A presidential ranking from one of those libertarian curmudgeon book “Recarving Rushmore”.  How curmudgeonly are they?  So much so they rank John Tyler as #1.  As one might expect, they tear down presidents who are known by their initials.

1  John Tyler
2  Grover Cleveland
3  Martin van Buren
4  Rutherford B. Hayes
5  Chester A Artur
6  Warren G Harding
7  George Washington
8  Jimmy Carter
9  Dwight D Eisenhower
10  Calvin Coolidge
11  Bill Clinton
12  John Quincy Adams
13  Zachary Taylor
14  Millard Fillmore
15  Benjamin Harrison
16  Gerald Ford
17  Andrew Johnson
18  Herbert Hoover
19 U.S. Grant
20  William Howard Taft
21  Theodore Roosevelt
22 John Adams
23  James Buchanan
24  Franklin Pierce
25 James Monroe
26  Thomas Jefferson
27  Andrew Jackson
28  James Madison
29  Abraham Lincoln
30 Richard Nixon
31  FDR
32  LBJ
33  George HW Bush
34 Ronald Reagan
35  JFK
36  George W Bush
37  James K Polk
38  William McKinley
39  Harry S. Truman
40 Woodrow Wilson

Your Ron Paul interview with the authors.

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.

As for Mount Rushmore — they ran out of money before it was finished — maybe  we should really go ahead and finish it, shouldn’t we?

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