DBWI: President Clinton?

What if Ross had not suddenly dropped out and endorsed Bush in 1992? I remember the 51-49 split pretty well. Clinton was always focused on the economy, but how much better could the 1990s have been?
 
Better?

Better? You mean worse right. Would Clinton have nipped Osama Bin Laden in the bud in 95? He was caught with plans to run jet liners into American buildings after all. Imagine that catastrophe. Bush's CIA background was very useful.

Though I guess Bush losing in 92 would have prevented the Gore vs Quayle race in 96 :eek:
 
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Better? You mean worse right. Would Clinton have nipped Osama Bin Laden in the bud in 95? He was caught with plans to run jet liners into American buildings after all. Imagine that catastrophe. Bush's CIA background was very useful.

Though I guess Bush losing in 92 would have prevented the Gore vs Quayle race in 96 :eek:
I've just looked up Osama bin Laden, so now I know what you're referring to. Look, Archduke, it occurs to me that even if bin Laden wasn't caught back in 1995 when the jet-hijacking plan was still just a plan, I'll bet that it still would've gotten on the American intelligence radar before it happened and he'd still be stopped. I mean, American intelligence isn't completely useless, and it's not as if they'd do absolutely nothing about it once they found out...

D'you think that 1996 would've been Clinton vs Quayle, then? That'd still be a win for the Democrats, although not quite as enormous a win. But then again, a loss of Bush-Quayle in '92 could lead them to realise Quayle was a useless idiot and dump him for '96. Who could be the Republican nominee then? Colin Powell, maybe?
 
Economy

And as for the economy, I bet Clinton would have thrown us into the exact same recession Al Gore did in 97 with that ludicrous national health care scheme, except it would have happened four years earlier. Man, we are still trying to fix the mess that that caused.

As for catching that lunatic Bin Laden, didn't Clinton run on cashing in the peace dividend? This might be a little out there, but I think Clinton might have gutted our military and intelligence networks. How would we have caught Bin Laden or that Tim McVeigh guy if we had disarmed and blinded ourselves? Clinton was always talking about the need to draw down after the Cold War. Aren't you glad Bush kept everything we needed on hand or on order for the Russian Crisis of 99?
 
D'you think that 1996 would've been Clinton vs Quayle, then? That'd still be a win for the Democrats, although not quite as enormous a win. But then again, a loss of Bush-Quayle in '92 could lead them to realise Quayle was a useless idiot and dump him for '96. Who could be the Republican nominee then? Colin Powell, maybe?


No way Clinton would have been renominated after a loss. Gore would have been the heir presumptive. He was a very weak candidate, but my dog could have out debated and defeated Quayle. The Republicans really should have rallied behind Bob Dole in his primary challenge to Quayle. Dole was a war hero and imho he would have stomped Gore.
 
we probably wouldint be bankrupting ourselves by spending a trillion dollers a year on a military that has nothing but a bunch of bushy heads in converted toyota's with ak's to fight...you dont need a freaking b-3 or f-22 to fight that. meanwhile our citys continue to rot and the rot is spreading to the suburbs the town the farms...everywhere, china has us by the balls because of our debt...russia is a drunken bear but a bear non the less (why did bush rebuff yelstin all those times) oh and maybe the radical left :)rolleyes: the 1% crazy people that belive in such unamerican ideals liberty justice and equality0 wouldint be launching bombings and assisinations of goverment buildings and polititions
 
And as for the economy, I bet Clinton would have thrown us into the exact same recession Al Gore did in 97 with that ludicrous national health care scheme, except it would have happened four years earlier. Man, we are still trying to fix the mess that that caused.

As for catching that lunatic Bin Laden, didn't Clinton run on cashing in the peace dividend? This might be a little out there, but I think Clinton might have gutted our military and intelligence networks. How would we have caught Bin Laden or that Tim McVeigh guy if we had disarmed and blinded ourselves? Clinton was always talking about the need to draw down after the Cold War. Aren't you glad Bush kept everything we needed on hand or on order for the Russian Crisis of 99?
Oh, for heaven's sake, the recession was NOT caused by the National Health. Did Britain and Canada's economies collapse when they did it? No?

The real reason was an intensely complex combination of factors, the National Health plan was just an easy scapegoat for Republicans. It actually created many jobs, I mean it's not as if he outlawed private healthcare, is it?
 
D'you think that 1996 would've been Clinton vs Quayle, then? That'd still be a win for the Democrats, although not quite as enormous a win. But then again, a loss of Bush-Quayle in '92 could lead them to realise Quayle was a useless idiot and dump him for '96. Who could be the Republican nominee then? Colin Powell, maybe?

Given Powell rejected the nomination in both 96 and 2000, not likely. The "default" would probably be Dole or Quayle, but Quayle's position would be weaker. Possibly Lamar Alexander or Jack Kemp.... or even McCain, the 2000 candidate (though I'd think McCain would probably support Alexander). Given how badly Gore lost to him in 2000, it would probably be a GOP victory (unless the nominee is Quayle).
 
No way Clinton would have been renominated after a loss. Gore would have been the heir presumptive.
Um, I'd like to remind you that the topic of this WI is "What if Clinton won in 1992", so in that case he'd be renominated after a win... Why the hell would Clinton only serve one term?

Oh, for heaven's sake, the recession was NOT caused by the National Health. Did Britain and Canada's economies collapse when they did it? No?
Yep, I call bullshit too. My country's had universal healthcare for years.
 
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