Paul V McNutt
Banned
I am reading the book Days of Fire Bush and Cheney in the White House. It goes back much further than that. It said in 1992, George W. Bush advised his father to dump Quayle and replace him with Dick Cheney. What if he had followed his son's advice instead of rewarding Quayle's loyalty. I think Bush would have done slightly better in the 1992 election. I see Clinton 42% Bush 40% Perot 17%. Bush also carries New Hampshire, New Jersey, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Montana and Nevada. The Electoral College would have been Clinton 291 and Bush 247. The book also says that after the election, Cheney explored a presidential campaign, but decided he would rather not run. I am thinking with a national campaign already under his belt, Cheney would have run but would not have been able to defeat Bob Dole for 1996 Republican nomination. This TL does not change the close relationship between GW Bush and Cheney, nor the younger Bush's desire to put someone with foreign policy experience on his ticket. So I still think you would get the same Republican ticket and election results in 2000 and 2004. There would be one less controversy about Cheney. Because he would have been focused on his presidential campaign, he would have passed on the Haliburton job