Ronald Reagan Rated as Best President of Modern Era, Obama Worst

Dignitas News Service ^ | July 2, 2014 | Paul M Winters

[ConservativeStatement]

Someone really thinks Ike was the worst president since WW2?

[TonyM]

I have only been so fortunate to meet one U.S. president in my life, and I so glad that was Ronald Reagan.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Sanity returns to the American people...

[oldbrowser]

The people under 50 YO favor Obama while the people over 50 YO favor Romney.

The younger the respondent the more they favor Obama. It's going to get worse!

[laplata]

Washington remains the very best. Reagan is right up there with the best.

[glennaro]

We are indeed privileged to have lived during the time when Ronald Reagan was president. He was truly a great man and he loved America and Americans.

[muir_redwoods]

I would rank them as follows:

Reagan
Eisenhower
Truman
Bush II
Kennedy *
Ford
Bush I
Clinton
Nixon
Johnson
Carter
Obama

*Kennedy gets the benefit of the doubt due to such a short term.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The younger the respondent the more they favor Obama. It's going to get worse!"

Not necessarily. Remember that Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra were all liberals as young men. Reagan and Sinatra were fierce believers in the "New Deal" and FDR.

When asked by daughter Nancy in the late 60s why her Dad had changed his politics, Frank famously replied "The older you get the more conservative you get".

One of Churchill's famous quotes goes something like this: "Show me a young man who is a conservative and I'll show you a man with no heart. Show me an old man who is a liberal and I'll show you a man with no head"...

[Blood of Tyrants]

In 20 short years we went from the best to the worst.

[Parley Baer]

Not a bad list. Kennedy was Conservative on most issues but liberal on some. One has to remember that the media gave its full support to the dimoKKKRATS and tried to tear down the Republicans.

[oldbrowser]

One of Churchill's famous quotes goes something like this: "Show me a young man who is a conservative and I'll show you a man with no heart. Show me an old man who is a liberal and I'll show you a man with no head"...

Here's hoping.

[Moonman62]

Reagan won landslides and brought a lot of Republicans with him, yet the GOPe hates him.

[cld51860]

Yes, obviously a different country back then. I can proudly say Ronaldus Magnus was the first president I voted for.

[Stayfree]

The first order of business for our next president:
1)Remove all of Obama's executive orders
2)Require all future presidents to provide an original birth certificate
Sign a document under penalty of perjury that he is not a Marxist nor a Muslim, but a believer in God, Judeo-Christian principles and the right to keep and bear arms...among others.

[Ray76]

One loved the United States and its ideals, the other hates the United States and wants to fundamentally transform it, i.e. abolish its ideals.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"One loved the United States and its ideals, the other hates the United States and wants to fundamentally transform it, i.e. abolish its ideals."

One believed in the shining city on the hill. The other is trying to turn the lights off in that city....

[skinkinthegrass]

Why just stop @ WWII? ...why not the 20th century?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Hey Zero, you might want to put some ice on that.

[SES1066]

*Kennedy gets the benefit of the doubt due to such a short term.

It may surprise you that Ford's term was 5+ months shorter than Kennedy's;
Kennedy: 01/20/61 to 11/22/1963 = 1,036 days
G. Ford : 08/09/74 to 01/20/1977 = 895 days

A difference of 141 Days.

Of course add all of the rancor following Nixon and Watergate and I think Ford did as well as can be expected, actually better!

[jjsheridan5]

The critical number is Reagan’s strength with independents. Strong, conservative politicians appeal to independent voters, even moreso than “moderate” democrats like Kennedy and Clinton. RINO’s have virtually no appeal among this group.

For decades, the mantra from the left (especially within the Republican party), has been that conservatives have a disadvantage with independent (erroneously viewed as “moderate”) voters, when the fact is that the exact opposite is true.

The McCain’s and Romney’s win primaries because Republican voters are duped into thinking that “moderate” == electable, when, in fact, the opposite is generally true.