Challenge: President Arnold Schwarzenneger

Well, a crappy B movie actor turned out to not be a bad President. His domestic and economic policies were not great, but his foreign policies won the Cold War.

Not really. His militarist talk pushed the Soviet hardliners into great positions of power, and made the Soviets really check and test their capacity to fight a war with America for the first time. This due to them thinking Reagan was likely to start something and was an aggressor. This also lead to a near break out of war in 1983, when Able Archer was thought to be cover for a full on attack and when the Soviets detected incoming atomic missiles (turned out to be clouds or something like that misidentified by the system) and almost retaliated.

And the Soviet collapse was due to decades of corruption and mismanagement which had not been dealt with properly, along with competition militarily which they could not handle (which, contrary to popular belief, was all those 50 or so years of arms build up; not just Ronnie's 8) and even then the final nail was the Communist's attempted coup against Gorbachev. Had such not occurred, the Soviets would still be around today, simply reformed as the Union of Sovereign States.
 
Not really. His militarist talk pushed the Soviet hardliners into great positions of power, and made the Soviets really check and test their capacity to fight a war with America for the first time. This due to them thinking Reagan was likely to start something and was an aggressor. This also lead to a near break out of war in 1983, when Able Archer was thought to be cover for a full on attack and when the Soviets detected incoming atomic missiles (turned out to be clouds or something like that misidentified by the system) and almost retaliated.

And the Soviet collapse was due to decades of corruption and mismanagement which had not been dealt with properly, along with competition militarily which they could not handle (which, contrary to popular belief, was all those 50 or so years of arms build up; not just Ronnie's 8) and even then the final nail was the Communist's attempted coup against Gorbachev. Had such not occurred, the Soviets would still be around today, simply reformed as the Union of Sovereign States.
I stand corrected.
 
You could always have the issue clarified when George Romney ran for President. He was born is Mexico to US Mormon parents who had effectively immigrated to Mexico. If he had got near the nomination this would have ome up as an issue.
 
You could always have the issue clarified when George Romney ran for President. He was born is Mexico to US Mormon parents who had effectively immigrated to Mexico. If he had got near the nomination this would have ome up as an issue.
I still say regarding this issue Republican "Pick and choosism" regarding the Constitution would have been a big deal.
 
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