Are you fucking serious? Ford, Carter, and Clinton are no William Taft (granted Ford was the biggest fucking klutz on the planet).
I'm trying to figure out your angle here. Is it that some of those guys are better looking than others?...because I don't think that'll end well for you. Just sayin'...
Tell me something, would FDR even be considered a candidate today? No fucking way. A man in a wheelchair is a sign of weakness in the eyes of most.
And Washington wouldn't have been elected today because that Vermont hillbilly had wooden teeth. This just in, we also don't shit in a bowl and dump it into the street anymore either. Things tend to change from century to century. Tell me you knew...
Reagan was a crowd pleaser and by no means was THE best candidate for the presidency.
Who was better? Carter? MONDALE?!
Reagan was a great President because of his speaking and leadership abilities, which were similar to those of Bill Clinton. I don't really give a fuck what a President's views are on topics he can't change (read: ghey marriage, abortion, etc) as long as he's a strong leader who projects a positive image of America. Clinton did a great job of this, as did Reagan. Bush I and Bush II...not so much. This is one of the main reasons that I'm leaning towards voting for Fred Thompson in '08. Every time I hear the guy speak, even if I don't agree with him 100%, he sounds like an intelligent man of conviction who knows how to convey a message to people. Well, that and who am I trying to kid...I loved him in Die Hard II.
There are REALLY a lot of fucking intelligent people out there who can make good decisions for the US, but they are not marketable and they do not have the resources to compete with the deep pockets of the candidates of today. Its really simple, we haven't elected a TRUE person who can run the country like it should be for nearly 50 years.
Wrong again, dipshit. They don't run for the presidency because they can make substantially greater money in the private sector without going pre-maturely gray once they find out about Roswell, who shot Kennedy, and that Vince Foster and Chandra Levy died in a bizarre murder/suicide.
People also don't run for President just because they aren't attractive, they also don't run because of all of the dirt that's pulled up on them. Thompson, a lawyer prior to being a senator, is a perfect example. As soon as he announces that he's going to run, his opponents will start bashing him by naming "unsavory" people that he defended
30 years ago. I mean, it's about as relevant as the Whitewater bs was to Bill Clinton being qualified to run the White House. No one, other than the media, who have to report something new every day even when there's no story, gives a shit about any of that stuff.