What if President Clinton was assassinated in July 1997 by an abortion nut and replaced by Al Gore? Would Gore then be able to run and win the presidency in 2000? Can you spot what literary source this is from?
What if President Clinton was assassinated in July 1997 by an abortion nut and replaced by Al Gore? Would Gore then be able to run and win the presidency in 2000? Can you spot what literary source this is from?
errrr is there anyway we can have a non psedo-republican for vp...dachell...or beter yet max clevland the triple amputie vietnam vet thrown out of office in 2002 for being "unpatriotic"....is he viable for 2000That would make Joe Lieberman VP and perhaps President in 2004.
errrr is there anyway we can have a non psedo-republican for vp...dachell...or beter yet max clevland the triple amputie vietnam vet thrown out of office in 2002 for being "unpatriotic"....is he viable for 2000
how would 2000 shape up...if my memory is correct wasint there some trumped up nonesense about how bob kerry was a war criminal for a few civilians caught in cross fire of nam (considering the enormity of some of the daily atrocitys of nam that barely counts) Also would george bush be considerd a viable canadate considering he'd be running against two vetarens...unless I have my politions cofused wasint bob kerry a seal?
There was some discussion about Kerrey. Someone accused him of massacring civilians, he said they were fired on, fired back, and accidentally killed some civilians in the crossfire, and some Vietnamese woman popped up and claimed Kerrey and his men deliberately killed civilians.
I can't remember what happened afterward.
The GOP candidate in 2000 against Al Gore would likely be McCain (especially since W's "war record" is spotty AT BEST).
Good Chain of Events, But I Think The REAL Key to it Will be Something Similar to The Attack on The USS Cole ...I dont know I can still see the Republicans running Dubya in 2000 but with a different VP, perhaps Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, this is to cut Gore's legs off from beneath him by taking his homestate. In OTL Bush took Tenneseee anyway, but that wasnt a given. Lets say Gore asks John Kerry to be his VP and that is accepted by Congress. A Republican will replace Kerry in the Senate, now in OTL Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld left office in late July 1997, and had run against Kerry in the 1996 elections, his replacement was Republican A. Paul Cellucci, so it makes sense for Cellucci to replace Kerry with Weld.
In 2000 Bush/Alexander still wins Florida, but due to campaigning by John Kerry in the normally heavily democratic state of West Virginia, the Democrats gain the states five electoral votes and wins the election. Will there be a 9-11 attacks? How will the country look from 2000-2004? Whatever the case, Gore can not run in 2004, but Kerry does and selects another Arkansas native Wesley Clark as his running mate to balace the ticket and give him some strength on defense issues. The GOP will run Senator McCain selecting Ohio Representative John Kasich as his running mate. McCain wins in 04 but his bid for reelection is hampered by a sluggish economy and is in serious jeopardy of losing to the favorite Democratic nominee Bill Richardson
I imagine a huge backslash against the religious right. Not that they´d be stamped un-american or something like that, but you know Pro-Life would get a Very Negative Stamp.
I suspect that had Bill Clinton been murdered Gore would at least have thought of nominating Hilary as VP.
I also reckon he would have got away with it. I do not think that the Republican Congress would have dared challenge an VP nomination in such a scenario.