AH Challenge: POTUS Sanders

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Apparently Sen. Sanders is AH.com's most popular senator so with that in mind...

Have Bernie Sanders of Vermont become POTUS

Bonus Points if he does it without becoming a Senator first.
 

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Apparently Sen. Sanders is AH.com's most popular senator so with that in mind...

Have Bernie Sanders of Vermont become POTUS

Bonus Points if he does it without becoming a Senator first.
Why Can't he Run against Palin in 2016, on a platform of sound Fiscal Policy and Sanity? He'd so win that too.
 
I don't see it happening

While he would certainly get some respect from the Right for voting against the TARP, and supporting the "Audit the Fed" bill, I don't see how an actual "socialist" gets elected President. You'd have a much easier time electing a Democrat with a voting record similar to his (ex. Feingold, Boxer, etc.), then getting Sanders into the White House.
 
it's 1988... Sanders is the popular mayor of Burlington, famous for his effective revitalization of that city's downtown center...

September, 1988: Dukakis is killed when he gets too close to a couple alligators at a gator farm in Florida

Bentsen, under pressure to choose a "balancer" for mourning liberals, goes past Jesse Jackson and goes right to asking New England liberal Bernie Sanders to be his vice presidential running mate.

At first, Sanders is reluctant, pointing out that at least Jesse Jackson would be more effective on the campaign trail, Gore is better-looking, etc.

(When it's pointed out that Sanders does get to make a civil rights notch in his being the first Jewish vice-presidential nominee, among other arguments including the opportunity to Make A Difference, Sanders accepts.)

Bentsen metaphorically guns down Bush in the final election. (Sanders is very professorial in his dissection of Quayle during their television debate.)

In the months leading up to the Bentsen-Sanders inauguration, observers toy with reports that Sanders could wear two hats, including Secretary of HUD along with VP.

Tragedy struck again a couple days before the inauguration, however: Lloyd Bentsen Jr. was riding in a car with his father Lloyd Bentsen Sr. at the wheel when the vehicle apparently ran a stop sign and ended up struck on the side by another vehicle. Both father and son were dead at the scene.

Days later, a nation united in grief and shock witnessed the inauguration of the young-ish (born 9/8/1941, in 1989 he's umm 57) Bernard "Bernie" Sanders as president.
 
it's, like:

good news: no war in Iraq

bad news: Saddam Hussein might end up with nukes, and, even though he's no friend of al qaeda, he's still kind of unpleasant to have as an 800-pound gorilla in that neighborhood.

good news: Iran is second banana to the swaggering Saddam's Iraq

bad news: buh-bye Kuwait

good news: Sanders guilt-trips congress into hiking CAFE requirements (with no loopholes for SUVs, Bernie don't play) to the point that SUVs remain esoteric lumbering toys for hunters and other intensely outdoorsy types and/or US border patrol duties, thus, gasoline consumption goes down instead of up, and, gas prices along with potential trepidation about oil-source stability go down also.

interesting news: without US troops to the rescue, Bin Laden's offer to provide a defensive group of Afghan veterans as a barrier between Iraq and Saudi Arabia is actually accepted. at one point, as the mujahadeen gang are bunkered down across the frontier from Iraqi troops, Bin Laden stands up and shakes his fist at the Ba'athist opponents. Several Iraqi RPGs are fired at the jihadist at once, so, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein ends up giving every soldier in the platoon a substantial cash prize for simultaneously eviscerating and beheading the towering would-be terrorist. (Everyone together now: AWWW!)
 
then again.....

Yitzhak Shamir gets another round of "naughty, naughty" from the world when the Israelis, again, take out Iraq's nucular research/production facilities. Saddam is planning to threaten to retaliate with nerve-gas weaponry, when a message from Shamir is delivered to Saddam with a roughly-sketched mushroom cloud under the words, "Go ahead, make my day."
 
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