re: Who’s your favorite Founding Father?

Washington wins for what he did with the continental “army” alone. Not to mention everything after the war was won.

He did not want that command, was grossly unqualified as a General, was out-gunned, out supplied and repeatedly out-witted by more experienced field commanders. Reading his letters, he lost all hope multiple times, as he was facing the best supplied, best trained army in the world with a rag tag group of farmers that was starving, freezing, shoeless, largely weaponless, and just waiting for their enlistments to end so they could go back to their families. He never let his troops see his despair.

He also believed deeply in the republic. He was careful to a fault not to overstep the authority congress had bestowed upon him. During the revolution he painstakingly consulted with congress as to the boundaries of his command. After the victory, he could have been king. Instead he turned over the army and went back to farming, with no desire for power. They had to beg him to serve,yet again, as president.

Without his miraculous patience, courage and leadership, there wouldn’t have been a country or any founding fathers. The rebellion would have ended in the first year and the fathers hung for treason. The American experiment would have amounted to a historical footnote.

The other FF were great men and thinkers and did monumental things for the republic but none can approach the contributions of and example set by George Washington, imo.