If they had to run TODAY, NONE of our "best presidents" could get elected

[SoCalDem]

Family issues would sink many of them, religious attitudes, or lack or religiosity would sink some of them, looks would sink a LOT of them, and they would not even be top-tier candidates..

Think of the ones whom YOU figure to be the best of the ones so far.. How would your favorite stack up?

Eisenhower would be swiftboated mercilessly and his "affair" with Kay would be an issue.. He "waffled" between running as a democrat or republican for a while, and that would be brought up against him.. He had health issues..he was too "grandfatherly"...he was BALD (recoil in horror and run away :)..)

FDR... he was handicapped, so health issues would be front & center..his wife was homely & uppity, and had a "smart-mouth on her".. He had a mistress and she's rumored to have had girlfriends.. He's too rich.. He SMOKES !!!!

Truman... he swears & he has no manners..His wife looks old..his daughter's a no-talent wannabee.. He's a war-monger.. He's old-looking..he's too bossy..

Kennedy..He's too good looking..too rich.. too smooth..and he's a ladies' man..his wife is FRENCH..and she spends too much money on clothes.. those little kids are props.. and of course the swiftboaters would challenge his war experiences..

Jefferson...obvious

Lincoln..He hates the south..he's ugly..he's a bad dresser..his wife is fat..

We know too much about these people than is healthy for us all and we ask to know too much more ...things we don't even have a right to know..and I only wish we could go back to learning what their philosophy of governance was, and less about who they pray to or who they sleep with..or don't.. or who cuts their hair and how much they charge..or where they get their clothing, or what kind of underwear they buy..

Familiarity breeds contempt.. and we are a very contemptuous bunch