AHC-President Joe Lieberman

Just what it says on the tin.

Bonus points if it is before 2000.

Extra Bonus points if it in 2004 or later.

No Points if Al Gore dies.
 
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Neither God nor Satan nor Apollo could get Joe Lieberman to win a Democratic presidential primary

The only realistic way you are going to get Pres Lieberman is by death or resignation of the incumbent
 
I am thinking make him the Democratic nominee in 2000. hHis was a critic of Bill Clintion during the impeachment debate but did not support impeachment.
 
The tied electoral college in 2000. tThe House selects Bush as president. aAl Gore's tie breaking vote in the Senate elects Lieberman.The FBI stops 9/11 from happening. tThere is no Iraq war. lLieberman does not alienate the Democratic base he wins the 04 nomination and beats Bush on domestic issues.
 

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Lieberman decides to keep running for re-election instead of retire. Sometime in the next 25 years he becomes President Pro Tempore. In some major catastrophic event, the President, VP, and Speaker of the House are all killed. Lieberman becomes acting President.
 
Lieberman was the initial frontrunner in the Democratic Primaries, much like how Giuliani or McCain were in the early stages of the '08 Republican ones. What needs to be found is a way to actually keep that momentum going, at least to such a degree that he is a challenging for the nomination come Iowa. I might be best that Wesley Clark stays out of the race, and endorses Lieberman, and that Gephardt remain strong rather than completely collapse, thus making Iowa that year as clinched in his camp, and paid less attention, with more attention being given to New Hampshire. In that primary, Lieberman needs to secure a win.

Note: There was though a lack in belief that Lieberman could secure the nomination, even during times where he polled strongly.

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I think you need to radically alter the circumstances behind 2004 to have him nominated. 2004 was a foreign policy election, in so far as those actually happen, and Lieberman wad too close to Bush on those issues to be attractive to the Democratic voters. While there is something to be said for staying within the consensus, Lieberman also had to differentiate between himself and Bush on the issue at stake, and he simply was not that removed from Bush on those issues. So you need to make the election more about the domestic issues on which they disagree. The best way for Lieberman to be the nominee, is to avoid 9/11 and the Invasion of Iraq. That would make 2004 a domestic election, and on those issues he is different enough to be attractive to the anti-Bush set. But that is only the nomination, you need him to win the general election. And typically incumbents do not lose.
 
Have Gore die BEFORE the election, Lieberman takes up his mantle and wins on sympathy vote/not be assassinated by the media every two steps like Gore was. Also, have Bush say something SUPER offensive about the late Gore, like when talking about him he mentions something like: Those who live their lives away from God should be surprised when they are punished. The backlash should at least give Lieberman a point or 2.
 
I think you need to radically alter the circumstances behind 2004 to have him nominated. 2004 was a foreign policy election, in so far as those actually happen, and Lieberman wad too close to Bush on those issues to be attractive to the Democratic voters. While there is something to be said for staying within the consensus, Lieberman also had to differentiate between himself and Bush on the issue at stake, and he simply was not that removed from Bush on those issues. So you need to make the election more about the domestic issues on which they disagree. The best way for Lieberman to be the nominee, is to avoid 9/11 and the Invasion of Iraq. That would make 2004 a domestic election, and on those issues he is different enough to be attractive to the anti-Bush set. But that is only the nomination, you need him to win the general election. And typically incumbents do not lose.

That or keep Rumsfeld out (Cheney possibly as well, though without Rumsfeld that isn't as important), and have the Iraq War and the Occupation waged more competently, in such a way that it becomes a sideshow similar to the Afghan War. The War on Terror remains an important issue, but is of no greater importance when compared to domestic concerns given the lack of an insurgency in Iraq (or at least the potent one of OTL). Even if there was an insurgency, I imagine it would be dealt with more effectively than how Rumsfeld had suggested.

So make the War on Terror a political issue, but not in such a way that there is the same significant Anti-War movement that pushed Dean into the running, putting the Democratic Party as a whole in the Anti-War position (or at least the Eventual Withdrawal position).
 
You could have him be Mc Cains running mate. John Edwards wins the primaries and Joe becomes VP are Mc Cain wins the election. Mc Cain has a heart attack and Lieberman becomes president.
 
I don't think a Repubilcan convention would nominate Lieberman.

True, in spirit. But if McCain stuck to his guns, what are they going to do? And if he's running against John Edwards, and let's say the McCain camp has some well-secured intel on Edwards' recent activity, then McCain might feel he has more room to be himself and be inventive, and not try to go after every conservative vote.
 
In 2000, John McCain and Al Gore are tied in the electoral college. McCain is elected President, while Lieberman is elected Vice President. McCain is assassinated on September 11th, Lieberman becomes President and is re-elected in 2004 despite losing the popular vote. In 2008, Harold Ford Jr becomes the Democratic nominee, leading to Russ Feingold's independent candidacy. Senator Jim DeMint is elected President with 46% of the popular vote, but he sweeps 46 states, including Feingold's home state of Wisconsin (DeMint 41%, Feingold 39%, Ford 19%). In 2012, Jim DeMint is once again re-elected - but with a sharply reduced majority. He defeats Moderate nominee Matt Lieberman (running mate: Charlie Crist), Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders (running mate: Dennis Kucinich) and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson by a 35-33-29-2 popular vote margin. Guess what? This is the insane universe of Alien Space Bats, owned by yours.
O Come Alien Space Bats,
Install Joe Lieberman.
O come ye, O come ye to Washington.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Sanity;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Joe Lieberman.

O Sing, Gore's Reqium,
Sing in desperation,
Sing all that hear in evil Beedok the nutjob.
Give to our Cosmos glory in Insanity;
O come, let us adore Them,
O come, let us adore Them,
O come, let us adore Damn,
Alien Space Bats.

All Hail! Gore, we greet Thee,
Killed this sleepy evening,
O McCain! for evermore be Aliens adored.
Word of the Space Bats, now in flesh appearing;
O come, let us adore Them,
O come, let us adore Them,
O come, let us adore Damn,
Alien Space Bats.
 
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