Presidents' Day: If You Could Choose One Former President to Still Be in Office, Who Would It Be?

Ronald Reagan is way over rated. The old man was merely an actor and senile to boot. He wouldn't be elected today as the conservatives would consider him too liberal.
1) He raised taxes 11 times
2) He gave amnesty to illegal aliens
3) He raised our federal deficit from just under $1 TRILLION to $2.5 TRILLION
...and I can go on and on. Today's GOP glorify him but would never consider the Reagan Democrats (negotiate) and he'd be defeated in the primaries. That is the hypocrisy of the GOP.

You forgot how he messed up social security. After taking office he gave the rich such a huge tax break he couldn't come close to balancing the budget. So he took the millions or maybe even billions in the social security fund, which at that time stood alone. He added to the general fund where it is today and has been used to pay for the tax breaks and other pet projects of the republican presidents. If he had left it in it's own fund just think of the money in interest it would have earned and the republicans wouldn't be able to mess their pants trying to give it to wall street to invest.

Don't let me get started of JFK! Overrated? No one is more OVERRATED than him! I'm respectful of JFK, because of the office he held, but I could talk all day long on the things he did that we would find more than nefarious today!

the GOP are nothing but haters and they only know onw word and its two letters is NO

No is good, no to higher taxes, no to Obama care, no to the communist who are trying to ruin our nation, no to koolaid drinkers like yourself, no to the lazy government workers who are not worth our money, No to the rave that i gave you by mistake. No is very good

..and of Course Bill Clinton.

Instead of the two worst presidents the US ever had Reagan and Bush Clinton should have been included. Bring Bubba back.

Bush 43 would be my 2nd choice.

I guess there has to be someone with straw for brains.

you should not insult yourself, it is very unbecoming

ha HA HA HA HA HA HA POOPER DOOPER WHAT CHOICES.

Reagan wouldn't get elected today. The climate wouldn't allow for it. Reagan raised taxes 11 times, provided amnesty to illegals and took our deficit from just under $!.0T to over $2.5T. It is so easy to glorify decades after the fact but Reagan's strong suit is that he was an (actor) salesman which gave him the all important - REAGAN DEMOCRATS. That, my friend would not fly in today's climate because conservatives would consider him weak...

Say your joking

might as well have Bugs Bunny as either mentioned above

What does hubby think of Charles Manson, at least as Vice President?

Your husband is a great American

Thats more then some natural citizens do, so in my book he is better then some Americans

It was a different world when Reagan was President. He brought the country together. There was a lot of flag waving and pride in our country. He is really missed these days! Emmy

And the gas lines he created and all the weapons he gave to Iran that they used against us. And how about his trip to Berlin where he had to travel up and down the Berlin wall to find a piece that was still intact so he could posture and pose and say "tear down this wall".....which was mostly tore down before he got there. Must have been that senileness talking.

You must have been smoking some wacky weed during the Reagan Presidency! Gasoline dropped during Reagan--*ip **it! I know because I was there--in the service to be exact! You are talking about the 1973 OPEC created oil crisis. Long lines for gasoline, odd and even days for the right to even get in line-- Gasoline prices fell during Reagan's presidency (because of deflation). The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, after numerous talks between Gorbachev and Reagan. You can accuse Reagan of raising taxes, which he did. You can accuse Reagan of supporting amnesty, which he did. But the first thing you need to do is take a few history courses--preferably U.S. history!

he didnt bring anything together that was the start of the division this country now faces

Bill Clinton JFK and keep our current president

I think its a waste of time trying to bring back the past when there is so much that must be done for the future of this country and President Obama inherited the 8 years of all the George Walker Bush misdoings and bad decisions in office so I am going to stick with "none of the above" simply because reality is that all the rest have departed and each in their own way allowed slavery when it happened so what history is there to be so proud of that we would even contemplate bringing back a dead president? give me a break why don't we just go into 2012 with the re-election of President Obama so that minorities who will be in the majority, can be heard and all America, can a a President we know, comes from the real world who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth nor should we condemn him for not having done so.

Here dear drink your medication and you will get over your fantasy of Obama

whats the point of president day

so where is President Clinton

a reason for federal employees to get another day

Bush

Washington is the greatest president of all time, but in this time I would love to have Reagan back.

Any or all of them would be better then what we have now. After all I can remember 4 { yes I said four of them}

Actually George Washington would be fine. I like his advice to avoid foreign entanglements. The others are losers. Lincoln is the most overrated. He not only caused a probably avoidable war that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans but shut down the free press to help propagandize, jailing hundreds of journalists. I grant his high intelligence, but his idealism I question.

how else could it have been done?

george

I would have to say of the choices, George would be first, he was for very small central government. Next of the choices would be Reagan with a Conservative Congress. Choice not offered but like to have been was Thomas Jefferson.

I can't believe they even have GWB on this list! He was NOT a real Prez!! just a moron!!