President Larouche?

[Spike Torch]

What terrifying sequence of events could occur to enable Lyndon LaRouche (probably unique in his ability to unite 99.9% of people who know about him in mutual loathing of the man) to become POTUS with a post 1950 POD?

[Spike Torch]

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

I've actually had the "fortune" to meet some of his followers in the Swedish branch of the European Workers Party and what a weird bunch!

[Enigmajones]

Less realistic then President Bundy

[Stalin]

I could see him being a Norm Coleman type figure.

[Orville_third]

I could see him being a Norm Coleman type figure.
So you see him getting elected after his original opponent dies (and your media allies attack his opponent's party for praising him at his funeral), he gets elected, gets humiliated,in a discussion with a British Parliamentarian* and is defeated by a comedian?

*Appropriate for a guy who considers Her Majesty as the ringleader of a plot to rule the globe...

[Stalin]

So you see him getting elected after his original opponent dies (and your media allies attack his opponent's party for praising him at his funeral), he gets elected, gets humiliated,in a discussion with a British Parliamentarian* and is defeated by a comedian?

*Appropriate for a guy who considers Her Majesty as the ringleader of a plot to rule the globe...

I don't know what media allies you're referring to, but he certainly fits the profile of a stereotypical neoconservative (leftist, academic, etc.) in many ways even if he took a different trajectory in OTL. Maybe Horowitz or something might have been a more likely comparison, but since we're talking about politics someone like Coleman seems to be the best parallel. Of course that's probably still a stretch given his personality and aversion to thinkers like Strauss (which is strange given his hegelianism and move towards well, not very closeted fascism). LaRouche was always pretty bizarre even by the standards of marxists.