The President Elimination Game

I’ll keep providing Harding links until enough people join me in voting ol’ Warren out.

Ronald Reagan. Honestly, I can’t believe it’s round four and his name hasn’t even been brought up.

I vote for Ronnie Ray-Gun.

Harding.

Xander convinced me: Andrew Johnson, the wrong man at the wrong time. Keep in mind Buchannon, Pierce and Harding were never impeached.

Quick notes on a few names mentioned:

Nixon- he was a nutty creep, but deserves points for opening the door to China, and getting us out of Nam. A brilliant statesman.

Harding- a harmless doofus. I predict he gets the finger next though.

Madison- he deserves SOME credit for being a Founding Father, no?

I would like to conclude by expressing my deep bitterness that as a Pennsylvanian, I resent our only President getting voted off first! :smiley:

Andrew Johnson is no more.

George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817)
James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)
John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837)
Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841)
John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845)
James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850)
Milliard Filmore (Whig, 1850-1853)
Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877)
Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881)
Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885)
Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897)
Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893)
William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901)
Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913)
Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921)
Warren Harding (Republican, 1921-1923)
Calvin Coolidge (Republican, 1923-1929)
Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
Henry Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963)
Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969)
Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974)
Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977)
James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981)
Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989)
George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993)
William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001)

Eliminated Presidents:

  1. James Buchanan (Democrat, 1857-1861)
  2. Franklin Pierce (Democrat, 1853-1857)
  3. Andrew Johnson (National Union, 1865-1869)

Milliard Filmore again.

A cute essay about ol’ Rutherford and his museum…

Can’t vote for him yet, though.

Harding (again).

Yea Filmore’s number is up. He is especially disastrous because he was such an inferior leader compared to his predecessor who’s death elevated him. The Compromise of 1850 (which Taylor was against) was one of the biggest mistakes on the road to the Civil War.

Hey Hey LBJ, How many Kids you killed today?

That’s my vote.

“Not nostrums, but normalcy.”

Not Hayes, but Harding.

Madison, again. I see no reason to give any presidents credit for their pre- (and post-) presidencies.

Nixon is next to go, but I must second Hoover. Great humanitarian, but terrible President, especially in regards to the economy.

Still Grant.

Nixon.

Harding gets the thumbs down from me.

Fill-more! Fill-more! Fill-more!

Harding. Yeah, tempted to put Tricky Dick on there, but he signed several bills into law that no future (or <ahem> recent) GOP president or candidate would even think of signing now. If Dubya* has served during Nixon’s time in office a number of organisms would be extinct in the Lower 48 now (okay last time I’ll rag on Bush Jr. since he’s not eligible), including my favorite animal of all time the Peregrine Falcon.

[*Yes I realize that in many ways a President is a product of his times and all that.]

Given the props you have proferred to General Taylor (who gets my vote for most UNDERRATED president, and I’m sure my reasons will come up later), I will put aside my postbellum disapproval of Hayes and add my voice to those calling for this antebellum mediocrity’s ouster. It’s tough raising a voice against one of my co-religionists, but Fillmore’s willingness to compromise after Taylor’s courageous (and, given his modest political background, rather brilliant) stand certainly qualifies Millard for the highway this round.

Warren Harding.
Nixon at least opened up China and did his best to get us out of Nam without looking like cowards. Grant and Madison, while terrible presidents, still have a shine for me for their pre-Presedential acts. I don’t get the Fillmore animosity at all.

Harding, easily.