Favorite Republican (seriously)

[Taverner]

There have been a few good Republicans. None around now, but even post-Teddy some have been good.

Case in point, Bob Packwood and Mark Hatfield. Yes, I know Packwood was a nasty harasser, but in terms of legislation, he's been on the right side of history. He and Hatfield voted against Vietnam before it was cool to do so, voted for civil rights, basically they were the last of the good guys in the GOP.

[BrotherBuzz]

1. Pete McCloskey

Bar none.

on edit: I notice he's only endorsed Democratic candidates for congress this year. He supports Charlie Brown running against Doolittle in CA04.

Woo hoo!

[pscot]

2. The one buried in my back yard

N/T

[nini]

3. .

good one. :D

[trof]

4. Probably Ike.

He was the national father figure.
More like grandfather figure for me.
Hero of the war, and all that.
Not really a terrific president, but maybe didn't do too much damage.
And he did not like his VP, Dick Nixon.
Most important thing he did (IMHO) was warn us against (and coin the phrase) the military-industrial complex.
That, in and of itself, says a lot for the man.

[smtpgirl]

17. Eisenhower, excellent choice

so much before his time, I would take Ike any time, any place

Nixon
Reagan
Bush
Bush

What ever happened to the republican anyway?

[KamaAina]

5. Stepdad (R-It's His Birthday Today)

I am still trying to wrap my head around the concept of the same Mom who took me to a McGovern rally in '72 being married to one... :eyes:

[ohiosmith]

6. :

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

7. Bruce Willis has been interesting, as was Eisenhower...

Mind you, I still don't like Kelsey Grammer, even though he's been in Star Trek TNG ( :wow: ), X3 (of all things!), and made that surprisingly amusing ripoff of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In".

[Karenca]

8. Ike

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. I had to think for a while on this one

I was just going to cop out and say Lincoln or TR but how about someone like Wendell Willkie? Sure he opposed some of the New Deal policies but he was an outspoken supporter along with Elenore Roosevelt for Civil Rights long before it was cool to do that. I still had to go back 60 years though. Or how about someone like John Lindsay, he leaned pretty far left as far as Republicans are concerned.

There has to be more but I'm having a really hard time thinking of some

[Anarcho-Socialist]

11. I agree

There were a number of socially-liberal Republicans from that era.

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. Lincoln?

I can't think of a single decent national-level Republican that hasn't been dead for more than a hundred years.

[CatholicEdHead]

12. Former MN Governor Arne Carlson

He won his last term as an Independent Republican when as a still sitting governor the party rejected him at the GOP state convention. He does not get along with the current party very well.

[cobalt1999]

13. Gerald Ford

Probably the only republican who is a worse golfer than I am. For that alone, I like him. That and Carter had a lot of good things to say about him means something.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Ford, the dude that pardoned Nixon?

For that alone, he's dropped from my list.

[Allenberg]

14. I'm also going to have to say Ike.

[Aristus]

15. My wife. Isn't she beautiful?:

Actually, she just calls herself a Republican. She doesn't vote, hates Bush and the war, and if I had to peg her politically, it would be as a right-leaning moderate Democrat. She comes from a wealthy born-again family, so clinging to the image of oneself as a Republican is probably in her genes. She's intractible on some issues (abortion) and VERY progressive on others (war, death penalty, etc.)

Not all Republicans are bad. ;-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. She's lovely Aristus...

:hi:

[smtpgirl]

16. Connie Morella former Congresswoman

from Montgomery County, MD

[yellowdogintexas]

18. Howard Baker, U S Senate, retired. nt

[PVnRT]

19. It's all been downhill since Big Teddy

n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Vincent Gallo

Buffalo '66 is a killer film.

[NewWaveChick1981]

21. Hard to say.

I can't think of a Repuke I've liked, so I'll go with Abraham Lincoln. :)

[femmocrat]

22. Senator John Heinz

He was my congressman for awhile too.

[L A Woman]

24. Even though you said (seriously)....

I still laughed!!! :rofl:

Olympia Snowe isn't too evil.

[WhollyHeretic]

26. Jim Jeffords

Though he's not one anymore.