1992 Bush Victory

Glen

Moderator
Once Bill Clinton had been caught redhanded (as I assume your scenario

goes) no way does he come back:p Many have tried, all have failed:eek:

And Hillary just wouldn't have the exposure needed for a political

future of her own. Remember, it was the ceaseless venom of the Clinton

Wars that elevated her to a greater stature:D If the conspiracy theorists

who seemed to be RUNNING the Republican Party starting with the

Clinton 1992 campaign all the way to the 1998 thumping hadn't been

willing to believe her guilty of every crime on the books except

arson-for-hire there's NOWAY such a divisive personality could have been

seriously considered for a senate seat. ITTL, she will fade away...:cool:

I respectfully disagree. Hillary has a pretty strong will to power, I don't know that she would be completely knocked out of the possibility of holding office.
 
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I respectfully disagree. Hillary has a pretty strong will to power, I don't know that she would be completely knocked out of the possibility of holding office.
If Bill divorces Hillary to marry the bimbo he was caught with
If Hillary moves to NY and works in private practice for a while
If she campaigns/raises funds for local Democrats
If she devotes herself to all these things while raising Chelsea
If the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy(VRWC) rediscover her
If Dole is elected due to a fractured opposition
If the burgeoning Fox Empire, Hate Radio, and the Republicans decide she's a good fundraiser for THEM
If Schumer defeat Al Damato
If Moynihan goes OTL
If she does a campaign for the US Senate OTL

Then this could work. All she would need is the OTL venom
that got her elected OTL.
Remember her first opponent was Rudolph Guliani. Any Democratic
opponent would be seen as a sacrificial goat. After his withdrawal due to
cancer, she faced congressman Rick Lazio from Long Island. As the divorced wife of a
failed presidential candidate she would be taken to have no gravitas
whatsoever. But this also means no Hillcare disaster, and what little scandals
were left from the Clinton Wars such as they would be ITTL would be not
forgotten(VRWC/FOX) but rejected by most NEW YORK voters. And against
a Long Islander Hillary wouldn't have to worry about the usual
upstate vs downstate strategy of the NY state Republicans. OTL they
tried anyway and fell flat on their collective faces:D. ITTL, she'd be
underestimated, overlooked, sneered at, and mostly ignored by her
opponent who'd let VRWC/FOX do all the heavy lifting.
Most importantly, if her first debate is ANYTHING like OTL, well,
Bozo the Clown could have won after what Lazio and Russert together
tried to pull:eek:
 
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Archibald

Banned
Prototype that went as far as taking off, hovering, landing, and with a quick turnaround repeating the exercise (demonstrating the feasibility of a truly reusable vehicle). Then when they lost the contract NASA bought the prototype as a tech test bed, installed new more explosive fuel tanks, screwed up landing gear, and crash and burned the thing. Granted, it was an x - vehicle, and they do often crash and burn, but it if was a supported project we would have expected retooling and follow-on prototypes instead of nada which is what we have today.

Jeesh, as I write this, knowing I'm talking about OTL, I feel like it's some bad alternate history....:mad:



Yep. Bush administration was favorably inclined towards the DC-X IIRC.



Depends how you defined 'governing party', seeing how Congress had been in the hands of Democrats for so many decades before the 1990s....and likely still would be ITTL.



Anything is possible, but I suspect after that amount of time the country would be more interested in change.

Space Clipper or not, there was also the Space Exploration Initiative.

Early Lunar Access followed by the much bigger First Lunar Outpost. Return to the Moon around 2003...

The great difference will be NASA budget. Truth be told, clinton cut it by 20%. Bush had augmented NASA budget to nearly 1% of the federal expense. Makes a BIG difference.
 

Glen

Moderator
Space Clipper or not, there was also the Space Exploration Initiative.

Early Lunar Access followed by the much bigger First Lunar Outpost. Return to the Moon around 2003...

The great difference will be NASA budget. Truth be told, clinton cut it by 20%. Bush had augmented NASA budget to nearly 1% of the federal expense. Makes a BIG difference.

Yes, that's a very big difference as well. Yet another reason to have wished for a second term for Bush Sr.
 
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