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.
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.
I’ve got Washington, Trump, Reagan, Coolidge, and McKinley as my top 5.
> 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.
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.
Presidential ratings.
Not ratings of Conservatives.
Washington
Jefferson
Jackson
Lincoln
Reagan
Trump.
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
The Bush’s weren’t conservative at all, they were and still are GLO-BULL-ISTS.