Serious Politicians Who Could’ve Become Jokes

Isot the Terrible

Banned
Had British politics taken a more eurosceptic turn in the '60s I can see staunch pro-European Ted Heath becoming a laughing stock, or if he had lost badly to Wilson in 1970.

I can easily see ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne being a political joke instead.
 

SirDoris

Thinking of an Australian example, maybe Simon Crean? He was a pretty unpopular Labor leader, with the Liberals hitting primary votes in polls of around 50%, but after resigning a little while before the 2004 election, he managed to salvage his reputation as an effective minister, albeit not one that's anything special. If he'd actually run in the election, we could have seen Labor return to 1996 levels of representation, or potentially even worse, without even the benefit of actually having been in government for the previous term, and Crean be treated as one of Labor's absolute worst leaders.
 
Bulldoggus

Bulldoggus

Banned
Thomas1195 said:
Prevent the rise of Labour. Most Labour PMs and leaders would become jokes except for Harold Wilson and Michael Foot (both would remain Liberals), and maybe Jenkins.
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Raferty

Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney, despite at one point being bitter enemies, were largely regarded of as jokes by the end, along with the PC Party, which carried itself as if it was the actual opposition to Chretien in the 90s and early 2000s and tried to ignore Reform/Alliance and not deal with their existence for as much as possible.

These guys are kind of the model of this. Someone whose political party or vehicle becomes irrelevant and they become irrelevant with it.

Perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud Party had Kadima been more successful and did not, say, make Amir Peretz, the man who did this:

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into being defense minister while in power?

Or maybe Mitt Romney had he lost the nomination again in 2012?
 
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