Several blogs were surveyed and asked to list, in order, the twenty worst figures in American history.

Here are the results for right-winger bloggers, as tallied here:

Honorable Mentions: Ted Bundy (5), Jane Fonda (5), John Wayne Gacy (5), John Walker Lindh (5), Joe McCarthy (5), Michael Moore (5), Boss Tweed (5)

17) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (6)
17) John Walker (6)
17) Lee Harvey Oswald (6)
17) Robert Byrd (6)
16) Aldrich Ames (7)
14) Richard Nixon (8)
14) Aaron Burr (8)
12) Al Sharpton (9)
12) Charles Manson (9)
8) Timothy McVeigh (10)
8) Lyndon Johnson (10)
8) Hillary Clinton (10)
8) John Wilkes Booth (10)
7) Alger Hiss (12)
6) Noam Chomsky (13)
4) Jesse Jackson (14)
4) Jimmy Carter (14)
3) Bill Clinton (15)
2) Benedict Arnold (19)
1) The Rosenbergs (15) & Julius Rosenberg (5) (20 total votes)

And here are the results for left-wing bloggers, as tallied here:

Honorable Mentions: Boss Tweed (5), Roger Taney (5), James Earl Ray (5), Charles Manson (5), Rush Limbaugh (5), Jerry Falwell (5), Roy Cohn (5), Dick Cheney (5), John C. Calhoun (5)

20) The Rosenbergs (3) + Julius Rosenberg (3) (6 total votes)
20) Pat Robertson (6)
20) Oliver North (6)
20) William Randolph Hearst (6)
20) Aaron Burr (6)
20) Aldrich Ames (6)
18) George Lincoln Rockwell (7)
18) Robert McNamara (7)
14) Richard Mellon Scaife (8)
14) Lee Harvey Oswald (8)
14) Charles Coughlin (8)
14) Strom Thurmond (8)
13) Ronald Reagan (9)
12) George Wallace (10)
11) Andrew Jackson (12)
9) Jefferson Davis (13)
9) George W. Bush (13)
6) Benedict Arnold (14)
6) Henry Kissinger (14)
6) John Wilkes Booth (14)
3) Timothy McVeigh (16)
3) Nathan Bedford Forrest (16)
3) J. Edgar Hoover (16)
2) Richard Nixon (25)
1) Joseph McCarthy (26)

And now some observations of my own:

(1)  Left-wingers rank terrorists (Timothy McVeigh, Nathan Bedford Forrest) and assassins (Oswald, Booth) as being worse than right-wingers do.  In fact, Nathan Bedford Forrest doesn’t even rank in the right-wing list.

(2) Right-wingers rank traitors (Benedict Arnold, Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss) as being worse than left-wingers do.  Along those same lines, McCarthy barely makes a showing in the right-winger list, whereas he is number one on left-wingers’ list.

(3) It’s hard not to notice the where racists fall for each group.  Nathan Bedford Forrest and George Wallace don’t even show up on the right wing list, even as an honorable mention.  Neither does Confederate president Jefferson Davis.  But Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?  You bet right wingers have them. (Question: What did they do to make the such bad Americans?)

(4)  Right-wingers have an overactive imagination, and make their political enemies out to be worse than they actually are.  Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson are all worse Americans than Charles Manson?!?  Do right-wingers REALLY think that??