The worst presidential candidate since when? Since who?

[skip fox]

DU,

In your lifetime have you seen a worst candidate, one who imploded in front of your face?


I've been alive since 1946 and I can't remember this happening, especially to such a degree and so comically.

Who am I forgetting? Who have been the worst clowns at the head of a national ticket in history?

Surely there must be someone to rival Romney!

Isn't there?

[Tennessee Gal]

1. Can't think of a single one as bad as Mitt.

Even W was not as bad as Mitt.

[ananda]

2. Roms has been imploding since the nom was his!

nt

[deutsey]

3. Bob Dole comes to mind

Flat, wooden, scowling, and growling "It's your money!" over and over again.

[Kindly Refrain]

4. Gotta go with Dole

That pencil he was always holding. I know he was injured but that was distracting.

[Jersey Devil]

11. I used to call Dole "Doctor Doom"

He reminded me of that guy who used to have a dark cloud follow him everywhere in the L'il Abner comic strip.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. This Is Without Question The Most Poorly Run Campaign I Have Ever Seen

He deserves to get beat worse than Walter Mondale did, but he won't.

[justiceischeap]

6. For me it's not the candidate but the campaign itself

I can't think of a more poorly run campaign. You can sell any candidate (re: Shrub) if you have a good campaign.

[hifiguy]

7. In terms of an awful campaign, this is a singularity.

Nothing I have seen - and I've been following elections for 40 years - comes close.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I'm 64 and have never seen anybody so removed from reality as a candidate.

[TheKentuckian]

9. McShame ran a gawdawful clusterfuck of a campaign and Weird WilLIARd is making that mess look

like Obama or Jack Kennedy running.

TURRRABLE!!!

[sofa king]

10. Maybe Eagleton?

Thomas Eagleton was only one of the disasters and dirty tricks which befell George McGovern in 1972. McGovern's chances were looking poor at best going into the convention, and at least half a dozen prominent Democrats turned McGovern's offers down. By the time he landed on Eagleton, there was little time to do a background check on him.

He lasted as a vice-Presidential pick for a few days or weeks, until it became evident that he suffered from chronic depression and had been through electroconvulsive therapy at least twice. He quickly self-destructed before withering press inquisition and was gone by the beginning of August.

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

Nixon, not knowing well enough to leave it alone, continued with his election-theft plans....

The differences abound. Eagleton was not the leader on the ticket, and unlike an obviously unqualified running-mate like Sarah Palin, Democrats didn't stick with a sure loser. The fix was in against McGovern that year--Bob Novak played a prominent and highly damaging role--and little was going to change that.

McGovern himself largely escapes blame in retrospect. Romney won't.

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. since EVER , Skip!