Challenge- President Patton

Is there any way that General Patton could be President.

It must be Post War, 1946 minimum. Bonus points if you can make him President during the War.

And UBER Bonus if you can make his VP Erwin Rommel. :p
 

The Vulture

Banned
Well, if he isn't killed in Luxembourg, he might be convinced to run on a Republican ticket in '52 and ride the popularity from that. He'd probably see it as a another duty towards the people or something.

I doubt he'd do very well, though, as he wasn't too PC and lacked much tact. He'd probably end up creating some sort of embarrassing faux pas meeting with other heads of state, and so on.

Just my opinion on a controversial figure.
 
The assassination attempt re-energizes him and he replaces MacArthur for Taft's VP. Taft dies and Patton's anti-communist thinking create a much more dangerous Cold War.
 
After WWI, after turning down a position Truppenamt, Rommel decides it best if he moves to America. He becomes an engineer, and serves in various engineer regiments throughout the 20s. In 1932, he had reached a very high rank, and alongside Patton served under General MacArthur, and together they dispersed the "Bonus Army". This incident convinced them that the Democratic government was not going to end well. After quitting the Army, both went into politics, Patton going on the become the governor of New York, and Rommel the governor of Tennessee.

By the 1940 election, they had gained enough political experience to run on the Republican ticket, and won. America stayed isolationist, and Pearl Harbor never happened.
-----------------------------
Note, the above is ASB. Rommel would have to be born in America, and Patton probably wouldn't leave the military, nor Rommel Germany. Nor, I think, would they be elected in 1940. But whatever, I successfully passed the time :D
 

Cook

Banned
The assassination attempt re-energizes him and he replaces MacArthur for Taft's VP. Taft dies and Patton's anti-communist thinking create a much more dangerous Cold War.

The What?

He was paralysed from the neck down in a traffic accident on December 9, 1945 and died of a pulmonary embolism on December 21, 1945.

The accident took place near Neckarstadt, West Germany, not Luxembourg. He’s buried in Luxemburg as per his request to “Be buried with my men”.

Had he survived then he would definitely have been a potential candidate for the Republican Party.
 
The What?

He was paralysed from the neck down in a traffic accident on December 9, 1945 and died of a pulmonary embolism on December 21, 1945.

The accident took place near Neckarstadt, West Germany, not Luxembourg. He’s buried in Luxemburg as per his request to “Be buried with my men”.

Had he survived then he would definitely have been a potential candidate for the Republican Party.

It's a theory among some that the death of Patton was engineered by Eisenhower and the Russians, who thought of him as a threat to world peace.
 
If we combine Patton with the English prime-minister Churchill a third world war is almost certainly a fact. Because Churchill was one of the first western leader which saw the danger of the Sovjet Union occupying Eastern Europe.
Patton was one of the generals that wanted capturing Berlin before the Soviets could reach the German capital.
 

Larrikin

Banned
Berlin

If we combine Patton with the English prime-minister Churchill a third world war is almost certainly a fact. Because Churchill was one of the first western leader which saw the danger of the Sovjet Union occupying Eastern Europe.
Patton was one of the generals that wanted capturing Berlin before the Soviets could reach the German capital.

Every general except Eisenhower (and he may well have wanted to but kept quiet about it) wanted Berlin before the Russians. To imply that Patton was one of a handful is wrong. Even Mark Clark in Italy wanted to take Berlin before the Russians, he just couldn't work out how to disobey orders in order to do it.
 

Cook

Banned
If we combine Patton with the English prime-minister Churchill a third world war is almost certainly a fact.

Churchill was one of the founders of the United Nations as a means of preventing war between the Super Powers.

“Better to jaw-jaw is better to war-war” - Churchill.

To describe Churchill as a war monger is to totally misread the man.
 

Larrikin

Banned
Winnie

Churchill was one of the founders of the United Nations as a means of preventing war between the Super Powers.

“Better to jaw-jaw is better to war-war” - Churchill.

To describe Churchill as a war monger is to totally misread the man.

He also recognized that there are times when jaw-jaw is no longer valid, and you need to kick the other bloke in the gonads.

This point is generally reached well before the professional jaw-jaws will even admit they have a problem.
 
Top