Describe your ideal presidential candidate here.

[Sonny Limatina]

A guy that neither the Democrat nor the Republican party would nominate today.

TR wanted universal health care and social security...

 

[Byron In Exile]

TR wanted universal health care and social security...

I'm not sure... was that supposed to somehow contradict what I said, or were you agreeing?

 

[Sonny Limatina]

I'm not sure... was that supposed to somehow contradict what I said, or were you agreeing?

Augmenting.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I agree. TR couldnt get nominated in a 1000 campaigns of trying these days. I blame the middleclass who demand antisepsis and homogenation and Spandex principles. Your modern bourgeois is okay sending people to death camps so long as they ride in a pleasant coach that prohibits smoking NOT a cattle car.

 

[kbate]

Ideally:

1. A person who can laugh when the press uses the term "Veto Proof Legislation" - and then stamp that fucker "rejected" anyway - forcing congressmen to vote again.

2. A person who is not beholden to their party's theoretical philosophy and who is honestly willing to listen to both sides.

3. A person who understands budget math as: Revenue - Budgeted Items > 0.

4. A person who understands that "Protect and defend the Constitution" - means just that - not protect and defend parts and people of the nation that I like.

5. A person who speaks of preserving freedom rather than of social issues.

We are not going to see this person.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

I've always wanted to see someone take office from either party and during the inaugural speech declare independence and take all issues to the people for support.


I can dream.

 

[richard_daily]

1. Someone who's not afraid to stand up to China and corporations, and bring jobs back to this country by any means necessary.

2. Someone who is not afraid to take unpopular stands that will benefit this country down the road (infrastructure building, for example, which would seem like a no brainer)

3. Someone who will not use crony-capitalism and will reject the culture of lobbyists penning laws.

4. Someone who realizes that wartime economy has not worked since WW2. For some reason politicians are under some sort of impression they should keep trying it.

5. Someone who will stand up for the interests of the people of this country.

6. Someone who realizes that the economy is part of Earth's eco-system, not the other way around.

 

[KingOrfeo]

My ideal candidate would be something like Dennis Kucinich, but not a vegetarian, nor quite so much of a pacifist.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

My ideal candidate would be something like Dennis Kucinich, but not a vegatarian, nor quite so much of a pacifist.

Yeah vegetarians and veterinarians....fuck em!

why vegetarians?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yeah vegetarians and veterinarians....fuck em!

why vegetarians?

I have no brief for the meat industry, it's just the whole New-Age woo-woo thing . . . I want a LW POTUS, but one a bit more serious than that.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Augmenting.

Ah. Well, then, you shouldn't have left out his views on the manned exploration of outer space.

We all know how well that's going over these days.

 

[Byron In Exile]

We are not going to see this person.

http://www.shmoop.com/media/images/large/thomas-jefferson-orig.jpeg

We could dig him up, but there wouldn't be much resemblance by now.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Ah. Well, then, you shouldn't have left out his views on the manned exploration of outer space.

TR? Seriously?

 

[Sonny Limatina]

The current revisionist version of Ronald Reagan would be a pretty good president.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The current revisionist version of Ronald Reagan would be a pretty good president.

Which revisionist version?

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Which revisionist version?

We who remember the actual president are all going to be dead one day.

Scary thought!

 

[patient1]

As for the ideal candidate, I'd want to go with somebody who is great on TV, such as Ronald Reagan or Barrack Obama, or somebody who had the wit and charm to handle the press, like John Kennedy.

 

[Byron In Exile]

The Final Solution: Dead Teddy Roosevelt wearing a JFK mask, while under a mountain in Colorado Colossus makes the decisions.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/still-image/Colossus-%20The%20Forbin%20Project/102627465.03.01.lg.jpg

 

[coastal-boy]

'
1st choice: Samuel Adams

2nd choice: Patrick Henry

3rd choice: George Mason

Doesn't surprise me...every one of them owned slaves

Samuel was "gifted" one female slave. There is conflicting reports that she was ever freed. We do know, that she stayed in his house as a "cook" even after Mass outlawed "slavery". Patrick Henry owned upwards of 75 slaves and GM owned several hundred.

 

[KingOrfeo]

As for the ideal candidate, I'd want to go with somebody who is great on TV, such as Ronald Reagan or Barrack Obama, or somebody who had the wit and charm to handle the press, like John Kennedy.

Are we talking about the candidate most ideally suited to win or to govern?

 

[phrodeau]

Someone with experience in a daycare, so that he can better deal with the squabbling toddlers in Congress.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

What the fuck; let's just elect the chick with the best tits?

 

[JenAltArmy]

Any means necessary?

do you really mean that?

1. Someone who's not afraid to stand up to China and corporations, and bring jobs back to this country by any means necessary.

2. Someone who is not afraid to take unpopular stands that will benefit this country down the road (infrastructure building, for example, which would seem like a no brainer)

3. Someone who will not use crony-capitalism and will reject the culture of lobbyists penning laws.

4. Someone who realizes that wartime economy has not worked since WW2. For some reason politicians are under some sort of impression they should keep trying it.

5. Someone who will stand up for the interests of the people of this country.

6. Someone who realizes that the economy is part of Earth's eco-system, not the other way around.

 

[KRCummings]

Whomever is the most entertaining.
W would have been awesomely entertaining if he hadn't been so stupid. Clinton was all kinds of fun. Obama is boring. Reagan was boring for the most part but he did have a few good moments. That time he was testing the mic and said we were bombing Russia was great. Plus he loved Jelly Bellys and anyone who loves those can't be all bad. Carter was boring. Ford was boring as fuck. Nixon of course was great. Possibly the greatest of all time.

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/byroninexile/nl/NL056-Nov1974.jpg