Humphrey, McGovern or Mondale which would have been best president?

[WI_DEM]

Three great Americans and great liberals--which one would have been the best president?

[1gobluedem]

1. McGovern

Absolutely.

[Tace]

2. Yeah, I Agree

[immoderate]

20. Me three. McGovern

--IMM

[Lenape85]

3. I'd have to agree

[Lenape85]

9. And BTW

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/election/index.php?nav_action=election&nav_subaction=overview&campaign_id=170

Look at the ad "McGovern turnaround. Certainly is prophetic isn't it

[candy]

4. Adlai Stevenson-----sorry! Humphrey #2 IMHO. n/t

[LSparkle]

8. Yeah!!!!

I'm too young to know the particulars about him, but my dad STILL admires him and mentions him whenever politics comes up.

[candy]

23. Adlai was brilliant ,witty,and a phenomenal speaker. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

5. McGovern

He was the 1st guy a canvassed for in 72. The parallels to Bush/Kerry are eerily similar.

[Lefty48197]

6. Fritz Mondale

because he was such a damn good VP!

[MasonJar]

7. They would all have been better than what we got instead. I'm

just not knowledgeable enough about any of them to know if it's possible to know the answer to that challenging query.

[Cuban_Liberal]

10. Humphrey, IMO.

They'd have all been great, though.

:)

[G_j]

11. McGovern

by far

[JI7]

12. Humphrey

[David__77]

13. There is absolutely NO doubt - George McGovern!

Humphrey was horrible on Vietnam. There's a good chance he would have been worse than Nixon in perpetuating that criminal enterprise. That reason alone is enough to disqualify him from progressive support. Mondale was too much aligned with Carter for me personally. He approved of Carter's deregulation and laissez-faire policies that I feel opened that way for the 1980s "free market" cult.

McGovern was principled and defended the existence of a social and democratic state committed to the general welfare of the people.

[David__77]

14. dupe...

...

[Rowdyboy]

15. Humphrey and Stevenson first

Then Mondale, then McGovern.

[Lenape85]

16. But Weaver and Bryan own them all

[flaminbats]

17. McGovern or Mondale..

if McGovern had been elected there would of been no Watergate, an immediate end to the war, and national healthcare. One interesting result is that McGovern would probably not had been re-elected, meaning no Jimmy Carter..but also would of meant a Democratic President in the 80's.

If Mondale had won he would have been re-elected. The national debt be insignificant and there would of been no war in Iraq. Unfortunately this would of meant no Bill Clinton, and perhaps a Republican President in the 90's.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. what about dukakis?

where do you think he'd fall on this list?

[Lenape85]

19. I dunno

He would have been a solid president, probably better than Clinton

[hyphenate]

25. Dukakis

would have been a very worthy president. It would have been a different world if he'd been elected.

[UdoKier]

21. McGovern.

By far the most visionary and most human.

[American Tragedy]

22. McGovern by far

Partisan affiliation aside, he was one of the finest men ever to run for president.

Ironically, he lost to one of the worst.

Humphrey on the other hand deserved to lose, for his slavish devotion to Johnson's disastrous foreign policy. He is perhaps the greatest example of a Democrat who defied both morality and political expediency, and was soundly defeated for it.

At that time my father was a young man, whose close friends had returned home from Vietnam in boxes or with permanent injuries. He knew he was likely on the verge of being drafted too, possibly dying for a hopeless cause that he deeply opposed.

Nixon implied that he had a plan to end the war soon, which certainly sounded better than continuing the current policy, of which Humphrey was an avid supporter. Humphrey finally tried to reverse himself at the last minute, but was too late for anyone to believe him.

So my father, a lifelong Democrat and hardcore liberal, feeling betrayed by his own party, voted for a Republican for the first and only time in his life, out of sheer desperation. Of course, we now know that Nixon's plan only ended the war after wasting tens of thousands more American lives.

I used to make fun of him for voting for Nixon, but now that I am at the same hazardous age he was, his logic is painfully understandable.

[hyphenate]

24. McGovern No doubt eom