A presidential ranking from one of those libertarian curmudgeon book “Recarving Rushmore”.\u00c2\u00a0 How curmudgeonly are they?\u00c2\u00a0 So much so they rank John Tyler as #1.\u00c2\u00a0 As one might expect, they tear down presidents who are known by their initials.<\/p>\n
1\u00c2\u00a0 John Tyler
\n2\u00c2\u00a0 Grover Cleveland
\n3\u00c2\u00a0 Martin van Buren
\n4\u00c2\u00a0 Rutherford B. Hayes
\n5\u00c2\u00a0 Chester A Artur
\n6\u00c2\u00a0 Warren G Harding
\n7\u00c2\u00a0 George Washington
\n8\u00c2\u00a0 Jimmy Carter
\n9\u00c2\u00a0 Dwight D Eisenhower
\n10\u00c2\u00a0 Calvin Coolidge
\n11\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Bill Clinton
\n12\u00c2\u00a0 John Quincy Adams
\n13\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Zachary Taylor
\n14\u00c2\u00a0 Millard Fillmore
\n15\u00c2\u00a0 Benjamin Harrison
\n16\u00c2\u00a0 Gerald Ford
\n17\u00c2\u00a0 Andrew Johnson
\n18\u00c2\u00a0 Herbert Hoover
\n19 U.S. Grant
\n20\u00c2\u00a0 William Howard Taft
\n21\u00c2\u00a0 Theodore Roosevelt
\n22 John Adams
\n23\u00c2\u00a0 James Buchanan
\n24\u00c2\u00a0 Franklin Pierce
\n25 James Monroe
\n26\u00c2\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson
\n27\u00c2\u00a0 Andrew Jackson
\n28\u00c2\u00a0 James Madison
\n29\u00c2\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln
\n30 Richard Nixon
\n31\u00c2\u00a0 FDR
\n32\u00c2\u00a0 LBJ
\n33\u00c2\u00a0 George HW Bush
\n34 Ronald Reagan
\n35\u00c2\u00a0 JFK
\n36\u00c2\u00a0 George W Bush
\n37\u00c2\u00a0 James K Polk
\n38\u00c2\u00a0 William McKinley
\n39\u00c2\u00a0 Harry S. Truman
\n40 Woodrow Wilson<\/p>\n
Your Ron Paul interview with the authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n I suppose the most interesting item there is the explaination why they would not teach Ronald Reagan to kids the way Mike Huckabee would — as saving the world from the Disco Bandits that Jimmy Carter is unwilling to confront<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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