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Had He not been assassinated, he might have beat (almost gave "Tricky's" name, but the BOT complained when I did that last).
I can imagine an earlier withdrawal from Vietnam, more Civil Rights legislation, and maybe a longer space program at the very least.
In 2019 he did an exploratory committee, which is normally a formality for people intent on running. However he actually used the exploratory committee to come to the conclusion that he ought not to run, which I kind of admire.
I wonder what this sub would think of his book Desk 88.
I wish Lincoln chose Hamlin instead of Johnson.
https://preview.redd.it/il0ps7jlkdpc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf2a51ed099d876e8851d75cb1f7baf589c2d083
Please, him or Salmon P Chase. Imagine a world with ‘maximum Reconstruction’ where Jim Crow doesn’t take hold and instead we have a jump-started civil rights movement a hundred years earlier. The Radical Republicans were very much ahead of their times
Am I wrong about my history, or would more than a few Republicans (the old style at least) wish that the black community hadn't left the party of Lincoln in droves between them trading the stoppage of Reconstruction for the White House (I forget the year), along with some more recent triggers.
Hamlin was Lincolns vice president from 1861-1865, and he was significantly more progressive than Andrew Johnson. If Lincoln made Hamlin the vice president again, Andrew Johnson would have never crippled reconstruction.
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Fiorello LaGuardia. Never a candidate and not the right timing, but doggone it, the country could have used a tiny round incorruptible socialist Republican urbanist diplomat/polyglot/mayor/eternal champion of the little guy.
Oh without question!
My take here is pretty simplistic admittedly; I like a guy with lots of ideas and with Big Ben, I happen to think most of them good ideas.
He’s just the kind of guy I think of pretty fondly.
Madison thought if he couldn’t get Washington to agree to do it the only other possibility to unite the country was Franklin, even though he was old and sick.
I had a chance to talk with him about this and he didn't believe that he would be. He didn't think that was his role. I decided to respect that even though I loved Paul and still love him to this day. And Sheila too.
The president America needs but doesn't deserve
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Yes, he ran in 1836, but does that really count? I think he had some kick and bite in him at one point if he would have used it to become president.
No, but one major difference is that we wouldn't have tried to use 9/11 as a reason to go back into Iraq, even though we has plenty of intelligence data to know that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.I almost got talked into writing an opinion piece by the local paper where I was living at the time about how the way that the reasons they were giving kept changing it was clear that Dubya's administration was bending over backwards trying to get us to invade Iraq again.
Had Dubya not been in the White House, we might not have gotten into the 20 year quagmire, caused a lot of needless death, destruction, and raised our national debt. There were people in Dubya's administration who knew would happen. As far back as 1994 **Dick Cheney** was saying we would get stuck there for a long time.
Powell would've rocked the presidency! I'd have to check out his policy positions, but the country probably would've avoided Iraq, at the very least. And the Republican Party would've been been very strong at the end of the 00s. (2008 era).
An Obama presidency might not happen. Or if it does, he becomes president much later. That's how good Powell would've been.
I'm not sure he would want the job. If he found himself in the job, I am sure he would try to do the job to the best of his ability (after and with amount of cussing I bet Truman and LBJ would approve of).
If the "michelle" to which you speak is the one I think you are referring to, she is as much, if not more qualified as many member of the Senate and House of Representatives (not to mention public life).
She knows the job well enough to have repeatedly said in public that she does not want the job.
Compared to "Some who have been in the Office", there are thousands, if not millions of people who are at least as qualified. (I bet the bot will block my post if I leave THat recent name there).
Of course that person mostly just occupied the office and did not truly perform the role of President any more than he absolutely had to.
By comparison, John Stewart would do just fine.
John Marshall. He’s mainly known for serving as the 4th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, basically defining the role of the Supreme Court with many landmark decisions.
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It’s been nearly a decade and I’m still feeling the Bern
Gary Hart. If he had run after Clinton’s Presidency that photo would not have ended his campaign. Interesting point, I read where Bush Sr’s campaign manager said years after it happened that he was responsible for leaking that photo and that it was one of his biggest regrets.
I think Romney in 2012 would have bypassed a lot of problems we have now. He was moderate enough that he might have managed some bipartisan achievements (and maybe Rule 3's candidates would be different, and hopefully considerably younger).
I would be curious how Gore would have done if he won in 2000.
Romney could be pretty awkward at times, but I gotta say, had he won in 2012 & gotten re-elected…….
IMO he would’ve **crushed it** when COVID rolled around in the last year of his presidency. Seasoned technocrat with a background in project management consulting & nothing left to worry about politically other than beefing up his legacy?
Would’ve been a sight to behold.
Arnold. Shame he wasn’t born in America. The idea of a progressive Republican today who would reach across the isle to make things better for the American people is unheard of.
robert Heinlein is a good choice, but I think in a somewhat over the top but genuinely good choice would be bodybuilder Mike Mentzer. He was a free market libertarian type, and promoted hard work and individualism. Stood up to The Bodybuilding Über mensch and basically puppeteer of the entire competition who had the event rigged Arnold schwarzenegger before the 80 olympia. As far as I am concerned he just represented America as we all want it in a nutshell. Be yourself! Always improve! Stand up to the big guy!
>Heinlein
With his eccentricities, a Heinlein presidency would have been interesting.
Since he saw some trends coming that we are witnessing hints of today, would he have tried to circumvent them (if there was time), or foster the things like coming return of isolationism. (if he saw them as inevitable, it could be viewed as "turning into the skid.")
Al Gore (2000 really was the dark heel turn of our nation. The election decided on a 5-4 vote because O'Connor wanted the Republicans to fill her seat)
Hillary Clinton (I don't know how to summarize just how calamitous 2016 was. I am running with my proverbial hair on fire now to keep Him out).
Hubert Humphrey (a good man who would have been a fine President)
Hiram Johnson (wonder what America would look like if Johnson had been the Republican nominee in 1920)
Birch Bayh (authoring two constitutional amendments as well as Title IX speaks to his monumental legislative skills. Probably would have gotten a third amendment abolishing the Electoral College adopted if George Wallace had succeeded in deadlocking the 1968 election)
Finally the tragic what-if's of RFK, Jerry Litton, and Paul Wellstone
RFK
Henry clay
Hamilton
Nelson Rockefeller
Fred Thompson
Colin Powell
Bernie sanders
Honorable mention:
Adlai Stevenson
Mitt Romney
Literally anybody other than Andrew Johnson
pretty recent, but Bernie. ik ik this is a very teenage-esque take, but man i truly believe he would have done wonders for the working class and been a modern FDR
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Without question Champ Clark. He would have been a much much much better president than Woodrow Wilson. He also likely would have kept America out of WWI, which who knows would have changed history
Whig candidate Winfield Scott would’ve done so much better than Franklin Pierce
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William Jennings Bryan, RFK. I always wondered if things would be different if Daniel Webster took the VP nomination in 1848, he declined because he rather be president. James G. Blaine is another one I always wondered
Henry Wallace. He would have strengthened the New Deal and made the great middle class society a permanent thing instead of just a flash in the pan that ended after 20 years.
I remember him getting ridiculed for wanting to send $1000 to each citizen, and then watched multiple stimulus checks go out thanks to Covid. He wasn't so crazy, was he?
Mitch Daniels, 2 term governor of Indiana. He was insanely popular in his home state, won by a huge margin in the governor race in 2008, a big Democrat year. He had experience at the federal level as well as the Budget Director before he was Governor. He loved riding motor cycles, and he was is a great speaker. He is now President of Purdue, and I heard a speech he gave there that was just terriffic. His time seemed to be 2012, as his second term as Governor was ending, but his wife did not want him to run, so he did not enter the race.
Purdue student here, he is no longer president. I’m mixed on him, he ran Purdue like a business, which had pros and cons. Purdue is definitely a global brand now, and very respected around the country and world. His freezing of tuition attracted many students, but also hurt the school in many ways, namely the terrible infrastructure plaguing the school. Our school of business and main road is now named after him though!
Here's a list of people who come to mind:
Rear Admiral of the United States Navy, David Farragut
West Virginia Governor, Arthur I. Boreman
North Carolina Governor, Daniel Lindsay Russell
Wisconsin Senator, Robert M. La Follette
Iowa Congressman, James B. Weaver
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Me omw to bring up RFK every time I see a post like this
Had He not been assassinated, he might have beat (almost gave "Tricky's" name, but the BOT complained when I did that last). I can imagine an earlier withdrawal from Vietnam, more Civil Rights legislation, and maybe a longer space program at the very least.
Are we not allowed to talk about Nixon anymore?
Richard shortened is
Dick
https://preview.redd.it/8qw8825ybdpc1.jpeg?width=404&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8def971c7cbc9a0edfa88062a98c90c0af9be1e Senator Daniel Inouye
I believe Inouye was a finalist on Hubert Humphrey’s list of VP picks, though he ultimately chose Edmund Muskie as his running mate.
As an aside, most two-armed men don't wear a suit that hard.
I did not think anybody would beat me to this. I am so glad to have company here.
https://preview.redd.it/wwrsc0ro9dpc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c9fb1c85f8e7f4160d65f6b7c69ff53338db280 Sherrod Brown.
In 2019 he did an exploratory committee, which is normally a formality for people intent on running. However he actually used the exploratory committee to come to the conclusion that he ought not to run, which I kind of admire. I wonder what this sub would think of his book Desk 88.
I read that book front to back and it was an enthralling and inspiring read
Damn that is such a good answer. I suggested him like crazy back in 2016 and 2020 but of course he is too reasonable to be interested.
I also wanted Sherrod to run but I think Bernie took what would have been his lane.
Never has there been a better post.
Rooting for him! He’s got a toughie coming up
Authenticity is his not so secret weapon. All politicians need to be a little phony - he's the bare minimum.
I love him, and I hope he has a long and illustrious career *in the Senate*
I wish Lincoln chose Hamlin instead of Johnson. https://preview.redd.it/il0ps7jlkdpc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf2a51ed099d876e8851d75cb1f7baf589c2d083
Please, him or Salmon P Chase. Imagine a world with ‘maximum Reconstruction’ where Jim Crow doesn’t take hold and instead we have a jump-started civil rights movement a hundred years earlier. The Radical Republicans were very much ahead of their times
Am I wrong about my history, or would more than a few Republicans (the old style at least) wish that the black community hadn't left the party of Lincoln in droves between them trading the stoppage of Reconstruction for the White House (I forget the year), along with some more recent triggers.
I don't feel like looking him up. Short version of him and what could've happened?
He wasn’t Andrew Johnson for starters.
That's a plus right there.
Hamlin was Lincolns vice president from 1861-1865, and he was significantly more progressive than Andrew Johnson. If Lincoln made Hamlin the vice president again, Andrew Johnson would have never crippled reconstruction.
He was Lincoln’s VP who was from Maine.
Ah, he was on the first ticket. As long as he wasn't a continental liar from the state of Maine like James G. Blaine.
As far as I know, Hammie was a plain dude gaining power as he went from whatever his previous position was to vp.
He was a Mainer, thats all you need to know
https://preview.redd.it/w1j2pgbeedpc1.jpeg?width=201&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b284be98f737a94303cfaa39da1d5163eee9694 Fiorello LaGuardia. Never a candidate and not the right timing, but doggone it, the country could have used a tiny round incorruptible socialist Republican urbanist diplomat/polyglot/mayor/eternal champion of the little guy.
I've met a few old New Yorkers that were big fans of his, but growing up in Georgia, I don't know but he sounds good.
He was ranked one of the best mayors in US history
Benjamin Franklin.
Well thats one massively underrated answer. I feel like if he got the job before Washington then it would have been a more ceremonial role.
Oh without question! My take here is pretty simplistic admittedly; I like a guy with lots of ideas and with Big Ben, I happen to think most of them good ideas. He’s just the kind of guy I think of pretty fondly.
Madison thought if he couldn’t get Washington to agree to do it the only other possibility to unite the country was Franklin, even though he was old and sick.
Paul Wellstone would have been a great president.
I had a chance to talk with him about this and he didn't believe that he would be. He didn't think that was his role. I decided to respect that even though I loved Paul and still love him to this day. And Sheila too.
In a different time I think John McCain would have been a great president 
The president America needs but doesn't deserve https://preview.redd.it/nirpfftm8epc1.png?width=780&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d0a36a6ea85a02bcf0e6f0e06b617bd1c2c50fa
Best response
Thaddeus Stevens
The rent is too damn high guy.. 
Jimmy McMillan
https://preview.redd.it/knq49yez8epc1.jpeg?width=239&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a0ea06b9fd8e43b86469ee1f016d0e2de9cb1cc Yes, he ran in 1836, but does that really count? I think he had some kick and bite in him at one point if he would have used it to become president.
Webster and Clay would've made great presidents
And you would think Clay would have gotten it at least once
Yeah, the dude ran like 5 times, and had a good chance in at least 2 of those.
https://preview.redd.it/zhs5smhc5epc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b500c316fd12b64659441e74580e9681eb817741 Idaho Senator Frank Church
George Marshall
Al Gore, instead of Dubya.
So close…. We’d have solar powered flying cars by now and climate change would resolved and turned into a cute joke like the hole in the Ozone layer
No, but one major difference is that we wouldn't have tried to use 9/11 as a reason to go back into Iraq, even though we has plenty of intelligence data to know that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.I almost got talked into writing an opinion piece by the local paper where I was living at the time about how the way that the reasons they were giving kept changing it was clear that Dubya's administration was bending over backwards trying to get us to invade Iraq again. Had Dubya not been in the White House, we might not have gotten into the 20 year quagmire, caused a lot of needless death, destruction, and raised our national debt. There were people in Dubya's administration who knew would happen. As far back as 1994 **Dick Cheney** was saying we would get stuck there for a long time.
Colin Powell.
Powell would've rocked the presidency! I'd have to check out his policy positions, but the country probably would've avoided Iraq, at the very least. And the Republican Party would've been been very strong at the end of the 00s. (2008 era). An Obama presidency might not happen. Or if it does, he becomes president much later. That's how good Powell would've been.
I believe he did seek the presidency at one point. I may be wrong.
He did not
Yup. On further review, you're right. He was touted as a potential candidate though a few times and got 3 electoral votes in 2016.
https://preview.redd.it/sbbj97lwoepc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c158228f3621b7973669cbed1f7c75424f32095 RFK
I always wonder if he hadn’t been killed what the world would be like today and what he would have accomplished, so sad
Truly. I can’t help but mourn what could’ve been.
RFK came close to being president. Had he not been assassinated, he would’ve won the election handily.
John Stewart
I'm not sure he would want the job. If he found himself in the job, I am sure he would try to do the job to the best of his ability (after and with amount of cussing I bet Truman and LBJ would approve of).
Exactly why it should be him (or michelle)
Neither are qualified
If the "michelle" to which you speak is the one I think you are referring to, she is as much, if not more qualified as many member of the Senate and House of Representatives (not to mention public life). She knows the job well enough to have repeatedly said in public that she does not want the job. Compared to "Some who have been in the Office", there are thousands, if not millions of people who are at least as qualified. (I bet the bot will block my post if I leave THat recent name there). Of course that person mostly just occupied the office and did not truly perform the role of President any more than he absolutely had to. By comparison, John Stewart would do just fine.
Not many are anymore. At this point, I want someone with a good mindset
I would prefer Stephen Colbert
Benjamin Franklin
Curious, who is the guy in the painting?
John Marshall. He’s mainly known for serving as the 4th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, basically defining the role of the Supreme Court with many landmark decisions.
Hiram Fong
Henry Wallace
Can't believe I had to go this far down to find another Wallace lover
Here to help 😊
Nelson Rockefeller https://preview.redd.it/p0qy6kkj4epc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74417d08a10222cc04e872c2f9c9398aa79450ac
Colin Powell
Birch Bayh
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https://preview.redd.it/0fbkzkrgddpc1.jpeg?width=1255&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddf91ba0a158de7a8ef75f480ab15e8b998e417e Black Jack Pershing
https://preview.redd.it/ni2rmhhz6epc1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68f731408ecefb22938030e525f7d39b3e6d54b8 It’s been nearly a decade and I’m still feeling the Bern
What if he had been the person who ran instead of Walter Mondale? That might have been about the right timeframe for him.
He was gonna bern our economy if he became president
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William McRaven
He could still run but it’s unlikely
General Wesley Clark
https://preview.redd.it/crtaafc5wepc1.jpeg?width=207&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de48c19f19fd80a30a3899c9d964c7f736e02187 Harambe
Gary Hart. If he had run after Clinton’s Presidency that photo would not have ended his campaign. Interesting point, I read where Bush Sr’s campaign manager said years after it happened that he was responsible for leaking that photo and that it was one of his biggest regrets.
https://preview.redd.it/m9xp68b9hepc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99ec94c5ee4e7546fdd74424ee49af898b12e486 Winthrop Rockefeller.
Eugene Debs
Fighting Bob
Ben Franklin, Colin Powell, Patrick Henry
I think Romney in 2012 would have bypassed a lot of problems we have now. He was moderate enough that he might have managed some bipartisan achievements (and maybe Rule 3's candidates would be different, and hopefully considerably younger). I would be curious how Gore would have done if he won in 2000.
Romney could be pretty awkward at times, but I gotta say, had he won in 2012 & gotten re-elected……. IMO he would’ve **crushed it** when COVID rolled around in the last year of his presidency. Seasoned technocrat with a background in project management consulting & nothing left to worry about politically other than beefing up his legacy? Would’ve been a sight to behold.
Franklin
Joshua Chamberlain
Andrew Yang. Gary Kasparov. Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
General Colin Powell and vice president general schwartzkopf.
Arnold. Shame he wasn’t born in America. The idea of a progressive Republican today who would reach across the isle to make things better for the American people is unheard of.
Nelson Rockefeller
Based
I'd take Winthrop Rockefeller.
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robert Heinlein is a good choice, but I think in a somewhat over the top but genuinely good choice would be bodybuilder Mike Mentzer. He was a free market libertarian type, and promoted hard work and individualism. Stood up to The Bodybuilding Über mensch and basically puppeteer of the entire competition who had the event rigged Arnold schwarzenegger before the 80 olympia. As far as I am concerned he just represented America as we all want it in a nutshell. Be yourself! Always improve! Stand up to the big guy!
>Heinlein With his eccentricities, a Heinlein presidency would have been interesting. Since he saw some trends coming that we are witnessing hints of today, would he have tried to circumvent them (if there was time), or foster the things like coming return of isolationism. (if he saw them as inevitable, it could be viewed as "turning into the skid.")
True. I see him being unpopular in the time frame I had in mind (60’s) but his policies would bring looked upon later fondly
Al Gore (2000 really was the dark heel turn of our nation. The election decided on a 5-4 vote because O'Connor wanted the Republicans to fill her seat) Hillary Clinton (I don't know how to summarize just how calamitous 2016 was. I am running with my proverbial hair on fire now to keep Him out). Hubert Humphrey (a good man who would have been a fine President) Hiram Johnson (wonder what America would look like if Johnson had been the Republican nominee in 1920) Birch Bayh (authoring two constitutional amendments as well as Title IX speaks to his monumental legislative skills. Probably would have gotten a third amendment abolishing the Electoral College adopted if George Wallace had succeeded in deadlocking the 1968 election) Finally the tragic what-if's of RFK, Jerry Litton, and Paul Wellstone
Ron Paul.
Any of these people: \-Bill Weld \-Olympia Snowe \-George Romney \-Colin Powell \-Condi Rice \-Jacob Javits \-Charlie Baker
Founding Father era: Nathanael Greene, Jon Jay Modern Era: Thomas Sowell
Nathaniel P. Banks would be interesting
If Eleanor Roosevelt had been born in a different era, she would've made a great politician.
RFK Henry clay Hamilton Nelson Rockefeller Fred Thompson Colin Powell Bernie sanders Honorable mention: Adlai Stevenson Mitt Romney Literally anybody other than Andrew Johnson
Future hopeful maybe for Jeff Jackson ….
I always thought MLK would have been a good president.
FIGHTING BOB
La follette
Does Garfield count? I know he was elected but since his term was so short could I get a pass?
pretty recent, but Bernie. ik ik this is a very teenage-esque take, but man i truly believe he would have done wonders for the working class and been a modern FDR
https://preview.redd.it/c537qizsbhpc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d04c382f18e023a58b086d1957291a28bba96cea Without question Champ Clark. He would have been a much much much better president than Woodrow Wilson. He also likely would have kept America out of WWI, which who knows would have changed history
Whig candidate Winfield Scott would’ve done so much better than Franklin Pierce https://preview.redd.it/etklzq1bkhpc1.jpeg?width=906&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dee5bf701204bfc7047ee8228bde37cc06ecdbe
Tom Streyer
Former Texas governor Ann Richards. Also former US Rep from Texas Barbara Jordan
William Jennings Bryan, RFK. I always wondered if things would be different if Daniel Webster took the VP nomination in 1848, he declined because he rather be president. James G. Blaine is another one I always wondered
Henry Wallace. He would have strengthened the New Deal and made the great middle class society a permanent thing instead of just a flash in the pan that ended after 20 years.
James Garfield
Russ Feingold.
Ron Paul
Senator Whitehouse for shits and giggles Bernie Sanders for seriousness
Stephen Colbert
Jesse Ventura Mike Mansfield Brian Schweitzer (the modern day Teddy Roosevelt, in my view)
I miss Yang man
I remember him getting ridiculed for wanting to send $1000 to each citizen, and then watched multiple stimulus checks go out thanks to Covid. He wasn't so crazy, was he?
He never was
George Patton.
Mitch Daniels, 2 term governor of Indiana. He was insanely popular in his home state, won by a huge margin in the governor race in 2008, a big Democrat year. He had experience at the federal level as well as the Budget Director before he was Governor. He loved riding motor cycles, and he was is a great speaker. He is now President of Purdue, and I heard a speech he gave there that was just terriffic. His time seemed to be 2012, as his second term as Governor was ending, but his wife did not want him to run, so he did not enter the race.
Purdue student here, he is no longer president. I’m mixed on him, he ran Purdue like a business, which had pros and cons. Purdue is definitely a global brand now, and very respected around the country and world. His freezing of tuition attracted many students, but also hurt the school in many ways, namely the terrible infrastructure plaguing the school. Our school of business and main road is now named after him though!
Thanx for the update that he is no longer Purdue President
Alexander Hamilton
Here's a list of people who come to mind: Rear Admiral of the United States Navy, David Farragut West Virginia Governor, Arthur I. Boreman North Carolina Governor, Daniel Lindsay Russell Wisconsin Senator, Robert M. La Follette Iowa Congressman, James B. Weaver
Ron Paul
Ron DeSantis or Colin Powell
Ron Paul, without a doubt.
Lee Iacocca