Who is someone you wished had become President but never did? (parties, patriot)

[BobNJ1960]

Condoleezza Rice

[chiociolliscalves]

Paul Tsongas
Jack Kemp
I wasn't alive when he was, but William Jennings Bryan

Some of the very, very few politicians with some integrity and principles. The vast majority listed in this thread are opportunists and weaklings. For example, Trump insulted Ted Cruz's wife, implying she's ugly, and also accused Cruz's dad of playing a part in the JFK assassination. Within weeks, he was making campaign calls on the Trump campaign's behalf. That, my friends, is a spineless coward. His wife should've decked him, along with his old man.

[chiociolliscalves]

Originally Posted by boneyard1962

Webb is an excellent choice. I wrote him in in 2016.

As I recall, I did the same.

[Bureaucat]

Originally Posted by bu2

+rep

I had forgotten about his runs.

“We Can’t Stand Pat”

[TempesT68]

Howard Dean

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by ohio_peasant

* John Anderson (3rd party candidate in 1980).
* Gary Hart
* Nelson Rockefeller (my personal favorite)
* Adlai Stevenson

The bolded was the first vote I ever cast for a Presidential candidate.

[Bamaman1]

Howard Baker, Senator from Tennessee.

Like many others, it just wasn't his time when he was ready to go beyond Senate leadership positions.

[redguitar77111]

- William Henry Harrison (he died too early to do anything as President, would have revived the National Bank)
- Hannibal Hamlin (would have been much better for Reconstruction than Andrew Johnson)
- Thaddeus Stevens (see above)
- William Jennings Bryan (a champion for poor farmers and workers, civil liberties, and internationalism)
- Charles Evans Hughes (likely would have been less of a tyrant during WWI, alcohol likely would never have happened, and would have been less stubborn about conditions for joining the League of Nations than Woodrow Wilson)
- Henry Wallace
- Wayne Morse (one of two votes against the Vietnam War in all of Congress)
- Ernest Gruening (the other vote against the Vietnam War)
- Hubert Humphrey (A champion for civil rights, would have extended healthcare and appointed liberal justices)
- RFK (a champion for civil rights and ending the Vietnam War)
- Edmund Muskie
- George McGovern (him winning might have been seen as a mandate to scale back the War on Drugs, Selective Service, and similar intrusions into people’s lives)
- Frank Church (passionate about ending surveillance)
- John Anderson (passionate about voting rights)
- Walter Mondale (opposes mandatory Selective Service registration)
- Michael Dukakis (liberal on criminal justice, would have appointed a worthy replacement for Thurgood Marshall and wouldn’t have started the Middle Eastern wars)
- Al Gore (would have acted on warnings about Al-Qaeda, wouldn’t have let Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora, no No Child Left Behind or Iraq War)
- John Kerry (would have vetoed the bill that prevents people with student debt from discharging loans in bankruptcy)
- Howard Dean (opposed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, the PATRIOT Act, and the Iraq War)

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Trueguy58

I'm sure they watch Oann and RT as well.

[redguitar77111]

I wonder what Thomas Dewey, Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, John McCain, and Mitt Romney would have been like as President.