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If by "shoring up" you mean a total revamping that eliminated direct government control and brought in a free market based system that featured a premium support mechanism that has made America's health care system the wonder of the world and a model for places like Canada and Great Britain...

And we know how that turned out. My dad had to go to Costa Rica to get his heart surgery because the waiting lists were so long that he would have died if he had gone through the AmericiCare system. He had to sell his house to do it, but it bought him another ten years of life. Thank God...

What happens with a Gore presidency in the late 1990s depends a lot on events outside his control. He has the potential for endless goofiness, especially if he's in officer during a 9/11 style attack.

All of you are in fact wrong. It would either be Rick Perry (sans the back problem that resulted in some public goofiness) or Sarah Palin. Both are conservative, are very underestimated, and unlike Romney had the will to win.

A lot depends on what happens before hand. Bush would likely have started sending more support to the Northern Alliance with the goal of effecting regime change in Afghanistan. Clandestine involvement in that part of the world might have forestalled a later 9/11 altogether. On the other hand...

No POD needed. Switzerland pays the Golden Spike Company for a commercial moon shot.

As with everything, it all depends, especially in the manner 9/11 gets averted. Let us suppose advanced intelligence and putting two and two together results in the attacks being stopped and perhaps some of the terrorists falling into our hands. Something would obviously have to be done in...

Bill Safire wrote a book about a president who was struck blind while in office and carried on, with certain accommodations such as the Chief Justice being present at all bill signings. It was called "Full Disclosure."

A case could be made that had Palin run in 2012, she would have had a better chance of winning than Romney did. She's great on the stump, has a better grasp of the issues than some give her credit for (for example, having been recently proved right about a statement made in 2008 Fannie and...

So what happens to Rommel's family, left behind to the tender mercies of the Nazis?

There is one Clinton scandal that Atwater would have played up that wasn't much covered in 1992, that being the alleged rape of Juanita Broaderick. That particular story goes beyond the run of the mill sleaze about sex or shady financial dealings into a felony.

Yes, really. http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1899

It took a while for Nixon to tank too. The fact of the matter is that this stuff coming out in the heat of an election campaign would be poison for Obama. For one thing it would motivate a lot of people who stayed home because they were skittish about Romney to head for the polls.

Obama is actually under water in the latest approval polls, 46 approval, 49 disapproval.

Much depends on how Romney handles it. It's pretty clear that Mitt bungled the Benghazi mess during the third debate, mulishly sticking to his economy as the only issue strategy when the administration had handed him an example of incompetence and malfeasance as if on a silver platter. On the...

I suspect that for the first few months, Obama is like the cruxified messiah. But there are some important differences between -- say -- 2011 and 1963, not the least of which is the Biden is no LBJ (and in any case, Caro's latest book suggests that Lyndon had a hard time in the weeks after the...

There have been a number of incidents in Hank's recent past that has tended to tarnish his all American guy image. For instance, when the Pacific War miniseries was first broadcast on HBO, Hanks suggested that WWII in the Pacific was a "war of terror and racism" and that so is the current War...

Clinton and Newt Gingrich were preparing to strike a deal to reform Social Security (including private investment accounts) when the Lewinsky scandal hit. Without Monica, the deal might have come the fruition.

I'm intrigued enough by the crazy nature of this scenario to comment, something I have avoided doing for reasons that have nothing to do here. I cannot see Mr. Harper doing this or tolerating some lower level official who did. My knowledge of Canadian politics is scetchy enough to not know...

For those who liked the Barry Bush thread, here is the complete story: Dreams of Barry's Stepfather http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-of-Barrys-Stepfather-ebook/dp/B00BO9D3NC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362357833&sr=1-1&keywords=whittington+barry