my guess is that Robertson has this in the bag and man are the dems shooting themselves in the foot. I think Mondale may even take second place with how badly a Brown/Kerry ticket can be.
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Hmm... Disappointed at lack of Perot, but I suppose he can't run in every timeline. Mondale though, I feel will be like when McGovern ran in Alan Keyes' End of History. The Robertson Administration is still fucking... Pat Robertson. The Dead Kennedy's will be horrified that Jerry Brown is finally running for President. During the parts about the Democratic primaries, I couldn't help but hear California Über Alles in my head. I agree with President Earl Warren that Robertson has this in the bag.
That and Jerry Brown being well Jerry Brown. Also it seems to me the Dems are campaging too much on social issues,sure its understandable with Pat Robertson as President but their going to lose the Bread and butter voters and people who approve of an Anti flag burning bill (id say most of the country) and dont nessicarly agree with Social liberalism, to the RtF if thats all they talk about
Admiral Halsey
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Ok after that I'm sticking with electoral deadlock clusterfuck. With RftF getting enough Senate and House seats to play kingmaker.
Robertson wins in that scenario, Hes more likely to connect with the Rurally based RTF than Jerry Brown will.
Admiral Halsey
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Thing is I'm betting RftF side with whoever is willing to repeal the flag ammendment whith Robertson wouldn't do IMO.
Why would you say that, I’d say a good majority of the Rtf agrees with it?
Bookmark1995
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Speaking of which, has Robertson really done anything poisonous while President? I wouldn't vote for him, but has he really done anything to earn the scorn of the people.
Leon Trotsky
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Pat Robertson is a Gilead-style Christian Fundamentalist theocrat. Simple as that. Here is some more info on him according to RationalWiki:
- Robertson believes climate science (science about global warming) is a religion and does not understand it is evidence based.[51]
- Pat thinks that marriage is a great thing, unless your wife has Alzheimer's. Then it's permissable to divorce her, ASAP.[52]
- Pat also thinks that adoption is a great thing unless the kid is some damn furreigner or grew up "weird" due to sexual abuse or food deprivation, in which case it isn't.[53]
- Pat's views on domestic battery are also a trifle insane incoherent unenlightened odd, to say the least.[54]
- Pat's odd response to the French debate over legalizing same-sex marriage was a rambling screed that asserted that the Illuminati caused the French Revolution.[55] No shit.
- Pat thinks Dungeons and Dragons will lead gamers onto the road of perdition[56] (no, not the movie), a tiresome old moral panic meme if there ever was one.[57]
- Pat thinks that "XX-Rated" movies are a gateway to demonic possession.[58]
- Pat thinks that since drugs exist, humanity is enslaved by vegetables, and only God can free us from our overlords. No, seriously.[59]
- Pat believes that AIDS can be spread by towels in Kenya,[60][Note 3] completely ignoring modern medical science[61] — or even 80's science, for that matter.[62]
- Pat thinks that houses can be demonically possessed and that the possession can be cured by dumping that house on some other sucker homeowner, despite the somewhat unethical nature of such an undertaking.[63]
- "Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."[65]
- "When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved in Adolph Hitler were Satanists. Many of them were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together."[66]
- "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."[67][Note 4]
- "You know what they do in San Francisco? Some of the gay community there, they want to get people. So, if they've got the stuff, they'll have a ring. You shake hands and the ring's got a little thing where you cut your finger, Really. I mean it's that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder."[68]
- "I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss."
- "I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."[69]
Leon Trotsky
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Addendum: Do not take just my or RationalWiki's word for it, here is a entire Wikipedia page dedicated to documenting his innumerable controversies and frankly speaking "batshit" moments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson_controversies
Enjoy reading, my friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson_controversies
Enjoy reading, my friends.
Bookmark1995
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Yes, I despise ol'Pat. He's a bastard who took money from Mobutu and tried to profit from genocide, but as President ITTL, has he done acts worthy of scorn?
Only thing I could think of was trying to push a FMA amendment but he failed. Im personally thinking that his staff has been doing a great job of Clamping down on his mouth to keep his Religous right zeal from looking too rediculous or extreme for the American people.
Bookmark1995
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Well, assuming his bullshit about the Korean War, and his financial improprieties come out, maybe.
For know, most people might see him a man of deep faith. He has high ratings on those Christian shows for a reason, you know.
So Bassett's tumor is butterflyed away?
Edit: Also who's Janice Miller OTL?
Edit: Also who's Janice Miller OTL?
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So, that didn't pan out. My intention was that the Perot campaign is overconfident and totally underestimates Mondale.
Much of the RFTF base, blue-collar Midwestern workers and Plains farmers agree with the amendment. Much of the RftF Senate delegation votes against (Wellstone, Mondragon, Feingold, Lonsdale, etc.) though the more conservative House delegation with people like Dick Lamm and Jim Traficant vote for it. The American people at large are generally in favor, but there is significant outrage among liberals and some waryness in the center. Whether those politicians that voted no can distance themselves is a good question.
Nothing too major. The continuing war in Iraq (which is increasingly against insurgents) is a problem and the Robertson DEA and IRS are allegedly targeting left-wing politicians and public figures. Much of the coast hates him, but people in the interior are feeling good economically and the President's odd statements have declined quite a bit since his election. It's kind of a "liberals hate him, conservatives are fine with him" sort of deal.
@President Earl Warren Was right that the White House has been able to clamp down on questionable behavior.
Bassett's cancer is in remission. That's something I plan on covering sometime.
Janice Miller was a member of the Reform Party IOTL and a City Council member in Florida.
Can Mondale keep up with someone whose aura smiles and never frowns?