Donald Rumsfeld as Reagan's VP

What would the consequences of someone like Rumsfeld be if he was picked over Bush Senior? Would he succeed Reagan like Bush and how would it go?
 
Bush was picked after the Ford "Dream Ticket" Deal (which was pretty unrealistic IMHO) fell through. How it supposedly went was that Reagan asked Ford who he should pick and Ford said Bush as Ford had Bush's number at hand. Bush was the better pick than Rummy.
 
Then we might really have had WW3. Rummy wants to blow everyone off the face of the earth.
This gives the impression that Reagan truly was incompetent and HW Bush was pretty much the Dick Cheney of the 1980s, and Rummy or anyone else would've been to. I'm no Reagan fan personally, but he wasn't that much of a stooge.
 
This gives the impression that Reagan truly was incompetent and HW Bush was pretty much the Dick Cheney of the 1980s, and Rummy or anyone else would've been to. I'm no Reagan fan personally, but he wasn't that much of a stooge.

Agree, but he was somewhat of a hands off/delegator type of President and Rummy might have been able to convince him to start a major war. OTL Reagan didn't do anything larger than Grenada.
 
. . . OTL Reagan didn't do anything larger than Grenada.
but on the proxy war front, sadly in Guatemala, it was g for genocide, in retrospect it really the hell was.

We saw it in terms of East-West, communists vs. anti-communists, but a big component was ethnic, the Spanish descendants vs. the indigenous Mayans. In part, the Guatemalan government wanted to establish these civil patrols and the Mayans resisted. And the weird thing is, that the issue got Reagan's attention, at least a little bit. He publicly said the Guatemalan president was getting a bum rap.
 
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but on the proxy war front, it was g for genocide in Guatemala.

We saw it in terms of East-West, communists vs. anti-communists, but a big component was ethnic, the Spanish descendants vs. the indigenous Mayans. In part, the Guatemalan government wanted to establish these civil patrols and the Mayans resisted. And the weird thing is, that the issue got Reagan's attention, at least a little bit. He publicly said the Guatemalan president was getting a bum rap.

This is why I don't like Ike.
 
Didn't Reagan and Bush begin their weekly lunches after Reagan saw Bush's calm and deferential decision making ('only the President lands on the south lawn' type stuff) during the assasination attempt?

I have no idea how Rummy would act in that situation, but they may be a bit more distant than Bush and Reagan were after that.
 
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