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The Grand Old Party
Basically, it also bothered me that the Republicans are called the “Grand Old Party” even though they’re fifty years younger than the Democrats, so I made a scenario where the Democrats get continuously replaced by new parties. Then, in the 1950s, unspecified “electoral reforms” balkanize party politics, while the Republicans manage to stay on as a middle-of-the-road Rockefeller party.
Many butterflies were killed in the making of this list.
1861-1865 Fmr. Rep. Abraham Lincoln / Sen. Hannibal Hamlin (Republican)
def 1860 Sen. Stephen Douglas / Fmr. Gov. Herschel V. Johnson (“Northern” Democratic), V.P. John Breckinridge / Sen. Joseph Lane (“Southern” Democratic), and Fmr. Sen. John Bell / Fmr. Sen. Edward Everett (Constitutional Union)
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
1865-1865 Pres. Abraham Lincoln / Gov. Andrew Johnson (National Union/Republican)
def 1864 Gen. George McClellan / Rep. George H. Pendleton (Democratic)
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
1865-1868 V.P. Andrew Johnson / vacant (National Union/Democratic)
“This is ‘impeachment’ business is nothing but a partisan power grab.”
1868-1869 Sen. Benjamin Wade / vacant (Republican)
“The Republican agenda may now resume.”
1869-1873 Pres. Benjamin Wade / Sen. Roscoe Conkling (Republican)
def 1868 Fmr. Rep George H. Pendleton / Fmr. Sen. Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democratic)
“Rumors of corruption in my administration have been much exaggerated.”
1873-1877 Fmr. Amb. Charles Francis Adams / Gov. Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican/Democratic)
def 1872 Pres. Benjamin Wade / V.P. Roscoe Conkling (Republican)
“The goals of Reconstruction have been met. Now is a time for national healing.”
1877-1877 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman / Sen. Oliver P. Morton (Republican)
def 1876 Pres. Charles Francis Adams / V.P. Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican)
“I was elected, and so I shall serve.”
1877-1881 Pres. William Tecumseh Sherman / vacant (Republican)
def 1880 Fmr. Sen. Lyman Trumbull / Gov. Samuel J. Tilden (Liberal)
“I refuse to accept that Reconstruction is over.”
1881-1882 Pres. William Tecumseh Sherman / Fmr. Sen. John A. Logan (Republican)
“The gridlock and corruption is unbearable… I regret ever accepting this position.”
1882-1885 V.P John A. Logan / vacant (Republican)
“The assassin was a former Confederate seeking revenge. He will be swiftly brought to justice.”
1885-1889 Gen. George Armstrong Custer / Sen. James G. Blaine (Liberal)
def 1884 Pres. John A. Logan / Sen. John Sherman (Republican)
“I shall be the greatest president that God ever put on this Earth.”
1889-1897 Fmr. SoS Robert Todd Lincoln / Sen. William B. Allison (Republican)
def 1888 Pres. George Armstrong Custer / V.P. James G. Blaine (Liberal) and Fmr. Sen. Allen G. Thurmond / Rep. James B. Weaver (Populist)
def 1892 Fmr. Pres. George Armstrong Custer / Fmr. SoS John Quincy Adams II (Liberal) and Sen. Henry M. Teller / Rep. Leonidas L. Polk (Populist)
“My father was a great man, and, like him, I seek to govern wisely and boldly.”
1897-1901 Fmr. Rep. William Jennings Bryan / Sen. Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Populist/Liberal)
def 1896 V.P. William B. Allison / Rep. Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican)
def 1900 Fmr. Rep. Thomas Brackett Reed / Sen. William Freeman Vilas (Republican)
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
1901-1905 V.P. Richard Franklin Pettigrew / vacant (Populist)
“The President died in the tragic accept, but his legacy shall live on.”
1905-1909 Sen. Mark Hanna / Rep. Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican)
def 1904 Pres. Richard Franklin Pettigrew / Sen. Francis Cockrell (Populist)
“Now that that Populist unpleasantly is over, we may focus on the real issues.”
1909-1913 Pres. Mark Hanna / SoW Elihu Root (Republican)
def 1908 Rep. Oscar Underwood / Myr. William Randolph Hearst (Populist) and Rep. Morris Sheppard / Fmr. Gov. Roger Sherman Greene (Prohibition)
“For some inexplicable reason, it is ingrained in the popular consciousness that the Republican Party is corrupt.”
1913-1921 Myr. William Randolph Heart / Rep. Champ Clark (Populist)
def 1912 V.P. Elihu Root / Sen. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) and Fmr. Rep. Morris Sheppard / Rep. Edward C. O’Rear (Prohibition)
def 1916 Gov. Harry M. Daugherty / Herbert Hoover (Republican/Prohibition)
“The businessmen and the elites shall know no reprieve under my administration.”
1921-1921 Fmr. V.P. Elihu Root / Nicholas Murray Butler (Republican)
def 1920 Pres. William Randolph Hearst / SoC Robert Owen (Populist) and Sen. Theodore Roosevelt / Sen. Hiram Johnson (Progressive)
“I am beginning to feel faint.”
1921-1925 V.P. Nicholas Murray Butler / vacant (Republican)
“America will take its place in the international community.”
1925-1929 Pres. Nicholas Murray Butler / SoS Charles Evan Hughes (Republican)
def 1924 Gov. John M. Parker / Sen. Robert La Follette Sr (Progressive), Sen. Henry Ford / Rep. James Gerard (Populist) and Helen Keller / Fmr. Rep. James H. Maurer (Socialist)
“It seems that nothing I do will please these damn progressives.”
1929-1933 Gov. Gifford Pinchot / Sen. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive/Populist)
def 1928 Fmr. Gov. Calvin Coolidge / Gov. Frank Lowden (Republican) and Rep. John Nance Garner / Sen. James A. Reed (“Independent” Populist)
“Now, we must turn our attention to… wait, what did you say about the markets?”
1933-1937 Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg / Rep. James W. Wadsworth Jr (Republican)
def 1932 Pres. Gifford Pinchot / V.P. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive)
“This depression may be more unmanageable than I thought.”
1937-1939 Sen. Huey Long / Fmr. V.P. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive)
def 1936 Pres. Arthur H. Vandenberg / V.P. James W. Wadsworth Jr (Republican)
“I’m going to make President Hearst look conservative by comparison.”
1939-1941 Pres. Huey Long / vacant (Progressive)
“The bastard was aiming for me, but he got Franklin. He was a good man, damn shame.”
1941-1947 Pres. Huey Long / Rep. William Bankhead (Progressive)
def 1940 Sen. Charles L. McNary / Atty. Thomas Dewey (Republican) and Rep. Carl Vinson / Fmr. Amb. Joe Kennedy Sr. (Conservative)
def 1944 Gen. Hanford McNider / Sen. Wendell Willkie (“Democratic Unity”/Republican)
“Congress can try and impeach me all they want, but I will not be deterred from doing what’s best for the American people.”
1947-1949 V.P. William Bankhead / vacant (Progressive)
“That’s just like him. Die right before the shit hits the fan and leave me to clean up the mess.”
1949-1957 Sen. Leverett Saltonstall / Gov. Earl Warren (Republican)
def 1948 Pres. William Bankhead / Sen. Harry Truman (Progressive) and Gov. Benjamin Travis Laney / Rep. Edgar Eisenhower (Conservative)
def 1952 Sen. Estes Kefauver / Sen. Hubert Humphrey (Progressive)
“This new Constitutional amendment is one of my many responses to the instability of the last decade. It enforces a two-term limit, repeals the natural born citizen clause, and allows the replacement of a vice presidential vacancy, but its most notable section is electoral reform, which will essentially end the two-party system.”
1957-1961 V.P. Earl Warren / SoS Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
def 1956 Fmr. Sen. Joe Kennedy Sr. / Rep. Howard Buffet (National), Gov. W. Averell Harriman / Gov. Orville Freeman (Labor), and Sen. Estes Kefauver / Sen. Robert La Follette Jr. (Progressive)
“This unholy alliance between a Catholic Massachusite and the Klan will not stop me from guaranteeing civil rights."
1961-1969 Sen. Joe Kennedy Jr. / Sen. Richard Nixon (National)
def 1960 Pres. Earl Warren / V.P. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican) and Sen. Hubert Humphrey / Fmr. Gov. Adlai Stevenson (Labor)
def 1964 Gov. Nelson Rockefeller / Rep. Gerald Ford (Republican) and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson / Sen. Stuart Symington (Labor)
“The liberals and socialists have controlled our politics for far too long.”
1969-1969 V.P. Richard Nixon / vacant (National)
“That assassin had one fucked up sense of humor.”
1969-1973 Sen. Henry M. Jackson / Gov. Richard J. Hughes (Labor)
def 1968 V.P. Richard Nixon / Dir. J. Edgar Hoover (National), Gov. George Romney / Myr. John Lindsay (Republican), and Martin Luther King Jr. / Benjamin Spock (People’s)
“I don’t care if the protesters don’t like it, we’re going to fight tyranny at every turn.”
1973-1977 Sen. Robert Kennedy / Gov. John Connally (National)
def 1972 Pres. Henry M. Jackson / V.P. Richard J. Hughes (Labor), Sen. Mark Hatfield / Gov. Spiro Agnew (Republican), and Sen. Eugene McCarthy / Ralph Nader (People’s)
“There is an ongoing rumor that I am some sort of ‘secret leftist.’ I assure you that I am just as conservative as my father and brother were.”
1977-1982 Sen. Harold Stassen / Rep. Shirley Temple (Republican)
def 1976 Pres. Robert Kennedy / V.P. John Connally (National), Sen. Gaylord Nelson / Sen. Terry Sanford (Social Democratic), and Ayn Rand / John Hospers (Libertarian)
def 1980 Rep. Mo Udall / Sen. John Glenn (Social Democratic), Sen. Ted Kennedy / Fmr. Sen. Bill Brock (National), Fmr. Gov. George Wallace / Rep. Larry McDonald (“Independent” National), and Fmr. Sen. Barry Goldwater / David Koch (Libertarian)
“After all these years, I’ve finally won it.”
1982-1982 V.P. Shirley Temple / vacant (Republican)
“The president had been in poor health for some time… he died peacefully.”
1982-1989 Pres. Shirley Temple / Sen. John B. Anderson (Republican)
def 1984 Fmr. Gov. Hugh Carey / Myr. Dianne Feinstein (Social Democratic), Fmr. Sen. James L. Buckley / Sen. Bob Kasten (National), Jesse Jackson / Fmr. Gov. Jerry Brown (Rainbow), Fmr. Gov. Meldrim Thomson / Bob Richards (Constitution), and David Koch / Ed Clark (Libertarian)
“Mister Gorbachev, I demand nothing less than the dissolution of the Soviet Union.”
1989-1997 Sen. Bill Bradley / Rep. Harold Ford Sr. (Social Democratic)
def 1988 Ben Fernandez / Sen. Howard Baker (Republican), Pierre S. du Pont IV / Sen. Paul Laxalt (Law and Order), Sen. Al Gore / Sen. Sam Nunn (Center), Pat Robertson / Sen. Jesse Helms (Constitution), Jesse Jackson / Fmr. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (Rainbow), and Robert Nozick / David Nolan (Libertarian)
def 1992 Sen. H. John Heinz III / Gov. Clint Eastwood (Republican), Fmr. Sen. Paul Tsongas / Gov. Bill Clinton (Center), Gov. Gordon Humphrey / Pat Buchanan (Constitution), Fmr. Rep. Dick Cheney / Sen. Howard Baker (Law and Order), and Jesse Jackson / Rep. Ron Dellums (Rainbow)
“The hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. Social democracy is the future of America.”
1997-2001 Sen. Lowell Weicker / Gov. Lynn Martin (Republican)
def 1996 V.P. Harold Ford Sr. / Sen. Joe Biden (Social Democratic), Fmr. Sen. William L. Armstrong / Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Patriots’), Sen. Sam Nunn / Gov. Tom Carper (Center), and Fmr. Sen. Ralph Nader / Fmr. Gov. Bernard Sanders (Rainbow)
“Sometimes, you have to attack them from the left.”
2001-2001 Gov. Ann Richards / Gov. Joe Lieberman (Center)
def 2000 Pres. Lowell Weicker / V.P. Lynn Martin (Republican), Sen. Bob Kerrey / Sen. Paul Wellstone (Social Democratic), Sen. Lamar Alexander / Sen. John McCain (Patriots’), and Rep. Dan Hamburg / Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Rainbow)
“I hope promote peace and prosperity in this new millennium.”
2001-2001 V.P. Joe Lieberman / vacant (Center)
“President Richards was among those killed in the attacks… we shall bring the perpetrators to justice by any means necessary.”
2001-2005 Pres. Joe Lieberman / SoD Sam Nunn (Center)
“In this age of terror, I can think of no person more qualified to take the role of vice president than the Secretary of Defense, Sam Nunn.”
2005-2009 Pres. Joe Lieberman / Sen. John Edwards (Democratic Unity)
def 2004 Gen. Wesley Clark / Sen. Arlen Specter (Republican), Fmr. Gov. Howard Dean / Rep. John Lewis (Citizens’), Sen. Elizabeth Dole / Sen. Jon Kyl (Patriots’), and Fmr. Sen. Ron Paul / Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. (Liberty)
“This war has divided us greatly, but I seek to start a new political era, one of democratic unity.”
2009-2013 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sen. Mitt Romney (Republican)
def 2008 V.P. John Edwards / Gov. Steve Beshear (Democratic Unity), Sen. Russ Feingold / Sen. Barbara Boxer (Citizens’), Rep. Joe Scarborough / Rep. Arianna Huffington (Patriots’), and Rep. Tom Tancredo / Rep. Virgil Goode (Liberty)
“I knew I was a Republican the first time I heard George Romney speak back in sixty eight. He stood as the voice of moderation and reason between Jackson’s socialism and Nixon’s conservationism. That is the Republican Party that I represent.”
2013-2017 Sen. Mel Martinez / Fmr. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Patriots’)
def 2012 Pres. Arnold Schwarzenegger / V.P. Mitt Romney (Republican), Sen. Robert Reich / Sen. Judy Chu (Citizens’), Gov. Bev Perdue / Sen. Jim Webb (Democratic Unity), and Fmr. Rep. Andrew Schlafly / Rep. Michele Bachmann (Liberty)
“These scandals are unimportant. I will focus on governing this country according to conservative, patriotic principles.”
2017-??? Fmr. Pres. Arnold Schwarzenegger / Fmr. V.P. Mitt Romney (Republican)
def 2016 Pres. Mel Martinez / V.P. Tim Pawlenty (Patriots’), Sen. Jim Webb / Fmr. Sen. Evan Bayh (Democratic Center), Elon Musk / Rep. Zoltan Istvan (Future), Gov. Jay Inslee / Sen. Jack Reed (Citizens’), and Sen. Joe Miller / Rep. Jimmy Duncan (Liberty)
“I told you I’d be back.”
Basically, it also bothered me that the Republicans are called the “Grand Old Party” even though they’re fifty years younger than the Democrats, so I made a scenario where the Democrats get continuously replaced by new parties. Then, in the 1950s, unspecified “electoral reforms” balkanize party politics, while the Republicans manage to stay on as a middle-of-the-road Rockefeller party.
Many butterflies were killed in the making of this list.
1861-1865 Fmr. Rep. Abraham Lincoln / Sen. Hannibal Hamlin (Republican)
def 1860 Sen. Stephen Douglas / Fmr. Gov. Herschel V. Johnson (“Northern” Democratic), V.P. John Breckinridge / Sen. Joseph Lane (“Southern” Democratic), and Fmr. Sen. John Bell / Fmr. Sen. Edward Everett (Constitutional Union)
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
1865-1865 Pres. Abraham Lincoln / Gov. Andrew Johnson (National Union/Republican)
def 1864 Gen. George McClellan / Rep. George H. Pendleton (Democratic)
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
1865-1868 V.P. Andrew Johnson / vacant (National Union/Democratic)
“This is ‘impeachment’ business is nothing but a partisan power grab.”
1868-1869 Sen. Benjamin Wade / vacant (Republican)
“The Republican agenda may now resume.”
1869-1873 Pres. Benjamin Wade / Sen. Roscoe Conkling (Republican)
def 1868 Fmr. Rep George H. Pendleton / Fmr. Sen. Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democratic)
“Rumors of corruption in my administration have been much exaggerated.”
1873-1877 Fmr. Amb. Charles Francis Adams / Gov. Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican/Democratic)
def 1872 Pres. Benjamin Wade / V.P. Roscoe Conkling (Republican)
“The goals of Reconstruction have been met. Now is a time for national healing.”
1877-1877 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman / Sen. Oliver P. Morton (Republican)
def 1876 Pres. Charles Francis Adams / V.P. Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican)
“I was elected, and so I shall serve.”
1877-1881 Pres. William Tecumseh Sherman / vacant (Republican)
def 1880 Fmr. Sen. Lyman Trumbull / Gov. Samuel J. Tilden (Liberal)
“I refuse to accept that Reconstruction is over.”
1881-1882 Pres. William Tecumseh Sherman / Fmr. Sen. John A. Logan (Republican)
“The gridlock and corruption is unbearable… I regret ever accepting this position.”
1882-1885 V.P John A. Logan / vacant (Republican)
“The assassin was a former Confederate seeking revenge. He will be swiftly brought to justice.”
1885-1889 Gen. George Armstrong Custer / Sen. James G. Blaine (Liberal)
def 1884 Pres. John A. Logan / Sen. John Sherman (Republican)
“I shall be the greatest president that God ever put on this Earth.”
1889-1897 Fmr. SoS Robert Todd Lincoln / Sen. William B. Allison (Republican)
def 1888 Pres. George Armstrong Custer / V.P. James G. Blaine (Liberal) and Fmr. Sen. Allen G. Thurmond / Rep. James B. Weaver (Populist)
def 1892 Fmr. Pres. George Armstrong Custer / Fmr. SoS John Quincy Adams II (Liberal) and Sen. Henry M. Teller / Rep. Leonidas L. Polk (Populist)
“My father was a great man, and, like him, I seek to govern wisely and boldly.”
1897-1901 Fmr. Rep. William Jennings Bryan / Sen. Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Populist/Liberal)
def 1896 V.P. William B. Allison / Rep. Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican)
def 1900 Fmr. Rep. Thomas Brackett Reed / Sen. William Freeman Vilas (Republican)
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
1901-1905 V.P. Richard Franklin Pettigrew / vacant (Populist)
“The President died in the tragic accept, but his legacy shall live on.”
1905-1909 Sen. Mark Hanna / Rep. Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican)
def 1904 Pres. Richard Franklin Pettigrew / Sen. Francis Cockrell (Populist)
“Now that that Populist unpleasantly is over, we may focus on the real issues.”
1909-1913 Pres. Mark Hanna / SoW Elihu Root (Republican)
def 1908 Rep. Oscar Underwood / Myr. William Randolph Hearst (Populist) and Rep. Morris Sheppard / Fmr. Gov. Roger Sherman Greene (Prohibition)
“For some inexplicable reason, it is ingrained in the popular consciousness that the Republican Party is corrupt.”
1913-1921 Myr. William Randolph Heart / Rep. Champ Clark (Populist)
def 1912 V.P. Elihu Root / Sen. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) and Fmr. Rep. Morris Sheppard / Rep. Edward C. O’Rear (Prohibition)
def 1916 Gov. Harry M. Daugherty / Herbert Hoover (Republican/Prohibition)
“The businessmen and the elites shall know no reprieve under my administration.”
1921-1921 Fmr. V.P. Elihu Root / Nicholas Murray Butler (Republican)
def 1920 Pres. William Randolph Hearst / SoC Robert Owen (Populist) and Sen. Theodore Roosevelt / Sen. Hiram Johnson (Progressive)
“I am beginning to feel faint.”
1921-1925 V.P. Nicholas Murray Butler / vacant (Republican)
“America will take its place in the international community.”
1925-1929 Pres. Nicholas Murray Butler / SoS Charles Evan Hughes (Republican)
def 1924 Gov. John M. Parker / Sen. Robert La Follette Sr (Progressive), Sen. Henry Ford / Rep. James Gerard (Populist) and Helen Keller / Fmr. Rep. James H. Maurer (Socialist)
“It seems that nothing I do will please these damn progressives.”
1929-1933 Gov. Gifford Pinchot / Sen. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive/Populist)
def 1928 Fmr. Gov. Calvin Coolidge / Gov. Frank Lowden (Republican) and Rep. John Nance Garner / Sen. James A. Reed (“Independent” Populist)
“Now, we must turn our attention to… wait, what did you say about the markets?”
1933-1937 Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg / Rep. James W. Wadsworth Jr (Republican)
def 1932 Pres. Gifford Pinchot / V.P. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive)
“This depression may be more unmanageable than I thought.”
1937-1939 Sen. Huey Long / Fmr. V.P. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive)
def 1936 Pres. Arthur H. Vandenberg / V.P. James W. Wadsworth Jr (Republican)
“I’m going to make President Hearst look conservative by comparison.”
1939-1941 Pres. Huey Long / vacant (Progressive)
“The bastard was aiming for me, but he got Franklin. He was a good man, damn shame.”
1941-1947 Pres. Huey Long / Rep. William Bankhead (Progressive)
def 1940 Sen. Charles L. McNary / Atty. Thomas Dewey (Republican) and Rep. Carl Vinson / Fmr. Amb. Joe Kennedy Sr. (Conservative)
def 1944 Gen. Hanford McNider / Sen. Wendell Willkie (“Democratic Unity”/Republican)
“Congress can try and impeach me all they want, but I will not be deterred from doing what’s best for the American people.”
1947-1949 V.P. William Bankhead / vacant (Progressive)
“That’s just like him. Die right before the shit hits the fan and leave me to clean up the mess.”
1949-1957 Sen. Leverett Saltonstall / Gov. Earl Warren (Republican)
def 1948 Pres. William Bankhead / Sen. Harry Truman (Progressive) and Gov. Benjamin Travis Laney / Rep. Edgar Eisenhower (Conservative)
def 1952 Sen. Estes Kefauver / Sen. Hubert Humphrey (Progressive)
“This new Constitutional amendment is one of my many responses to the instability of the last decade. It enforces a two-term limit, repeals the natural born citizen clause, and allows the replacement of a vice presidential vacancy, but its most notable section is electoral reform, which will essentially end the two-party system.”
1957-1961 V.P. Earl Warren / SoS Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
def 1956 Fmr. Sen. Joe Kennedy Sr. / Rep. Howard Buffet (National), Gov. W. Averell Harriman / Gov. Orville Freeman (Labor), and Sen. Estes Kefauver / Sen. Robert La Follette Jr. (Progressive)
“This unholy alliance between a Catholic Massachusite and the Klan will not stop me from guaranteeing civil rights."
1961-1969 Sen. Joe Kennedy Jr. / Sen. Richard Nixon (National)
def 1960 Pres. Earl Warren / V.P. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican) and Sen. Hubert Humphrey / Fmr. Gov. Adlai Stevenson (Labor)
def 1964 Gov. Nelson Rockefeller / Rep. Gerald Ford (Republican) and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson / Sen. Stuart Symington (Labor)
“The liberals and socialists have controlled our politics for far too long.”
1969-1969 V.P. Richard Nixon / vacant (National)
“That assassin had one fucked up sense of humor.”
1969-1973 Sen. Henry M. Jackson / Gov. Richard J. Hughes (Labor)
def 1968 V.P. Richard Nixon / Dir. J. Edgar Hoover (National), Gov. George Romney / Myr. John Lindsay (Republican), and Martin Luther King Jr. / Benjamin Spock (People’s)
“I don’t care if the protesters don’t like it, we’re going to fight tyranny at every turn.”
1973-1977 Sen. Robert Kennedy / Gov. John Connally (National)
def 1972 Pres. Henry M. Jackson / V.P. Richard J. Hughes (Labor), Sen. Mark Hatfield / Gov. Spiro Agnew (Republican), and Sen. Eugene McCarthy / Ralph Nader (People’s)
“There is an ongoing rumor that I am some sort of ‘secret leftist.’ I assure you that I am just as conservative as my father and brother were.”
1977-1982 Sen. Harold Stassen / Rep. Shirley Temple (Republican)
def 1976 Pres. Robert Kennedy / V.P. John Connally (National), Sen. Gaylord Nelson / Sen. Terry Sanford (Social Democratic), and Ayn Rand / John Hospers (Libertarian)
def 1980 Rep. Mo Udall / Sen. John Glenn (Social Democratic), Sen. Ted Kennedy / Fmr. Sen. Bill Brock (National), Fmr. Gov. George Wallace / Rep. Larry McDonald (“Independent” National), and Fmr. Sen. Barry Goldwater / David Koch (Libertarian)
“After all these years, I’ve finally won it.”
1982-1982 V.P. Shirley Temple / vacant (Republican)
“The president had been in poor health for some time… he died peacefully.”
1982-1989 Pres. Shirley Temple / Sen. John B. Anderson (Republican)
def 1984 Fmr. Gov. Hugh Carey / Myr. Dianne Feinstein (Social Democratic), Fmr. Sen. James L. Buckley / Sen. Bob Kasten (National), Jesse Jackson / Fmr. Gov. Jerry Brown (Rainbow), Fmr. Gov. Meldrim Thomson / Bob Richards (Constitution), and David Koch / Ed Clark (Libertarian)
“Mister Gorbachev, I demand nothing less than the dissolution of the Soviet Union.”
1989-1997 Sen. Bill Bradley / Rep. Harold Ford Sr. (Social Democratic)
def 1988 Ben Fernandez / Sen. Howard Baker (Republican), Pierre S. du Pont IV / Sen. Paul Laxalt (Law and Order), Sen. Al Gore / Sen. Sam Nunn (Center), Pat Robertson / Sen. Jesse Helms (Constitution), Jesse Jackson / Fmr. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (Rainbow), and Robert Nozick / David Nolan (Libertarian)
def 1992 Sen. H. John Heinz III / Gov. Clint Eastwood (Republican), Fmr. Sen. Paul Tsongas / Gov. Bill Clinton (Center), Gov. Gordon Humphrey / Pat Buchanan (Constitution), Fmr. Rep. Dick Cheney / Sen. Howard Baker (Law and Order), and Jesse Jackson / Rep. Ron Dellums (Rainbow)
“The hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. Social democracy is the future of America.”
1997-2001 Sen. Lowell Weicker / Gov. Lynn Martin (Republican)
def 1996 V.P. Harold Ford Sr. / Sen. Joe Biden (Social Democratic), Fmr. Sen. William L. Armstrong / Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Patriots’), Sen. Sam Nunn / Gov. Tom Carper (Center), and Fmr. Sen. Ralph Nader / Fmr. Gov. Bernard Sanders (Rainbow)
“Sometimes, you have to attack them from the left.”
2001-2001 Gov. Ann Richards / Gov. Joe Lieberman (Center)
def 2000 Pres. Lowell Weicker / V.P. Lynn Martin (Republican), Sen. Bob Kerrey / Sen. Paul Wellstone (Social Democratic), Sen. Lamar Alexander / Sen. John McCain (Patriots’), and Rep. Dan Hamburg / Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Rainbow)
“I hope promote peace and prosperity in this new millennium.”
2001-2001 V.P. Joe Lieberman / vacant (Center)
“President Richards was among those killed in the attacks… we shall bring the perpetrators to justice by any means necessary.”
2001-2005 Pres. Joe Lieberman / SoD Sam Nunn (Center)
“In this age of terror, I can think of no person more qualified to take the role of vice president than the Secretary of Defense, Sam Nunn.”
2005-2009 Pres. Joe Lieberman / Sen. John Edwards (Democratic Unity)
def 2004 Gen. Wesley Clark / Sen. Arlen Specter (Republican), Fmr. Gov. Howard Dean / Rep. John Lewis (Citizens’), Sen. Elizabeth Dole / Sen. Jon Kyl (Patriots’), and Fmr. Sen. Ron Paul / Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. (Liberty)
“This war has divided us greatly, but I seek to start a new political era, one of democratic unity.”
2009-2013 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sen. Mitt Romney (Republican)
def 2008 V.P. John Edwards / Gov. Steve Beshear (Democratic Unity), Sen. Russ Feingold / Sen. Barbara Boxer (Citizens’), Rep. Joe Scarborough / Rep. Arianna Huffington (Patriots’), and Rep. Tom Tancredo / Rep. Virgil Goode (Liberty)
“I knew I was a Republican the first time I heard George Romney speak back in sixty eight. He stood as the voice of moderation and reason between Jackson’s socialism and Nixon’s conservationism. That is the Republican Party that I represent.”
2013-2017 Sen. Mel Martinez / Fmr. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Patriots’)
def 2012 Pres. Arnold Schwarzenegger / V.P. Mitt Romney (Republican), Sen. Robert Reich / Sen. Judy Chu (Citizens’), Gov. Bev Perdue / Sen. Jim Webb (Democratic Unity), and Fmr. Rep. Andrew Schlafly / Rep. Michele Bachmann (Liberty)
“These scandals are unimportant. I will focus on governing this country according to conservative, patriotic principles.”
2017-??? Fmr. Pres. Arnold Schwarzenegger / Fmr. V.P. Mitt Romney (Republican)
def 2016 Pres. Mel Martinez / V.P. Tim Pawlenty (Patriots’), Sen. Jim Webb / Fmr. Sen. Evan Bayh (Democratic Center), Elon Musk / Rep. Zoltan Istvan (Future), Gov. Jay Inslee / Sen. Jack Reed (Citizens’), and Sen. Joe Miller / Rep. Jimmy Duncan (Liberty)
“I told you I’d be back.”
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