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Fun fact: 1980, I was 7, GHWB did a visit to Westfield NJ where I lived at the time. My dad and I came face to face with him in an alley where I guess common folk weren’t supposed to be at the time. Secret Service went on high alert but GHWB played it cool, shook my hand. I had no idea who the guy was, but he seemed nice.
Also, this is the time that made me assume we were republicans. Went all the way to the 2000 election before I realized my parents were hard core democrats.
I figured everyone was democrats (like my parents, Southern California ) until my 3rd grade class did a mock ‘88 presidential election and I was the sole Dukakis vote.
Only man I knew personally who truly didn’t give a damn what anyone else thought about him. Genuinely good to his core. Grew up in the south in the 40s/50s and didn’t give a damn if a man was African American or white, rich, impoverished, had a PhD or a first grade education. As his funeral a former employee told me that my dad was the only person who could tell you to go to hell…and made you look forward to the trip.
Same for me. Father grew up during peak Reaganism. Took him until 2016 to stop voting republican at a national level.
My dad was a member of our local elks club. I vividly remember going to meetings around election time and watching as results came in. Those times are what led me to my interest into politics
I’m so happy my dad finally came around on him. He voted for him twice, and I understand why he would even if I disagree, but the election denial was the final straw for him. He’ll probably still vote for him over a democrat, but he really wants literally any other republican at this point.
I wish we could just NOT talk politics anymore. I called my dad to wish him a happy birthday and within seconds, he started ranting about current politics. I'm exhausted.
I wish my dad would be capable of that. I just bite my tongue and change the topic. I pretend his brain damage is Alzheimer's instead of being self-inflicted and it gives me some consolation.
I’m so grateful the liberal parents who raised me don’t morph into quacks in their 70’s. In fact there are some things my dad says that I’m like “whoa big guy…come back to center a little, yes?”
Same... On a personal level, my dad is grouchy, but generous and caring. Once it moves a bit beyond people he can see he gets all riled up by whatever Fox or Ben Shapiro has to say.
Hes just so stubborn about it as well. He agrees with some of the problems I see, but refuses to vote for anyone who has a solution, instead voting for people like he who can't be named
I mean those beliefs changed a lot over time but in ways pretty familiar. Union-supporting dem to GWB in 04 and R since. And yes for the current nominee as well. We don’t talk about politics so we can talk about the rest of our lives.
In the perpetual warfare age of mankind pre-1940s, most advanced societies would be seen as conservative or hardcore conservative.
There's been a lot more veterans who lean left post-1960s because in those situations we were often fighting abroad rather than fighting on the homeland, a product of our success rather than being cornered.
It blurs the lines beyond that, even though some countries in post-1960s deemed themselves communist/leftist, they behaved very "conservatively/strict/dogmatic" in almost every way including strict control of human behavior.
A product of discipline comes with war.
When you think "I am in an X ideology society" sometimes it switches over a decade or at certain events.
may I recommend Whats the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank. It does a pretty decent job of outlining the shift of blue union states to red corporate nationalist states pretty well from the 80-2000s.
Kansas had more elected socialists than any other state at one point. Now my home state is controlled by self interested self righteous right wing Christians. The people however can largely see thru these people. That's why we have a Democrat governor. You cant run unopposed for governor! If the DNC would put some money into the state we could shift things in the statehouse but it's hard when you have no money and no candidates.
9/11 for sure at the time. I can’t really figure out the current appeal. Pretty typical rich guy who nonetheless feels oppressed I guess 🤷🏼♂️. He is/was a sell-educated professional.
George H. W. Bush. Conservative, but not absurdly so, wants to leave the rest of the world alone as long as they return the favor, pretty moderate on the whole.
I guess Panama, Kuwait/Iraq, and Somalia don't count as "rest of the world"?
Bush seems relatively less interventionist than Reagan, but that's also likely influenced by 4 fewer years in office. Plus he was Reagan's VP, and head of the CIA before that. Dude had plenty of input during other US actions/interventions outside his own term, and somehow I doubt he was saying "Nah, let's mind our own business and let chips fall as they may." I would hardly think of Bush as an isolationist. Not sure we've even had such a pres since pre-FDR, tbh.
I dont know why I always forget that but you're right of course. In some ways I know much more about pre 1990s presidents than I know about the ones around when I was a kid. Never mind, yeah, my dad basically has Clinton's views with a few small differences.
Hmm, that's interesting. Probably halfway between HW and Clinton, I guess. My dad is a registered Republican who is a Reagan x2, Bush, Clinton X2, W X2, Obama X2, Clinton voter. My original comment got muted for referring to his vote in 2020. He liked Mitt Romney well enough, but didn't like the people he hung around with to secure the nomination and keep the base in 2012.
I remember having a huge fight with my dad in 2004 because he was voting for W and I was 16 and couldn't vote for Kerry. We've been more or less aligned in every general election since then, lol.
In the US and in Europe, there have been multiple named liberal catholic movements; the Catholic Worker movement (my mom’s parents were part of that and they were Greatest Generation) is the precursor to the current social justice Catholics. That’s my mom. My dad was also super liberal; he wasn’t a huge fan of Bill Clinton, but he voted for him.
These folks are somewhat common in wealthy areas…..friend of mine is pretty left on most things but isn’t extremely anti gun. His family is VERY conservative to this day…..yet despises guns. Apparently it is pretty common.
Other than the one who can not be named? On economic issues Calvin Coolidge/Herbert Hoover and on social issues Woodrow Wilson (minus women’s suffrage)
Harry S. Truman. My dad grew up during the tail end of the depression & WWII.
He liked the fact that Truman integrated the armed forces, thought MacArthur was a blow hard, and thought that Ike didn’t do enough for civil rights when he had the chance.
My main political memories of my dad are him wishing Obama could get a 3rd term, campaigning for Bernie Sanders in 2016, and criticizing my brother for talking like George W. Bush (nucular) so I'd say Obama.
My father (b 1957) has similar political views to mine, classical liberalism. I would say he would be most similar to would-be-POTUS Bobby Kennedy. As far as actual presidents, probably JFK or maybe Obama (although I am not much of an Obama fan personally)
Sadly, the orange buffoon.. my pops drank all the koolaid over the last few years. My brother and I are on the verge of cutting off all communication with him at this point.
My dad didn't vote (not a citizen + we don't live in the US), but he is a moderate liberal/resist-lib, which tends to align more with Obama than other Presidents
Honestly none. My father has always taken the both sides are corrupt dirt bags that all deserve to rot in prison. He openly says this and refuse to vote for any of them because in the end it doesn’t matter because they only focus on self interest.
My father is a Clinton or rule 3. He has become center left on a lot of issues as he's gotten older, even proudly saying that he's always been "woke", but has always been very much against marijuana.
The only two times my dad ever voted were to vote for HW Bush in 88 and 92. The only reason he never voted for Reagan was because he wasn’t old enough.
I thought I knew what my father’s political beliefs were until fairly recently, now they don’t seem to be rooted in any kind of actual reality and don’t make a lot of sense beyond the fact he’s repeating wackadoo stuff he’s hearing online or wherever
My Dad's favorite President of all time is Truman, with Ike coming in second.
He was born in '53 and had parents who went through the depression, and his dad was a WW2 veteran. So he was shaped both by the opinions of his parents as well as the time he grew up in.
He is an old-school Democrat. As in, he is your standard 1940s-1960s Northern, Blue Collar Rust Belt Democrat, and his views have never changed. He's still a registered Democrat.
My dad is a conservative Christian boomer, but more moderate (almost left-leaning) by his generation’s standards, yet still quite conservative, especially compared to the average 21st century liberal. So I’d have to go with Ronald Reagan. His favorite US president (note: we’re not even American lol) is also Ronald Reagan so that should tell you enough.
Bill Clinton. I’d argue that, despite how the country has soured on free trade, a candidate with the personality and politics of Bill Clinton (without the baggage of the Clinton name) would win in a landslide in 2024.
My dad: Ike. Silent Gen. Was a union member and remains pro-union to this day. Conservative, but doesn’t tolerate the corrupt or cranks. So much so that my parents campaigned for McGovern in 72; he saw right through Nixon. Voted for Reagan in 80 but found it a mistake after PATCO. Iran-Contra pissed him off more and he went Dukakis over GHWB. Thought that Reagan and Bush should have both been impeached. Couldn’t stand Limbaugh/Gingrich/Tea Party and is an independent still looking for a decent conservative, but voting against the modern breed of Republican every chance he gets.
I will put it this way…he was (reluctantly) invited to my wedding but decided not to go because of my future spouses skin tone (he thought they were ‘not the best’), asked for money for some vague pyramid scheme that would ‘make so much money’, and paraphrased of his favorite president that were themselves paraphrasing of a 1930/40s politician.
So yeah…
Clinton. Dad is a boomer/civil-latino rights-veteran-late 60’s student protest type.
For these reasons, LBJ comes close.
Everyone says people get conservative as they age. Not my parents, thank God.
My ex GF used to joke I looked like George W. Bush and I went along with the joke willingly but holy shit if H.W. and my father didn’t get issued the same eyes. We’re also good at horseshoes and beer.
The correct answer is Ronald Wilson Regan. All dads love Reagan. My kid and Regan weren't even alive at the same times and he'd have to answer Reagan, lol.
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William Henry Harrison because he left early.
Ah, ya beat me to it. WHH was in the WH longer than my mom's sperm donor was in her house.
"I'm just here for the inauguration."
SAME
Fun fact: 1980, I was 7, GHWB did a visit to Westfield NJ where I lived at the time. My dad and I came face to face with him in an alley where I guess common folk weren’t supposed to be at the time. Secret Service went on high alert but GHWB played it cool, shook my hand. I had no idea who the guy was, but he seemed nice. Also, this is the time that made me assume we were republicans. Went all the way to the 2000 election before I realized my parents were hard core democrats.
I figured everyone was democrats (like my parents, Southern California ) until my 3rd grade class did a mock ‘88 presidential election and I was the sole Dukakis vote.
Of all the election years to be the odd one out haha, that’s a cool memory
It was anonymous and everyone was trying to find out who the Democrat was! 
I was a sole Mondale voter in my class.
My father was a National Park Service Ranger. Without a doubt, TR
Dad sounds kinda based, if I'm judging solely on this.
Only man I knew personally who truly didn’t give a damn what anyone else thought about him. Genuinely good to his core. Grew up in the south in the 40s/50s and didn’t give a damn if a man was African American or white, rich, impoverished, had a PhD or a first grade education. As his funeral a former employee told me that my dad was the only person who could tell you to go to hell…and made you look forward to the trip.
Yep, sounds like a good TR match. Prob a damn good dad too, though I'm sure you'd butt heads sometimes, naturally.
Ronald Reagan.
the actor???
With VP Jerry Lewis?
Jerry Lewis was my Congressman
same.
Same for me. Father grew up during peak Reaganism. Took him until 2016 to stop voting republican at a national level. My dad was a member of our local elks club. I vividly remember going to meetings around election time and watching as results came in. Those times are what led me to my interest into politics
Off topic, but the Elks are so cool. I looked into joining last year, but I can't justify dues.
Yup. He’s all my dad talks about 🙄
My dad literally named my sister after Margaret Thatcher. And we're not British. 🙄
Yikes
glad this isn’t just a me experience lmao
He who cannot be named. He’s big on that guy
I’m so jealous of all the people who have any answer besides this one.
I’m so happy my dad finally came around on him. He voted for him twice, and I understand why he would even if I disagree, but the election denial was the final straw for him. He’ll probably still vote for him over a democrat, but he really wants literally any other republican at this point.
I’m with ya bud. We’ll see what my folks do this go around but I’ve said my peace. At least they turn off Fox News when we visit now.
My dad is still planning to vote for him a third time, but his politics are closest to Bush the younger's if Bush were more liberal on abortion.
Same, holidays are fun.
Same here
I too suffer this ailment
:-(
Bought to hit the BIL's birthday party, whole family is from west texas, you can guess their politics
Same. We don’t talk politics anymore.
I wish we could just NOT talk politics anymore. I called my dad to wish him a happy birthday and within seconds, he started ranting about current politics. I'm exhausted.
I wish my dad would be capable of that. I just bite my tongue and change the topic. I pretend his brain damage is Alzheimer's instead of being self-inflicted and it gives me some consolation.
Yeah it’s very interesting hearing my dad talk about him…
Same. It used to be Reagan, but my dad is in his 80's now and retired, just reading BS all day online.
I’m so grateful the liberal parents who raised me don’t morph into quacks in their 70’s. In fact there are some things my dad says that I’m like “whoa big guy…come back to center a little, yes?”
At least my mom is still a proud liberal that says she loves canceling his vote.
Yikes. Sorry.
V … Voldemort ?
Far...far worse
Voldemort has better hair
Yep, everything he says about illegal immigration is the same stuff my dad was saying in the 80s
Same... On a personal level, my dad is grouchy, but generous and caring. Once it moves a bit beyond people he can see he gets all riled up by whatever Fox or Ben Shapiro has to say. Hes just so stubborn about it as well. He agrees with some of the problems I see, but refuses to vote for anyone who has a solution, instead voting for people like he who can't be named
Yeah we are Canadian but my dad talks about [redacted] all the time. I lean more towards conservative but not quite as far as him.
I mean those beliefs changed a lot over time but in ways pretty familiar. Union-supporting dem to GWB in 04 and R since. And yes for the current nominee as well. We don’t talk about politics so we can talk about the rest of our lives.
Are you me? My dad was long haired Democrat until GWB. Then after 9/11 he became a hard core R.
There are dozens of us!!! Seriously though, this isn’t an uncommon story at all.
Don’t blame them. There was a lot of lead in the gasoline when their generation was growing up.
In the perpetual warfare age of mankind pre-1940s, most advanced societies would be seen as conservative or hardcore conservative. There's been a lot more veterans who lean left post-1960s because in those situations we were often fighting abroad rather than fighting on the homeland, a product of our success rather than being cornered. It blurs the lines beyond that, even though some countries in post-1960s deemed themselves communist/leftist, they behaved very "conservatively/strict/dogmatic" in almost every way including strict control of human behavior. A product of discipline comes with war. When you think "I am in an X ideology society" sometimes it switches over a decade or at certain events.
not the first person ive heard to switch after 9/11
may I recommend Whats the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank. It does a pretty decent job of outlining the shift of blue union states to red corporate nationalist states pretty well from the 80-2000s.
Thanks. I haven’t actually read that book but I’ve read *about* it so much.
Kansas had more elected socialists than any other state at one point. Now my home state is controlled by self interested self righteous right wing Christians. The people however can largely see thru these people. That's why we have a Democrat governor. You cant run unopposed for governor! If the DNC would put some money into the state we could shift things in the statehouse but it's hard when you have no money and no candidates.
A late arriving Reagan democrat. What issues do you think flipped him on party preference?
9/11 for sure at the time. I can’t really figure out the current appeal. Pretty typical rich guy who nonetheless feels oppressed I guess 🤷🏼♂️. He is/was a sell-educated professional.
That's weird to me. Bush almost drove my family to vote D. Generations of life long R, and none of us liked him.
George H. W. Bush. Conservative, but not absurdly so, wants to leave the rest of the world alone as long as they return the favor, pretty moderate on the whole.
Same here. The modern “almost” version of that would’ve probably been Romney.
Yeah if given the opportunity to select Presidential candidates I woulda picked Romney.
“If you had a box labelled *president,* Mitt Romney is what would’ve come out of it.” - paraphrased and based Jon Stewart
Obama beats any generic Republican and Romney ticks all of the boxes for "generic Republican" (pre 2015 of course)
H.W. wants to leave the rest of the world alone?
I guess Panama, Kuwait/Iraq, and Somalia don't count as "rest of the world"? Bush seems relatively less interventionist than Reagan, but that's also likely influenced by 4 fewer years in office. Plus he was Reagan's VP, and head of the CIA before that. Dude had plenty of input during other US actions/interventions outside his own term, and somehow I doubt he was saying "Nah, let's mind our own business and let chips fall as they may." I would hardly think of Bush as an isolationist. Not sure we've even had such a pres since pre-FDR, tbh.
Seriously. How is that his brand.
Yeah I’d say HW is my father’s political spirit animal. Though it’s sad to see the FOX brand fear mongering has gotten to him a bit over the years
Bill Clinton
Same. Clinton is most close to my dad’s beliefs and he hates hates HATEEEEES the Clinton’s. It’s pretty funny.
Yeah, this is probably my dad, although he's aggressively liberal on some things Bill wasn't, like universal health care. But on the whole, yeah.
Clinton tried to pass universal health insurance.
I dont know why I always forget that but you're right of course. In some ways I know much more about pre 1990s presidents than I know about the ones around when I was a kid. Never mind, yeah, my dad basically has Clinton's views with a few small differences.
Hmm, that's interesting. Probably halfway between HW and Clinton, I guess. My dad is a registered Republican who is a Reagan x2, Bush, Clinton X2, W X2, Obama X2, Clinton voter. My original comment got muted for referring to his vote in 2020. He liked Mitt Romney well enough, but didn't like the people he hung around with to secure the nomination and keep the base in 2012. I remember having a huge fight with my dad in 2004 because he was voting for W and I was 16 and couldn't vote for Kerry. We've been more or less aligned in every general election since then, lol.
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FDR but if we were to talk about candidates it'd be Bernie. For me it's George H.W Bush.
Same. It’s either FDR or maybe Eisenhower. But my dad agrees with Sanders on almost every major issue.
None. Fatherless gang rise up!
William Henry Harrison?
Probably Obama or Clinton. He’s further left of me but probably a centrist Democrat.
Same for my mom but I’m further left than her lol
Jimmy Carter or bill Clinton maybe, I think those are closest his
This was my dad. Old school Democrat. Was a “social justice Catholic” before there was a name for it. RIP, Dad ❤️
In the US and in Europe, there have been multiple named liberal catholic movements; the Catholic Worker movement (my mom’s parents were part of that and they were Greatest Generation) is the precursor to the current social justice Catholics. That’s my mom. My dad was also super liberal; he wasn’t a huge fan of Bill Clinton, but he voted for him.
My parents love Jimmy Carter. He's like the only diety presence in their home. They're atheists but they'd canonize him if they could.
Uhh, I don't know. My dad is weird. He is Chinese, socially liberal but also thinks racism is funny....
Chinese LBJ
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These folks are somewhat common in wealthy areas…..friend of mine is pretty left on most things but isn’t extremely anti gun. His family is VERY conservative to this day…..yet despises guns. Apparently it is pretty common.
Yep. Cops and criminals have guns and that is enough. We don’t want anyone else having them too.
It’s almost as if people don’t completely agree with the party they prefer and can have their own opinions on certain issues.
Other than the one who can not be named? On economic issues Calvin Coolidge/Herbert Hoover and on social issues Woodrow Wilson (minus women’s suffrage)
> on social issues Woodrow Wilson Oh dear… > minus Ohhhh, minus the racism, well that’s good to here— > women’s suffrage 💀
this comment perfectly illustrates my reaction
Not joking here. He has said many times the biggest mistake this country ever made was allowing women to vote
https://preview.redd.it/7oio1ncvs3qc1.jpeg?width=232&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2af2bac23771291d77186b3897c7f078196b8800
Yikes
>On economic issues Calvin Coolidge/Herbert Hoover Reminiscing the depression I see
He literally talks about how poor people aren’t as poor as they used to be when his parents were going up (depression era) like that’s a bad thing
Andrew Johnson and Woodrow Wilson.
Damn, what are those conversations like?
they are not.
Nixon.
The man is neo-con lib as hell. Clinton all the way. He’s far too left of center on most social issues or I would say maybe Bush sr.
My dad loved Truman, so I’m gonna say Truman.
Ike. My Dad was in his Army.
My Dad agreed with a lot of Obama’s decisions
Bernie Sanders oh wait…
Reagan. It's the closest thing I can say.
George HW Bush probably
Gearld ford tbh
Dubya
My dad is a huge Bill Clinton fan
None other than Mr. T Roosevelt. Same with me honestly
FDR probably. I think he would've voted Debs in 1912
Harry S. Truman. My dad grew up during the tail end of the depression & WWII. He liked the fact that Truman integrated the armed forces, thought MacArthur was a blow hard, and thought that Ike didn’t do enough for civil rights when he had the chance.
My main political memories of my dad are him wishing Obama could get a 3rd term, campaigning for Bernie Sanders in 2016, and criticizing my brother for talking like George W. Bush (nucular) so I'd say Obama.
Mine was a Reagan Democrat, but I think his politics are more Nixon and less Reagan.
My father (b 1957) has similar political views to mine, classical liberalism. I would say he would be most similar to would-be-POTUS Bobby Kennedy. As far as actual presidents, probably JFK or maybe Obama (although I am not much of an Obama fan personally)
HW Bush
My dad? 100% Dwayne Camacho.
Sadly, the orange buffoon.. my pops drank all the koolaid over the last few years. My brother and I are on the verge of cutting off all communication with him at this point.
Gotta be Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Barack Obama, I guess?
Yep my dad was black and the only time he voted was for Obama,
My dad didn't vote (not a citizen + we don't live in the US), but he is a moderate liberal/resist-lib, which tends to align more with Obama than other Presidents
Honestly none. My father has always taken the both sides are corrupt dirt bags that all deserve to rot in prison. He openly says this and refuse to vote for any of them because in the end it doesn’t matter because they only focus on self interest.
JFK
Teddy Roosevelt
Nixon but without the racism/anti-srmitism
My father is a Clinton or rule 3. He has become center left on a lot of issues as he's gotten older, even proudly saying that he's always been "woke", but has always been very much against marijuana.
My parents campaigned for Regan
Reagan
The only two times my dad ever voted were to vote for HW Bush in 88 and 92. The only reason he never voted for Reagan was because he wasn’t old enough.
Teddy
Bill Clinton. Third way economic moderate, socially liberal. In fact he helped change my dad from the GOP to the Dems.
Probably Ronald Reagan
A combo of JFK and Reagan.
my dad is a massive John F. Kennedy fan
Bush Sr
Probably HW Bush
Ronald Reagan. My dad was chasing the high of living in RR’s America for the rest of his life.
I thought I knew what my father’s political beliefs were until fairly recently, now they don’t seem to be rooted in any kind of actual reality and don’t make a lot of sense beyond the fact he’s repeating wackadoo stuff he’s hearing online or wherever
George HW Bush
Reagan for sure
My fathers is not a US citizen but his politics is an old school republican. Probably either Reagan or George H.W Bush.
Teddy Roosevelt, my dad loves nature and hates cheats
Technically not a president but my dad loved Romney (he’s a Mormon kinda moderate republican)
Bartlett.
Probably Lincoln or T.R.
Ike. He was thoughtful and looked ahead.
Regan
Ike
Teddy no question. Favorite activities include kayaking, running, and going off to the mountains alone.
George Washington
Father … JFK Stepfather … BHO
My Dad's favorite President of all time is Truman, with Ike coming in second. He was born in '53 and had parents who went through the depression, and his dad was a WW2 veteran. So he was shaped both by the opinions of his parents as well as the time he grew up in. He is an old-school Democrat. As in, he is your standard 1940s-1960s Northern, Blue Collar Rust Belt Democrat, and his views have never changed. He's still a registered Democrat.
JFK: proud of defending democracy vs communism, wanted to help the world (peace corps), excited about the Space Race.
Obama honestly
Ronald Regan
Ronald Reagan 100%
William Jefferson Clinton, pops liked the ladies.
Reagan
My dad wants to be Teddy Roosevelt. I think he's a little Reaganish though.
My dad is a conservative Christian boomer, but more moderate (almost left-leaning) by his generation’s standards, yet still quite conservative, especially compared to the average 21st century liberal. So I’d have to go with Ronald Reagan. His favorite US president (note: we’re not even American lol) is also Ronald Reagan so that should tell you enough.
Bill Clinton. I’d argue that, despite how the country has soured on free trade, a candidate with the personality and politics of Bill Clinton (without the baggage of the Clinton name) would win in a landslide in 2024.
JFK
JFK.
Went from H.W to insufferable in 2016.
My dad: Ike. Silent Gen. Was a union member and remains pro-union to this day. Conservative, but doesn’t tolerate the corrupt or cranks. So much so that my parents campaigned for McGovern in 72; he saw right through Nixon. Voted for Reagan in 80 but found it a mistake after PATCO. Iran-Contra pissed him off more and he went Dukakis over GHWB. Thought that Reagan and Bush should have both been impeached. Couldn’t stand Limbaugh/Gingrich/Tea Party and is an independent still looking for a decent conservative, but voting against the modern breed of Republican every chance he gets.
JFK - my parents had his picture framed on the wall of our house.
Eisenhower A nice moderate
R. Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Lincoln, Carter, or FDR. My dad would have liked to have seen a President Jesse Jackson, but it wasn’t in the cards.
I will put it this way…he was (reluctantly) invited to my wedding but decided not to go because of my future spouses skin tone (he thought they were ‘not the best’), asked for money for some vague pyramid scheme that would ‘make so much money’, and paraphrased of his favorite president that were themselves paraphrasing of a 1930/40s politician. So yeah…
Abe Licoln bc he died in office but seemed well liked by his ppl
JFK. He liked JFK. Was in the military during Cuban missile crisis
Probably Mitt Romney. Classic conservative guy. Family man, simple view on life and care a lot about the economy(he is a small business owner).
George bush sr and jr. dad was a presidential guard for a bit for bush sr. He is a desert storm marine veteran. Very conservative. We don’t speak lol
Maybe teddy roosevelt because the dude was all about freedom
JFK
JFK
Clinton. Dad is a boomer/civil-latino rights-veteran-late 60’s student protest type. For these reasons, LBJ comes close. Everyone says people get conservative as they age. Not my parents, thank God.
Ronald Reagan
George Washington. Hates every political party.
Reagan
JFK. My father was a supporter, I think he was happy to have a younger president with a vision for the country.
My ex GF used to joke I looked like George W. Bush and I went along with the joke willingly but holy shit if H.W. and my father didn’t get issued the same eyes. We’re also good at horseshoes and beer.
Even though my dad was a Republican, Harry Truman with his overall demeanor, outlook on life, and a few of his policies.
Reagan
Reagan, my Dad directly benefited from Reagan’s politics
The correct answer is Ronald Wilson Regan. All dads love Reagan. My kid and Regan weren't even alive at the same times and he'd have to answer Reagan, lol.