# Who would make a worse president than George Bush? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499 "2004-11-02T04:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 2, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/1 "2004-11-02T04:38:16Z")
For me. GWB is somewhere above KIM Chong-il, and somewhere below Paris Hilton, on the “suitable for president” scale. Also, he’s higher than Carrot Top, lower than Bobcat Goldthwaite. I’d say about dead even with Gallagher. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/2 "2004-11-02T04:44:41Z")
John Kerry. 😛 D & R ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/3 "2004-11-02T04:48:13Z")
Michael Moore ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/4 "2004-11-02T04:49:03Z")
My manager. We’d all be screwed. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/5 "2004-11-02T04:53:15Z")
I think Michael Moore is a perfect example. Fine filmmaker, but evidence would suggest he’d be the worst national leader since Kyle’s Mom. Lots of people who are good at the jobs they’re currently doing would be unbelievably bad Presidents. ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/6 "2004-11-02T05:15:23Z")
Charles Manson…maybe ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/7 "2004-11-02T05:19:05Z")
His brother. Either of them. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/8 "2004-11-02T05:23:28Z")
Lyndon LaRouche or Ralph Nader ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/9 "2004-11-02T05:28:30Z")
John Ashcroft. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/10 "2004-11-02T05:33:04Z")
Dick Cheney. A charmless surly mean puppetmaster to a brainless sock puppet in big business’ deep pockets with a played-down heart condition? Jesus Fuck No. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/11 "2004-11-02T05:38:51Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Also, he’s higher than Carrot Top, lower than Bobcat Goldthwaite. I’d say about dead even with Gallagher. At least we would be amused. Worse? A second-term GWB. :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/12 "2004-11-02T05:40:36Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > John Kerry. > 😛 > > D & R Good one…we walked right into that 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/13 "2004-11-02T05:41:56Z")
Like Halloween candy, you kids just can’t get enough of it. ::shakes head:: ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/14 "2004-11-02T05:52:28Z")
Me. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/15 "2004-11-02T06:01:59Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Like Halloween candy, you kids just can’t get enough of it. ::shakes head:: Do you have any candy corn left? My sugar high is fading a little. 😃 ---
**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:** [November 2, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/16 "2004-11-02T06:13:41Z")
Vlad the Impaler—not just because he’s a homicidal tyrant, but because he’s dead. And we can’t even find his corpse. Other (bad) candidates, in no particular order… osama. Jane Fonda. Pat Buchanan. Kang. Wavy Gravy. Charles Ng. Most of the living Kennedy family. Edward Teller. (If for no other reasons than the second problem ol’ Alucard, above) Boris Yeltsin. (ibid) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/17 "2004-11-02T06:21:26Z")
[Mr. Jackson Kirk Grimes](http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BZZ91748) He’s this year’s United Fascist Union candidate. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/18 "2004-11-02T06:29:15Z")
Hillary Diane Rodham ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/19 "2004-11-02T06:29:31Z")
The kid from _Deliverance_. Carson Daly (you’d have to keep telling him “Rwanda did not play Aunt Esther”) Carson Kressley (one wrong “I never knew a straight guy so obsessed with Kashmir- that must be why they call you Perv- I think Islamabad influence on you” to Musharraf and it’s World War III) Colin Quinn (I don’t think this loudmouthed git has the ability to convince a starving dog to eat bacon but he seems to think he’s the second coming of Bill Hicks) Anne Heche- “I have decided to balance the budget by making up new numbers in my own language… if it’s Tuesday I must be lesbian” Robert Downey, Jr.- “The state of the Union address will commence once the riot in Cell Block H is settled” Tucker Carlson- imagine trying to stare down an al-Quaeda cell while wearing a bowtie Ashlee Simpson- “Guys, I’m sorry I messed up… I wanted to deploy the troops to Afghanistan, but the Congress like accidentally had them firebomb Utica NY and they accidentally used my signature and private security codes” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/20 "2004-11-02T06:31:38Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Dick Cheney. > > A charmless surly mean puppetmaster to a brainless sock puppet in big business’ deep pockets with a played-down heart condition? Pardon the slight hijack, but can anyone tell me just exactly what Cheney has done to earn the reputation as “mean?” (I mean aside from heading up a large corporation and serving past Republican presidents. We all know both of those are evil.) But I’m not talking evil, I’m talking “mean.” This reputation he has is so pervasive that I’d just like to know if anyone can point to any real, specific, mean thing he has done to anybody. I’ll bet nobody has a single, solitary example of his having ever been “mean” to anybody. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499.md?page=2)