I'M 'TAGGING' Alex Massie in this one after taking part in his most 'overrated' and 'underrated' US President poll.
I'd like to ask: Who is the greatest candidate never to be President? Like Mr Massie's poll, choose three and a brief justification.
I'm going with...
Robert F. Kennedy - Had Bobby never been shot, the Reagan Democrats may never have existed. Supported enterprise zones, now a policy of the right.
Barry Goldwater - Perhaps the last great believer in the constitution and Federalism.
Jack Kemp - Had he declared his candidacy earlier in the 1988 campaign you never know.
Sunday, 11 May 2008
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William T Sherman; Adlai Stevenson.
Adlai certainly had enough shots! I think his old man did as well.
I thought I was going to get my first Henry Wallace nomination!
Hamilton - too much an advocate of central power, but nevertheless a man of brilliance (and, of course, an Anglophile).
Daniel Webster - the greatest of the antebellum politicians, a magnificent orator, a passionate advocate of Union.
Goldwater - a man before his time - but his campaign and his strength formed the future of the Right in America.
Hamilton - what a great choice. My wife is a huge fan of Hamilton. I often claim Hamilton was a Scot rather than an America, although I'm told that his Scottish father may never have been his father at all.
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