# Pick a president, any president! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 8, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645 "2011-04-08T11:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/41 "2011-04-25T21:57:05Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Jean-Luc Picard Or, for a Republican, Darth Vader. What? You thought Kirk would be pro-Tea Party? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/42 "2011-04-26T04:57:04Z")
> [@bosda di'chi of tricor](#): > > or, for a republican, darth vader. > > What? You thought kirk would be pro-tea party? palpatine! Palpatine! Palpatine! Palpatine! Palpatine! Palpatine! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/43 "2011-05-27T03:00:28Z")
He may be too tainted by W but, I always liked Colin Powell. ---
**Author:** ![medicated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@medicated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medicated)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/44 "2011-05-27T03:05:39Z")
Elizabeth Warren anyone? I don’t know that she’d do a good job, but I’d bet that she’d try. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/45 "2011-05-27T03:14:05Z")
[Greg Mankiw](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Gregory_Mankiw) If Congress won’t listen to him on economic policy they won’t listen to anybody. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/46 "2011-05-27T03:19:06Z")
Russ Feingold. He’s the best straight-shooter that the Democratic Party has, and I think he’d make some strong stands in favor of personal rights over corporate rights, and maybe actually balance the budget. For this reason, he is entirely unelectable. I would vote for him in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/47 "2011-05-27T03:24:52Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Russ Feingold. He’s the best straight-shooter that the Democratic Party has, and I think he’d make some strong stands in favor of personal rights over corporate rights, and maybe actually balance the budget. For this reason, he is entirely unelectable. I would vote for him in a heartbeat. Yep. Russ Feingold was my guy. Only in Tea Party America would someone as competent as Russ Feingold be voted out of Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/48 "2011-05-27T03:28:49Z")
Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/49 "2011-05-27T03:47:33Z")
Jack Bauer. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/50 "2011-05-27T03:57:46Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > He’s dead, Jim. You grab his tricorder; I’ll get his wallet. So is FDR but you had no difficulties with his (earlier) nomination. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/51 "2011-05-27T05:38:50Z")
Hal Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![Whoo69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Whoo69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whoo69)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/52 "2011-05-27T07:11:44Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > [Greg Mankiw](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Gregory_Mankiw) > > If Congress won’t listen to him on economic policy they won’t listen to anybody. I dunno… I’ve heard repeatedly that he’s a “New Keynesian”, but he seems little more than a conservative neoclassical to me, especially because I had his textbooks for at least one or two of my big college Econ classes. If you’ve ever read his blog, you’d get what I’m talking about even more so. Did you know he was an economic adviser to Mitt Romney in '08? Ugh… Romney. God, I hate that douchebag. How the hell can you actually dare to turn JFK’s speech on its head and claim that “freedom requires religion”? THE FUCK?:smack: Tell that to all the ‘heretics’ who were killed and tortured during the Inquisition and Crusades, or the millions living under oppression in the Arab World. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/53 "2011-05-27T12:57:48Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > [Greg Mankiw](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Gregory_Mankiw) > > If Congress won’t listen to him on economic policy they won’t listen to anybody. Why should they listen to a guy who may tell partial truths on occasion, but who is by and large a right-wing hack? Let’s turn this over to [Krugman](http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/charlatans-and-cranks/): [QUOTE=Paul Krugman] In the first edition (but only the first edition) of his textbook, Greg Mankiw famously derided Reagan’s supply-side advisers as charlatans and cranks. It’s pretty clear that when Mankiw wrote that he imagined that this was only a phase, that the GOP would return to more sensible policies. [/QUOTE] And when he found he was wrong about its being a passing phase, he had a choice between continuing to speak the truth about supply-side economics, or changing his tune to aid his career. And that was just the first of many instances of Greg Mankiw hackitude. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/54 "2011-05-27T13:11:54Z")
I’m on board with Feingold. Let’s work on the resolution to draft him. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/55 "2011-05-27T14:49:08Z")
George Washington. Second choice Thomas Jefferson. Alive or dead, either way. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/56 "2011-05-27T15:57:04Z")
> [@Whoo69](#): > > Ugh… Romney. God, I hate that douchebag. How the hell can you actually dare to turn JFK’s speech on its head and claim that “freedom requires religion”? THE FUCK?:smack: > > Tell that to all the ‘heretics’ who were killed and tortured during the Inquisition and Crusades, or the millions living under oppression in the Arab World. Even better was the next passage, that “Religion requires freedom.” Tell that to the Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/57 "2011-05-27T16:09:23Z")
No mention of Warren Buffett? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/58 "2011-05-27T16:11:53Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Even better was the next passage, that “Religion requires freedom.” Tell that to the Jews. Oh I don’t now. I find it entertaining that the Mormon GOPer keeps reminding people about religion. Hey Mittens? I don’t know if anyone told you, but your White Southern Baptist base is not fond of your religion. You should probably stop bringing up the subject of religion. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/59 "2011-06-04T04:03:09Z")
[Ralph Wiggum](ralph wiggum for president) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/60 "2011-06-04T11:22:05Z")
As a side note–I would happily have swapped Richard Milhouse Nixon for George W, & been grateful for the bargain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645.md?page=4)