PC: President Lincoln Chafee (R)?

How plausible is it to get a president Lincoln chafee with this very rough scenario?


Gore wins in 2000 and dies in 9/11. Lieberman becomes Prez and has the war in Afghanistan and one in Iran occur, and are really bad. Chafee wins in 08 against a very weak democrat (Edwards?, Bayh?)

What happens next?
 
How plausible is it to get a president Lincoln chafee with this very rough scenario?


Gore wins in 2000 and dies in 9/11. Lieberman becomes Prez and has the war in Afghanistan and one in Iran occur, and are really bad. Chafee wins in 08 against a very weak democrat (Edwards?, Bayh?)

What happens next?

How would Chaffee win the nomination instead of candidates like Mitt Romney or John McCain?
 
How would Chaffee win the nomination instead of candidates like Mitt Romney or John McCain?

McCain's hawk wing is completely discredited due to the republicans being on the other side of the anti war/pro war fight. Romney could be a Hillary analoge
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
PoD needs to be earlier, and has to do with the mindset of the Republican Party. Chafee is, for the Republicans, a Rockefeller. For him to even be considered for the Nomination, you'll need the Republican Ideology to be in the 'Moderate-Liberal', whilst the Democrats 'Conservative'.

To do this, while we can do PoD's closer to present, I'm going to go to my extreme and postulate that Nixon wins in 1960 (Chafee was born in '53, and came from a family of politicians, so him being one under this condition isn't unlikely), and starts pushing Civil Rights (Nixon having been supportive of Civil Rights). This results in Conservative Republican's who oppose the movement flocking to the Democrats, who take position as the opposition to the Republican support, resulting in them becoming more Conservative. Eventually Chafee wins nomination in a liberal-Moderate Republican party in 1996/2000/2004, and becomes President (assuming he doesn't die or join the Democrats).

Basically what I'm saying is that for Chafee to become President, you need the Republicans to be ideologically moderates. I know I could probably pick more recent (Reagan wins in '76, looses in '80, and the Party drifts from Conservative to moderation in he hopes this will have them win), but that was the first thing that came to mind.
 
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