He Did

John Lindsey became a Democrat in 1968, and was a candidate in teh presidential primaries that year.

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. Gonna give Ike the slight edge over McCain

Even though he was Prescott Bush's golfing buddy, and the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket was hand picked by Prescott himself, Ike saw the BCE agenda developing in its early stages, and wanted no part of it, unlike Tricky Dick. He even tried to warn the American people about the evils of the "military industrial complex".

Too bad nobody listened. The General's gotta be doing some triple somersaults in his grave watching what his former golfing buddy's moronic grandson is doing. :evilfrown:

[toolfan]

21. Senator William Proxmire

Senator Proxmire lobbied for the ratification of the UN Genocide Convention in the Senate for 19 years, giving a speech a day on the Senate floor, totalling 3,211 speeches. If I had to pick a Republican "hero", it would be Senator Proxmire.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. John D Rockefeller IV

He's my DEMOCRAT Senator now!

[regularguy]

24. Earl Warren.

.

[noonwitch]

25. Barry Goldwater

I might have disagreed with him about some things, but he was who he was. Incidentally, Malcolm X endorsed him before his death. He thought that LBJ was a closet racist (he wasn't wrong, although LBJ did sign civil rights' legislation), and that you might as well know what you're voting for.

[Aristus]

26. Uh, where's Teddy Roosevelt? Whether or not he would be a Repub

today, he was one, and needs to be on the board. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. Second choice: Gerald Ford. As unspectacular as they come, he nevertheless possessed something far too few Repukes do today: simple decency.

[mvd]

27. Ford pardoned Nixon, but..

that's expected. So he's still my "favorite" - not that it means much at all.