Sat Feb 3, 2018, 10:41 PM

Who was the last decent Republican president?

I was born during the Reagan era, which means that the Republican Party I have known is the greedy, racist and warmongering political organization that has brought us Donald Trump. But, at what point did they became such an evil force in American politics? Who was the last Republican president that could be described as a decent human being with good intentions, even in disagreement with his policies?

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Who was the last decent Republican president? (Original post)	IluvPitties	Feb 2018	OP
Probably Eisenhower.	shraby	Feb 2018	#1
Abe Lincoln!!	quartz007	Feb 2018	#26
+	struggle4progress	Feb 2018	#92
He also approved the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected	thucythucy	Feb 2018	#112
What people say and what they do are too often different things.	struggle4progress	Feb 2018	#127
That was indeed a great speech.	thucythucy	Feb 2018	#135
I would say IKE	Angry Dragon	Feb 2018	#2
I was born in 1958	GWC58	Feb 2018	#9
the interstate highway system was set up to move the military	Angry Dragon	Feb 2018	#11
That is ridiculous, thanks for the chuckle. 😊	parkerMcDavis	Feb 2018	#15
Not ridiculous at all. Very true, very serious	unc70	Feb 2018	#21
Actually, that is true.	Caliman73	Feb 2018	#23
Kind of a harsh response, no?	CurtEastPoint	Feb 2018	#41
100% true, that's why the standard vertical clearance is 16 feet	Spider Jerusalem	Feb 2018	#71
I guess it takes little to make you chuckle	Angry Dragon	Feb 2018	#81
Your response	tazkcmo	Feb 2018	#95
The Act of Congress that created it was the National Defense Highway Act of 1956	lastlib	Feb 2018	#100
Not ridiculous at all.	MineralMan	Feb 2018	#121
Agreed	customerserviceguy	Feb 2018	#85
And that is why	PatSeg	Feb 2018	#120
Teddy Roosevelt maybe	no_hypocrisy	Feb 2018	#3
The same Teddy who called Italians "dago's"	Drahthaardogs	Feb 2018	#22
Roosevelt also took credit during Spanish-American War away from the Buffalo Soldiers...	brush	Feb 2018	#70
Read this book.	djg21	Feb 2018	#72
Thank you. I'll check it out. Here's one for you as well:	brush	Feb 2018	#74
Funny you should mention that! Excerpts galore:	Gabi Hayes	Feb 2018	#84
Wow, what a list. I've got my reading for quite a while now.	brush	Feb 2018	#129
Its a compelling story. Hard to believe they were psychotic. I did the audio book and had to stop	Gabi Hayes	Feb 2018	#134
Really? I had no idea. My estimation of him has completely	smirkymonkey	Feb 2018	#102
Oh it's true	Drahthaardogs	Feb 2018	#107
Horrible, I am going to have to do some reading up on that. My father's parents	smirkymonkey	Feb 2018	#108
Thanks for that info. I didn't know about that. Roosevelt also sanctioned the discrimnatory pay...	brush	Feb 2018	#133
Who was the last decent Democrat?	WhiskaBiscuit	Feb 2018	#111
Good post. The direction it took surprised me after reading the headline.	brush	Feb 2018	#128
Way too racist.	Hoyt	Feb 2018	#30
And yet he was a reformer and fought against Tamanny Hall.	Sophia4	Feb 2018	#37
You have to look at him in the context of his times.	djg21	Feb 2018	#76
Agreed.	Sophia4	Feb 2018	#83
Eisenhower, who in his farewell speech, warned of the industrial-military complex.	Liberty Belle	Feb 2018	#4
Yes, that was possibly the most famous farewell speech ever, but I never get this question answered:	Boomerproud	Feb 2018	#8
What did any of them do?	ornotna	Feb 2018	#20
If you believe the behind the scenes directives from JFK, he was battling the powers-that-be	Boomerproud	Feb 2018	#25
+100!	Rhiannon12866	Feb 2018	#17
IKe nt	doc03	Feb 2018	#5
I like Ike. n/t	Mister Ed	Feb 2018	#61
Lincoln. Nt	PCIntern	Feb 2018	#6
I Like IKE	Timewas	Feb 2018	#7
Hell, not even	GWC58	Feb 2018	#13
Eisenhower	Moral Compass	Feb 2018	#10
Eisenhower	shenmue	Feb 2018	#12
Eisenhower put William Brennan on the Supreme Court	NewJeffCT	Feb 2018	#14
Ike n/t	kydo	Feb 2018	#16
I know it wont be popular to say this	Sharpshooter007	Feb 2018	#18
Reagan and his pals were genocidal crooks who committed treason to gain office,	Gabi Hayes	Feb 2018	#82
Well, no . . .	HughBeaumont	Feb 2018	#97
As I said I wouldn't vote for Reagan in a million years.	Sharpshooter007	Feb 2018	#113
Eisenhour	Hayduke Bomgarte	Feb 2018	#19
Dwight Eisenhower. His farewell speech was a warning about the Military-Indultrial Complex.	VOX	Feb 2018	#24
There was no competition from outside at the time either.	Boomerproud	Feb 2018	#29
Uh, the speech where Eisenhower uttered those words was his farewell speech.	tonyt53	Feb 2018	#38
Agreed. American economic hegemony post world war 2 was based largely on the fact that	Volaris	Feb 2018	#63
Yes, but Eisenhower did propose	radical noodle	Feb 2018	#40
Ike.	Golden Raisin	Feb 2018	#27
I would say never was one	gopiscrap	Feb 2018	#28
Hello. Lincoln?	GulfCoast66	Feb 2018	#87
nope, if ypu're a republican, you're scum	gopiscrap	Feb 2018	#91
You do know that	Proud liberal 80	Feb 2018	#109
Ike	El Supremo	Feb 2018	#31
I have been faithful to my wife for 30 years	GulfCoast66	Feb 2018	#89
Maybe it was her bangs!!!!	LeftInTX	Feb 2018	#137
I'd say Lincoln, but his was not the same as today's Repblican Party. nt	SunSeeker	Feb 2018	#32
last decent republican president	pamdb	Feb 2018	#33
Agree	Freddie	Feb 2018	#93
Ike, but he could easily have been a Democrat	chuckstevens	Feb 2018	#34
Eisenhower tried.	Sophia4	Feb 2018	#35
My dad says Ike. I've not known one in my lifetime... Ford maybe least bad?	Still In Wisconsin	Feb 2018	#36
Gerald Ford	Hekate	Feb 2018	#39
he wasn't evil, he was just kind of meh	Skittles	Feb 2018	#45
I tried to edit my post to add Ike, but lost my connection. Ike was actually a war hero & better...	Hekate	Feb 2018	#94
I guess he was rather innoucous.Tabula placeholder Rasa.	nocalflea	Feb 2018	#60
Ike.	nocalflea	Feb 2018	#42
that and grabbing women's asses	Skittles	Feb 2018	#47
🎯	nocalflea	Feb 2018	#52
Eisenhower, Bush Senior	kurtcagle	Feb 2018	#43
What about Bush's role in Iran/Contra?	chuckstevens	Feb 2018	#59
Are you kidding? Nixon was a crook who committed treason to get in and he was not to the left...	brush	Feb 2018	#75
Curious--	MichMary	Feb 2018	#116
Nixon promised South Vietnam a "better deal" if they delayed the Paris peace talks...	Rollo	Feb 2018	#124
Comparatively speaking	kurtcagle	Feb 2018	#136
Somehow you skipped mentioning Nixon's treason.	brush	Feb 2018	#138
Lincoln	davekriss	Feb 2018	#44
Easy. Ford	dembotoz	Feb 2018	#46
Pardon me?	oasis	Feb 2018	#50
Ford ..	dembotoz	Feb 2018	#105
chuckle	salin	Feb 2018	#126
Ford? Meh! Feckless.	brush	Feb 2018	#131
Ike by a mile.	oasis	Feb 2018	#48
Ike, (too young to vote then) but then I did like Ford,	elfin	Feb 2018	#49
Im going with none of the above 😬	MLAA	Feb 2018	#51
Did not think much of Ike at the time.	IphengeniaBlumgarten	Feb 2018	#55
Im a few years to young to remember him. I will find his speech on line and listen 🙂	MLAA	Feb 2018	#68
Ike was good. Read his views on unions in his letters to his brother.	brush	Feb 2018	#77
George H. W. Bush	Billy Jingo	Feb 2018	#53
He also wasnt afraid to raise taxes when he realized the country needed it,	Bluepinky	Feb 2018	#66
Agree, at heart a moderate Repub to the left	radius777	Feb 2018	#90
Yep, and that his party softened	Cosmocat	Feb 2018	#99
For a president he was a hell of a Secretary of State.	nocalflea	Feb 2018	#117
What about Panama? That was an abusive action by his presidency.	IluvPitties	Feb 2018	#119
You like Ike, I like Ike, everyone likes Ike.	nycbos	Feb 2018	#54
Ike had some serious faults too.	Archae	Feb 2018	#56
"Operation Wetback" (yes, the actual name) was launched under Eisenhower as well.	bullwinkle428	Feb 2018	#67
Teddy Roosevelt	DBoon	Feb 2018	#57
Well we have to go back before Richard Nixon so that means I wouldn't know	jimlup	Feb 2018	#58
Ike. nt	tblue37	Feb 2018	#62
Ike.	gibraltar72	Feb 2018	#64
Eisenhower.	democratisphere	Feb 2018	#65
Eisenhower..	mountain grammy	Feb 2018	#69
Nixon	SCantiGOP	Feb 2018	#73
I would say Dwight Eisenhower. n/t	RKP5637	Feb 2018	#78
Honest Abe.	dchill	Feb 2018	#79
Ike. He wouldn't be recognized as a modern day republican	beachbum bob	Feb 2018	#80
Eisenhower	dawg day	Feb 2018	#86
Eisenhower	Thekaspervote	Feb 2018	#88
Possibly Gerald Ford - not very competent but decent-ish	LeftishBrit	Feb 2018	#96
Eisenhower gave us the roads we still use today...the current crop of GOP losers are only interested	Demsrule86	Feb 2018	#98
Ike!	KPN	Feb 2018	#101
i cant even remember when the GOP won without cheating!	samnsara	Feb 2018	#103
I wasn't born until just before Kennedy was assasinated, so I have no experience of a	smirkymonkey	Feb 2018	#104
Eisenhower	dhol82	Feb 2018	#106
Ford.	tarheelsunc	Feb 2018	#110
Ike. (nt)	Paladin	Feb 2018	#114
Eisenhower, unquestionably. Conservatives hated their non-conservative brethren for it...	JHB	Feb 2018	#115
Ike	scheming daemons	Feb 2018	#118
Ike. nt	Blue_true	Feb 2018	#122
Doesn't matter. They're all shit now.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#123
Eisenhower was a few years before my time but, as this discussion indicates...	Different Drummer	Feb 2018	#125
Gerald Ford seemed okay.	raging moderate	Feb 2018	#130
Benjamin Harrison from 1889-1893.	Mr. Ected	Feb 2018	#132

Response to IluvPitties (Original post)

Sat Feb 3, 2018, 10:41 PM

shraby (21,946 posts)

Who was the last decent Republican president?

1. Probably Eisenhower.

26. Abe Lincoln!!

92. +

112. He also approved the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected

127. What people say and what they do are too often different things.

135. That was indeed a great speech.

2. I would say IKE

9. I was born in 1958

11. the interstate highway system was set up to move the military

15. That is ridiculous, thanks for the chuckle. 😊

21. Not ridiculous at all. Very true, very serious

23. Actually, that is true.

41. Kind of a harsh response, no?

71. 100% true, that's why the standard vertical clearance is 16 feet

81. I guess it takes little to make you chuckle

95. Your response

100. The Act of Congress that created it was the National Defense Highway Act of 1956

121. Not ridiculous at all.

85. Agreed

120. And that is why

3. Teddy Roosevelt maybe

22. The same Teddy who called Italians "dago's"

70. Roosevelt also took credit during Spanish-American War away from the Buffalo Soldiers...

72. Read this book.

74. Thank you. I'll check it out. Here's one for you as well:

84. Funny you should mention that! Excerpts galore:

129. Wow, what a list. I've got my reading for quite a while now.

134. Its a compelling story. Hard to believe they were psychotic. I did the audio book and had to stop

102. Really? I had no idea. My estimation of him has completely

107. Oh it's true

108. Horrible, I am going to have to do some reading up on that. My father's parents

133. Thanks for that info. I didn't know about that. Roosevelt also sanctioned the discrimnatory pay...

111. Who was the last decent Democrat?

128. Good post. The direction it took surprised me after reading the headline.

30. Way too racist.

37. And yet he was a reformer and fought against Tamanny Hall.

76. You have to look at him in the context of his times.

83. Agreed.

4. Eisenhower, who in his farewell speech, warned of the industrial-military complex.

8. Yes, that was possibly the most famous farewell speech ever, but I never get this question answered:

20. What did any of them do?

25. If you believe the behind the scenes directives from JFK, he was battling the powers-that-be

17. +100!

5. IKe nt

61. I like Ike. n/t

6. Lincoln. Nt

7. I Like IKE

13. Hell, not even

10. Eisenhower

12. Eisenhower

14. Eisenhower put William Brennan on the Supreme Court

16. Ike n/t

18. I know it wont be popular to say this

82. Reagan and his pals were genocidal crooks who committed treason to gain office,

97. Well, no . . .

113. As I said I wouldn't vote for Reagan in a million years.

19. Eisenhour

24. Dwight Eisenhower. His farewell speech was a warning about the Military-Indultrial Complex.

29. There was no competition from outside at the time either.

38. Uh, the speech where Eisenhower uttered those words was his farewell speech.

63. Agreed. American economic hegemony post world war 2 was based largely on the fact that

40. Yes, but Eisenhower did propose

27. Ike.

28. I would say never was one

87. Hello. Lincoln?

91. nope, if ypu're a republican, you're scum

109. You do know that

31. Ike

89. I have been faithful to my wife for 30 years

137. Maybe it was her bangs!!!!

32. I'd say Lincoln, but his was not the same as today's Repblican Party. nt

33. last decent republican president

93. Agree

34. Ike, but he could easily have been a Democrat

35. Eisenhower tried.

36. My dad says Ike. I've not known one in my lifetime... Ford maybe least bad?

39. Gerald Ford

45. he wasn't evil, he was just kind of meh

94. I tried to edit my post to add Ike, but lost my connection. Ike was actually a war hero & better...

126. chuckle