Watching "The Roosevelts" - just looking at Wikipedia's entry on rankings of US presidents.

[NRaleighLiberal]

Starting with the administration following Teddy Roosevelt (whose policies were pretty left), looking at aggregate rankings -

Democratic presidents - 6, 2, 7, 11, 14 (tie), 27, 20 (tie), 14 (tie) - out of 43 of course. 27 is Carter.

Republican presidents - 22 (tie), 43, 31, 29 (tie), 8 (tie), 32, 26, 17, 22 (tie), 34. 43 is Harding, 34 is Dubya. 8 is Eisenhower.

Seems 2011 is the last year of this sort of analysis - this is an interesting chart.

Historians clearly see what we see - for the most part, Republican presidents are just disasters!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

[Kalidurga]

1. Eisenhower

could just as easily be a democrat today. He warned us about the MIC and didn't think taxing the rich was a cardinal sin.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Exactly.

[indepat]

3. A substantial number of present-day Democrat Congress-critters are a good bit right of Ike's

politics, policies, and governance.

[Kalidurga]

4. yep that's true as well

I think I actually do like Ike.

[NCarolinawoman]

5. ......and expanded social security to cover the middle class.

That is why the wacko right branded him a communist.

[UTUSN]

6. Some funnies from Part 2: "You have to remember: The president is SIX!" and

Alice said, &quot TR) wanted to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every baptism."

and

Toward the end of his tenure, TR is ruminating how greatness in presidents depends on their having had a war or great crisis, that nobody would know LINCOLN without the Civil War. And the narrator reads, &quot TR) had not had a war, had not had a great crisis. Some people thought HE WAS THE CRISIS!" Haha.