The 20 Worst Figures In American History

[Barney Gumble]

Righty blogglers are making a list of "Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murders, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history -- have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst were?"

http://www.rightwingnews.com/special/worstfigures.php

(Clinton makes it to #3)

What do DU'ers think the 20 worst are?

[samsingh]

1. #! is GW Bush

Oliver North
Rush
etc.

[jshafted]

3. A. Mitchell Palmer

Douglas MacArthur

[lpbk2713]

14. So many possibilities.........

1> Nixon 2> Agnew
3> Limbaugh 4> Gingrich
5> Reagan 6> Lott
7> Shrub I 8> Shrub II
9> Shrublet (Jeb) 10> Cruella Harris
11> CON-deleeza 12> Cheney
13> Asscroft 14> Rummy
15> Manson 16> Bundy
17> Ron Popeil 18> Heston
19> Rove 20> Quayle

[Born_a_Democrat]

2. Man does that Kettle TALK $HIT

ok...any site named "right-winged news" HAS to be fair and balanced...LOL

might as well call themselves "sons of HITLER"...please...

[Wwagsthedog]

4. tOM dElAY

can occupy at least 10 of the worst top 20 places on my list. For the other 10 worst spots on the list, take your pick of hundreds of others.
:evilfrown:

[Michael Daniels]

5. Moron who put the poll together can't even add

Makes a point about how he combined Julius Rosenberg and "The Rosenbergs" to make one total yet he totally misses that "John Walker" and "John Walker Lindh" are one and the same and then lists them as separate people.

The fact that Clinton ranks higher than Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy combined shows how much rational, logical thought was put into answering this poll.

[jfxgillis]

6. No, he's probably

talking about Soviet spy John Walker.

In any event, I nominate John C. Calhoun fot the 20-worst right-wingers list.

[Michael Daniels]

9. Oh. I didn't think of that possibility.

Thanks. Still an idiotic list though :o)

[Exultant Democracy]

7. Andrew Jackson is number 1 on my list

and then in no particular order

Joe McCarthy
J. Edgar Hoover
Jefferson Davis
Nixon
Strom Thurmond
Bush*
John Wilkes Booth
Nelson A. Miles

[Lithos]

8. A couple

In no special order

G.W. Bush
G. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Nixon
McCarthy
Warren G. Harding
J. Edgar Hoover
Kissinger
William Tweed (Tammany Hall, Tweed Ring)
William Randolf Hearst (Major cause of the Spanish-American War)
George Custer
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Bill Haywood
Charles Manson
John Wayne Gacy
Ted Bundy
Al Capone
Son of Sam
Benadict Arnold
Aldrich Ames

[anti_shrub]

10. I believe history will show

That Poppy Bush was the most evil man in US history. Almost every war or conflict in the last 20-odd years ties back to Poppy somehow. He was the head of the CIA, which at times is more shady than the Mafia, and it's clear he was running the White House during the St Ronnie years.

[LuLu550]

11. when I read "worst figures"

I thought you meant like Kate Smith or Rosemary Clooney or something.
LuLu

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I'm surprised Nixon made their list.

I figured he'd have been a big hero.

We can only pick 20? This is going to be tough to narrow down.

George W Bush
Richard Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
John Ashcroft
Trent Lott
Orin Hatch
Strom Thurmond
George Bush Sr.
Ronald Reagan
Nancy Reagan
Jerry Falwell
Pat Robertson
Rush Limbaugh
Oliver North
Newt Gingrich
Tom Ridge
Christine Todd Whitman
Gale Norton
Ken Lay
Timothy McVeigh

[thermodynamic]

13. Who are the Rosenbergs?

Didn't they give the Russians the nukes? If so, weren't they republican because they were clearly motivated by self-interest and lack of concern for their country and greed?! (this ain't sarcasm...)

[elcondor]

18. They were accused of spying for the Russians

and while most historians believe that Julius Rosenberg was probably a spy, there was no evidence that Ethel was. Both maintained their innocence until their deaths by electric chair. Many people believe that the Rosenbergs were victims of Cold War hysteria--when many people were accused of being Communist and/or spies, but were, as you know, innocent. For more information, I would visit: http://www.ncs.pvt.k12.va.us/ryerbury/2ros/2ros.htm

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Man, That Linked List Is Preposterous

The Rosenburgs and Hiss, and then Clinton and Carter.

What a bunch of retards were involved in putting that together.

Hey idiots! Ever heard of Al Capone? Bugs Moran? Lucky Luciano? John Gotti? John Gacy? Nast? Spiro Agnew? His pal, Bebe Roboso? Michael Milken?

But Carter and Clinton are at the top of the list. Unbelievable stupidity there.
The Professor

[whoYaCallinAlib]

16. Ronald Reagan. He re-energized a dying party.

He gave them a new life. They were heading down the toilet

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Unbelievable. So many of them are still alive.

You can tell these idiots are living in the present, and have no sense of history. They're comdemning people without benefit of actually seeing the results of what they've done/are doing.

I mean, I don't like AL Sharpton, but I'd never put him on a list of top 20 (or even top 1000) worst figures in American history. Nor Oswald, nor Jesse Jackson, nor Noam Chomsky.

You can tell by the list that these people are f-ing idiots. Even given the conservative bent, there are far better choices they could have made.

And of course, being that they are conservative, those choices would likely still be majority-wrong, but sheesh.

What a bunch of morans.