Oh shit, did we lose him again?
Or Washington. Or Jefferson. Or Madison.
And if Trump wins . . . Where the hell is our Booth?
FDR.
I would accept Huey Long.
*Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
Who put up the hospital and built your schools?
Who looks after the shit-kickers like you?
The Kingfish do
Who took on the Standard Oil men
And kicked their ass just like he said he’d do?
Ain’t no Standard Oil men gonna run this state
Gonna be run by little folks like me and you
Here comes the Kingfish
The Kingfish
Everybody sing
Here’s the Kingfish
The Kingfish
Every man a king*
Even better. A new National Recovery Act, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps would be just the ticket for creating thousands of jobs and restoring our shitty infrastructure.
And every Post Office in the country could have a dandy new mural!
Bill Clinton, Scoop Jackson, or the 2008 version of Hillary Clinton (she was more centrist then).
We need the return of Lincoln like we need the return of slavery and civil war. Trust me, we’re better off without them.
More broadly, the Great Presidents have been those who won wars. Not needing war is better even at the cost of some reputation, hmm?
If we can vote for fictional people, then I vote Lazarus Long.
Batman. But he’s not the president we deserve.
Louis Wu, with Teela Brown as his running mate.
If you’re going to have a two-party system, you have to have two viable & competent parties. Right now, the GOP is very good at winning elections (so, “viable”) and very bad at governing (so, “incompetent”). The Democrats are very bad at winning elections (possibly less than viable) and…well, if they can’t win legislative majorities, does it matter if they’re competent? (When they do, they’re not that competent either).
[Fans of the two parties can take a moment here to turn bright red in anger.]
If the GOP is to continue to be an acceptable big-tent party, it has to regain competence.
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[li]This means no longer only taking contrarian positions for cynical reasons.[/li](Examples of such: insisting that ectopic pregnancies are viable to win Vatican support; endorsing political corruption as “free speech,” unregulated mass media as “a free press,” and then insisting that you need the right to buy advertising from that wicked, wicked, media because otherwise they have too much power; Creationism; and AGW denial.)
[li]It has to be dragged by its ears away from the fake “religious” and “corporate” pseudo-academy built to teach bullshit.[/li][li]Learning when to make a list and when to just let it go. (Sorry, Opal.)[/li][/ul]
OK. So, the best candidate would be a Republican, but one not a movement conservative nor beholden to the oil companies. Because, as leader of the party he could drag the party away from doctrinaire Reaganist-Gingrichism, and back toward realism. So he has to be charismatic, and his own man.
And he has to be a realist on global warming.
The president we need now? Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Call your Congresscritter, call your state legislative whip, and get that constitutional amendment going. You have a month or two.
Failing that, I dunno, man.
Jed Bartlett was too much a self-important ass! A nightmare! Full of himself, an inveterate liar, lacking humility, honor, or a sense of proportion! I say nay to Bartlett!
I liked Matt Santos, though. Arnold Vinick was kind of all right.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
I mean, we’re pretty much headed that direction anyway. Might as well get it over with.
Steve Rogers, because President America is the President America needs.
You know, Al Gore wouldn’t be so bad.
Elon Musk. Sadly he is ineligible.
Can we pick dead people? LBJ. We need LBJ as president and need(ed) LBJ as senate majority leader back when the dems controlled congress.
Most of California’s problems were/are self-inflicted. I stand on my high place, look down, and whisper, “No.”
Seriously, I’ve been awed watching Brown wrestle entrenched and endemic problems for the last five years and been very, very impressed… when I never expected to be impressed by a California gubernator again.
I’d vote for Jon Stewart in a heartbeat.
Hmmm. The last few years of “old, cranky Steve” have made that less attractive, but maybe.
Maybe this thread should have a Café Society spin-off.
So long as there aren’t any regional wars for him to expand, I will agree.