Who was the last Republican President that was an actual fiscal conservative?

17 Comments

1. Alex says:

   September 26, 2011 at 11:48 am

   ronald regan dawg
2. Romare says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:26 pm

   Eisenhower?
3. Sugar says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:39 pm

   ~~ Roosevelt~
4. KY-Lube says:

   September 26, 2011 at 12:43 pm

   Moses.
5. Brian says:

   September 26, 2011 at 1:38 pm

   Nixon was the last one to balance the budget. Dummycrats like to claim clinton did, but it was a republican congress. They had to drag him kicking and screaming.
6. Dan Levin says:

   September 26, 2011 at 2:23 pm

   Newt Gingrich was responsible for the Clinton Administration’s surplus
7. namarz says:

   September 26, 2011 at 3:18 pm

   The great Ronald Reagan! I don’t know about George H. W. Bush, I don;t really remember his administration, but I learned all about Reaganomics in high school.
8. LeftofCenter says:

   September 26, 2011 at 3:45 pm

   George Washington
9. John F says:

   September 26, 2011 at 3:51 pm

   The last president to actually leave a surplus was a “tax and spend” liberal named William Jefferson Clinton. Reagan’s trickle down economics was a freaking joke and he left a huge deficit.
10. countryfirst says:

    September 26, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    Nixon.
    http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
11. IceT says:

    September 26, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Reagan. He was handed a recession just as bad as the current one and by the time he left office it was so strong that it took Clinton’s tax increases 6 years to slow it down. Reagan’s administration did have deficit spending but you have to remember the he worked with a Democrat control Congress who stopped his attempts every time he tried to cut spending! If you want a healthy economy and a reasonable budget you have to vote for real Conservatives and not the squishy moderate kind!
12. gcbtrading says:

    September 26, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    You got me there…Certainly Ronald Reagan wasn’t, though he spent the Soviet Union out of existence, so he deserves a pass.
    The difference really is that liberals seek to entrench government dependence.

    To do something critical to national and world security, and to have that spending come to an end, is quite different than training us all to be dependent on government subsidy
13. Don't Shoot The Messenger ? says:

    September 26, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    Nixon. Every Republican President we’ve had since him has actually doubled or in the case of Regan tripled our national debt.
14. deonejuan says:

    September 26, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Ike had the last balanced budget. Ike also wasn’t popular with the fruitcake California conservatives, intent on hunting commies.

    But what I like best about Ike was the way he handled illegal immigration. He transferred all the border agents to different offices. Suddenly, the farmers in the midwest could bitch all they wanted to at their Senators. The Senator would then pick up the phone and dial the Border Patrol, only to find they no longer had any influence.

    So, Ike was touted as the poster boy for the Republicans, but Ike was very much an independent and his legacy shows that.
15. greentadpole says:

    September 26, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    I would disagree Regan was a fiscal conservative, as he drastically increased spending ceilings for the military. Plus, in 1983, he had the highest ever increase in payroll taxes and social security tax ever.
    Regan may hae spurred support for the GOP, but he was no fiscal conservative.
16. Bluehawk says:

    September 26, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Ronald Reagan would’ve been a fiscally conservative president, if not for Democrats holding Congress.

    Before him, I would say Eisenhower was close; but expanded social security.

    Calvin Coolidge was a strict constitutional conservative.
17. Garamond says:

    September 26, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    It is Barack Obama. He is awesome and if I were a woman I would totally let him take advantage of me.