Check it out. Ulysses S. Grant is ranked higher than Ronald Reagan. My only quibble is that Reagan is on the list at all.
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Check it out. Ulysses S. Grant is ranked higher than Ronald Reagan. My only quibble is that Reagan is on the list at all.
I have to agree. Reagan was in the right place at the right time, but not a significant factor.
Off topic..but a boast of insignificance I want to make… My grandfather was born during Ulysses S.Grant’s presidency. And I knew my grandfather for 23 years. I know, it won’t get me into heaven,but it is wierd to have a connection to a person you knew that far back into history.
Oh, Thoms Paine should have been further up the list. He’s one person who was cheated from his rightful place in history because he dared to speak out against organized religion and the sacred scriptures. If most Americans understood his greatness and the fact that there would be no United States of America( yes, like Skippy..he coined that term) if it weren’t for him. He should be on our currency. His was also the first published voice in America to speak out against slavery.
Oh, again.. That’s Thomas..I can’t even spell my own middle name right..damned drugs!
Reminds me of a post someone made on usenet a while ago, imagining what it would be like if George Bush Jr. were president during the civil war.
April 10th,1861 10 am: Confederates attack Fort Sumter.
10:15 am: President Bush receives telegram that Fort Sumter has been attacked.
10:15-10:30 am: Bush continues to read “My Pet Slave” to the children at Tara Manor, one of Bush largest campaign contributors. Co-president Dick Cheney whisked to an undisclosed location.
October 1st, 1861: Bush declares war on the Confderates. Retakes Fort Sumter. Declares victory. Dismisses criticism that he has left Jefferson Davis in power.
October 15th, 1861: Povisional Confederate government, staffed mostly with Northern neocon carpetbaggers who have trouble getting real jobs, makes its headquarter in Fort Sumter. Their effective jurisdiction- a 300 yard radius from the fort. They lovingly call their fiefdom the “Geen Zone”
November 1st, 1861: Bush argues that the Mexicans are responsible for the bombing of Fort Sumter.
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I have to agree with you and comment #1.
Well, good — they asked historians. I thought the list was all going to be based on Web voting, and Freeper ballot-box stuffing was going to make lead to a top three of W, Reagan, and Alan Keyes.
Steve M — actually, The Atlantic had a “popularity” list, too. Some rightie bloggers had their readers bump up the voting for Ronald Reagan.
Predictable crew.
Agree with Swami on Thomas Paine – surely more significant than Saint Ronnie – righties probably barely know about Paine. Paine’s writings during the Revolution enjoyed a wide audience, comparable in size, proportionally, to the number of people in our time viewing the Super Bowl. He was a major catalyst for the Revolution.
” The amiable architect of both the conservative realignment and the Cold War’s end.”
That would be “amiable” as in “we begin bombing in 5 minutes.”
And I guess the Right has decided that Communism works and it took the second banana from Bedtime for Bonzo to break it, even though it looked to me at the time like it collapsed under its own weight, with our side mostly looking on in amazement.
But I think he belongs on the list for the conservative realignment. Which is broken now, but considering that the American Republic might never recover, I’d call it influential.