AHC: Elect a US president who is like Silvio Berlusconi

Exactly as it says on the tin. Elect a president of the United States at any point in the 20th and 21st century, who is exactly like or similar to Silvio Berlusconi, including practices of corruption he seems to get away with for a long time and debauchery.

Bonus points if you can find a suitable real life Congressman or governor.
 
William Randolph Hearst.

Not sure how you can get him to win the Democratic nod or the presidency in 1904, but maybe there's a sufficient POD.
 
John F Kennedy, there was some very hinky things going on with ballot boxes in the 1960 election and Daddy Kennedy was a crook of significant proportions with major involvement with East Coast organised crime.

Other than that Abraham Lincoln...anyone that apparently respectable must have been a gigantic pervert (and vampire slayer :) )
 
John F Kennedy, there was some very hinky things going on with ballot boxes in the 1960 election and Daddy Kennedy was a crook of significant proportions with major involvement with East Coast organised crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=074cp3EWd9A

Bollocks. Kennedy was not part of stealing the election in 1960, and it was not stolen. On both sides, there were irregularities going on. And there was a recount. There were not major differences, and all that happened was that Nixon lost Hawaii. And Joe Kennedy was not involved in organized crime. That's based on the bootlegging mythology, which in turn was bologna. During the 1960 election, a Republican newspaper published that Kennedy had placed an order for liquor before prohibition ended, with the insinuation he was bootlegging. In reality, Kennedy placed that order because prohibition was ending, and the liquor would come in to be sold after it was officially over.
 

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You mean other than Bill Clinton? Of who else could a liberal Times reporter (Nina Burleigh) say, "[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, Helvetica]I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs?" [/FONT]
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=074cp3EWd9A

Bollocks. Kennedy was not part of stealing the election in 1960, and it was not stolen. On both sides, there were irregularities going on. And there was a recount. There were not major differences, and all that happened was that Nixon lost Hawaii. And Joe Kennedy was not involved in organized crime. That's based on the bootlegging mythology, which in turn was bologna. During the 1960 election, a Republican newspaper published that Kennedy had placed an order for liquor before prohibition ended, with the insinuation he was bootlegging. In reality, Kennedy placed that order because prohibition was ending, and the liquor would come in to be sold after it was officially over.

And sold his Booze 'investment' to Longy Zwillman, who was a mobster, and FDR picked him for the SEC in return for large campaign donations, since it took a crook to catch another stock swindler. FDR thought he would be good at that. He had been really good at insider trading.
 
5 people who could pull off an American Silvio Berlusconi

1. Malcolm Forbes -- Has the media muscle, and he's a wild one. If got into politics, maybe.
2. Mark Cuban, if he went into politics.
3. David Geffen -- Has that balance of business and tawdry
4. Herman Cain -- He has the personality, just needs the bank book
5. Keith Olbermann -- Has the personality and the media savvy, just needs the bank book.
 
Exactly as it says on the tin. Elect a president of the United States at any point in the 20th and 21st century, who is exactly like or similar to Silvio Berlusconi, including practices of corruption he seems to get away with for a long time and debauchery.

Bonus points if you can find a suitable real life Congressman or governor.

Warren Gamaliel Harding seems pretty close to me.
 
In terms of other aspects of power, William Randoph Hearst.

I feel John Kennedy was a better Presdient that it is fashionable to say but in terms of sexual adventurism the Italian was an amateur compared to the Irish American
 
Exactly as it says on the tin. Elect a president of the United States at any point in the 20th and 21st century, who is exactly like or similar to Silvio Berlusconi, including practices of corruption he seems to get away with for a long time and debauchery.

Bonus points if you can find a suitable real life Congressman or governor.

Assassinate GW Bush. Cheney was and is a, let's say, diversified figure. Not sure how much of a debauch he is though, but then he's quite old.
 
So who combines the personal morality of Clinton with the business ethics of Darth Cheney? I'm sure there's someone.

I've heard some unflattering innuendo about Larry Flynt's business practices, and of course his sexual "morality" is the stuff of legend. And he has run for elected office numerous times, and takes a pretty serious interest in politics.

No way could be ever win an election, however.
 
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