Historical Ratings of Presidents Reviewed by Conservatives?

August 10, 2018 | Me

[MinorityRepublican]

I'm looking for historical ratings of Presidents from a Conservative source. Most I've read are done by "liberal" political scientists. One example? Jimmy Carter ranked higher than George W. Bush? C'mon, that's preposterous.

[Responsibility2nd]

Preposterous? Don’t be so sure. Some Freeper may be along soon to show greater support for Carter then W.

There is some serious hatred for shrub around here lately. I don’t think he was all that bad. Better than Gore obviously. And I don’t think Carter was all that bad either. He certainly was nowhere as near as bad as Johnson or Clinton or Obama.

[aynrandfreak]

You could start one here. 44 points for 1st place, down to 1 for last (can only vote for Grover Cleveland once), then someone just has to add up the scores.

[MinorityRepublican]

You could start one here. 44 points for 1st place, down to 1 for last (can only vote for Grover Cleveland once), then someone just has to add up the scores.

That's a great idea! Would be neat to see how Presidents are ranked according to FReepers.

[Dilbert San Diego]

So what criteria do we use to rate and rank presidents?

How effective they were in wartime, for those who presided during war? How effective they were in passing legislation, regardless of whether we as conservatives agree with those policies represented by legislation?

Just rank based on ideology? In that case, many of us would.put Reagan first.

[Responsibility2nd]

I agree. I think most conservatives would consider Reagan to be the greatest conservative president ever. But then who is number two? Donald Trump? Richard Nixon? One of the New World Order Bushes?

I’m thinking Eisenhower.

[RainMan]

My top 5 would be (best first) Jackson, Washington, Trump, Reagan, John Adams, in that order. Bottom 5 would be (worst first) Obama, FDR, Clinton, LBJ, Wilson. Logic being, Jackson was the original kick the courts ass President, he is the only one that balanced the budget, and he kept us from having a Central Bank. Washington ... created the path for the rest. Trump is doing things I never thought I would see accomplished, and even more than Reagan, who reversed the slide but gave us Bush the Elder (spit). Adams created a lot of the original infrastructure.

Obama never should have been pResident, and created divisiveness, weaponized the bureaucracy. FDR created the welfare state, Clinton just was a sleaze, LBJ's great society is a disaster, and Wilson gave us the idea that turned into the UN (and he was the father of progressive presidents.)

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve got Washington, Trump, Reagan, Coolidge, and McKinley as my top 5.

[Leaning Right]

> Jimmy Carter ranked higher than George W. Bush? <

No doubt about it. Carter was an incompetent. But Carter didn’t involve us in not one, but two Vietnams. That’s W’s legacy.

But I’m not done yet. FDR had Pearl Harbor. And then FDR decided to utterly crush Germany and Japan. And that’s exactly what happened. Nazism was ground into dust, as was Japanese imperialism.

W had his own Pearl Harbor: 9/11. And so W had the opportunity - and the duty - to utterly crush radical Islam. But, no. W instead told us that “Islam is peace”.

Carter’s errors are minor compared to W’s. The West will pay for W’s mistakes for decades to come.

[be-baw]

W’s. record speaks for itself. He had to destroy the economy in order to save it, and he got us embroiled in Iraq on a false claim. What did that cost us? 3 trillion?

[Carriage Hill]

Giving away the Panama Canal was no big deal, was it?

[napscoordinator]

LBJ was a million times worse then Clinton.

[morphing libertarian]

I agree about W but I would add Iran and inflation to carter’s woes. He was the first to be able to take on islam and he sat in the wh 444 days and peed his pants.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Only two decent ones I’ve seen in my lifetime were Reagan and Trump.

Eisenhower, though before my time was too swampy for me, and I hate being continually bludgeoned by the left for his crack about the “military-industrial complex”. Also he was too anti-Paton and too closely involved with the Russian give away after WWII.

I never liked Nixon’s China policy, but Watergate now seems quaint. Still, he was ultimately a swamp creature who sold us out to the Chinese.

[jospehm20]

Bush earned much of the hate but he was a much better choice than either Gore or Kerry would have been.

[rebel25]

Neither Washington or adams would make my list to federalist for me. in no particular order Trump, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, Jeffeeson.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Andrew Jackson, unrepentant slave owner and founder of the Democratic Party (according to Dinesh D’Souza)?

“The film then switches to examining and criticizing the history of the Democratic Party, from Andrew Jackson to the present day. D’Souza is portrayed going into a basement archive of the DNC Headquarters where he reveals secrets of the party’s history.” Hillary’s America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary%27s_America:_The_Secret_History_of_the_Democratic_Party

[Sasparilla]

Presidential ratings.
Not ratings of Conservatives.
Washington
Jefferson
Jackson
Lincoln
Reagan
Trump.

[LS]

This historian hasn’t done a scale per se, although you can find Constitutional “grades” in my Politically Incorrect guide to the Presidents from Washington to Taft.

But, a plain ranking would be

1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Reagan
4. Coolidge
5. Trump
6. Harding
7. Cleveland
8. Jefferson
9. Polk
10. Monroe
11. Ike
12. TR
13. McKinley
14.Arthur
15. Jackson

The last two would be
49. Carter
50. Obama

[smokingfrog]

Carter was horrible. Fortunately, Reagan was able to get things back on track. Obama was largely incompetent but managed to screw us over big time with ACA when the Dems controlled congress.