On a "McCain 2000" thread, two proposed running mates for John McCain were Missouri Senator John Ashcroft and former Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole. Since I cannot find John McCain's running mate short list for 2000, what if Dole was McCain's running mate in 2000, served two terms as Vice President, and ran and won the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008? Because some say without George W. Bush Barack Obama would be butterflied, it leaves an interesting election between former First Lady Hillary Clinton and former would-be First Lady Elizabeth Dole and makes history as the first election between two women.