# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/61 "2011-06-04T13:19:41Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > As a side note–I would happily have swapped Richard Milhouse Nixon for George W, & been grateful for the bargain. I completely agree, though there’s no way on Earth I would have agreed before experiencing the “highlights” of Bush’s presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Docta\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/62 "2011-06-04T21:38:49Z")
Gary Busey ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/63 "2011-06-09T04:08:46Z")
My pick in the last election would have been Richardson, and I still think he could have done a good job of it, or made an effective VP at least. ---
**Author:** ![gatorslap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gatorslap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorslap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/64 "2011-06-09T04:35:23Z")
Barbara Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/65 "2011-06-09T11:09:18Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > My pick in the last election would have been Richardson, and I still think he could have done a good job of it, or made an effective VP at least. What…more memorable than Joe Biden? Balderdash. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/66 "2011-06-13T21:47:49Z")
Yours truly. Since the Veep doesn’t do anything, I’d have Christina Hendricks for said office. Hmmmm…Jesse Ventura in the Cabinet. Gore Vidal in Cabinet. Other Cabinet choices later. Best wishes, hh ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/13edae/32.png) [@FarmerChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/67 "2011-06-15T18:03:55Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Or, for a Republican, Darth Vader. > > What? You thought Kirk would be pro-Tea Party? In what world is darth vader a republican…?? hes obviously a big gov commy lib. Luke, or leia maybe. Han solo is my guy hes closer 2 the “f the man” libertarian. Someone back from the dead? calvin coolage. But if we go that far then george washington, and that way he could read the consitution and we could find out if he would be cool with gay marrige and other social issues. But for now easily ron paul, or gary johnson ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/68 "2011-06-15T18:31:40Z")
Keith Richards. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/69 "2011-06-15T19:40:55Z")
I’ll resist the impulse to pick Charlie Sheen in favor of someone who really is always “Winning!” Richard Branson. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/70 "2011-06-15T23:04:09Z")
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. I don’t know much about her in terms of political experience, but what I have read of her articles and interviews with her seem to indicate that she has a real commitment to improving economic and social justice. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/71 "2011-06-16T21:31:54Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > My off-the-cuff answer is [Rush Holt,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Holt) Plus we’d get the best bumper sticker ever: “Finally, the president **is** a rocket scientist!” (He worked for Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and has a PhD in physics) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_McAwful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@Larry\_McAwful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_McAwful)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/72 "2011-06-17T01:16:14Z")
My second choice would be Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). My first choice is, of course, Dr. Who. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645/73 "2011-06-17T01:23:17Z")
Maybe Alexander Hamilton to solve our debt crisis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-president-any-president/577645.md?page=3)