Suggestions for Presidents in Leader of the Free World

So now that I'm going into the meat of my timeline, I need to figure out some good president and vice president ideas and some good losing ticket ideas for my time line, I'm not going to spoil any of my plans, but I will tell you my timeline is going until at least 2020.

So who are some suggestions for interesting modern presidents? I've had a few ideas but I want to see what other people think.
 
I kinda forgot about when the sex scandal with Gingrich happened. Still, McCain seems like the 2004 front runner in a Gore-victory TL.
 
You forgot about Obama. There is no love lost between Gore and Hillary IOTL- battling for the #2 slot throughout Bill's presidency. But for ideological reasons, Gore might prefer Hillary, a fellow DLC-er, to Obama. If McCain wins in 2004 then Clinton has the advantage due to the recession. Since there won't be Bush tax cuts with Gore and McCain presidencies, it will be a shallower recession than OTL, but the business cycle dictates that there will be a recession anyways. Whether it is longer or shorter than OTL- anyone's guess.
 
Feingold is too liberal to win the primaries. Unlike Obama he won't transition into a de facto DLC-er after his inauguration. Too easily caricaturable, especially against the GOP media machine directed by Ailes and Rove. Organization, fundraising, logistics, etc. Without Obama in the race, Hillary will easily outgun all of them in those fields.
 
Feingold is too liberal to win the primaries. Unlike Obama he won't transition into a de facto DLC-er after his inauguration. Too easily caricaturable, especially against the GOP media machine directed by Ailes and Rove. Organization, fundraising, logistics, etc. Without Obama in the race, Hillary will easily outgun all of them in those fields.

Feingold would make an interesting choice for a VP candidate, though. A DLC candidate, needing to recapture the liberal wing of the party (and therefore the grassroots support needed to win) could benefit from Feingold's progressive bona fides, and he'd be a fairly solid fundraising draw, too. I'm thinking here that someone like Bill Richardson would benefit most, as Feingold's strength is in domestic policy (in contrast to Richardson's foreign credentials), he balances a ticket geographically, and Wisconsin's a liberal state with a Democratic governor, so the seat would either go to a D through appointment, or give them a strong chance in a special election.
 
I think a Clinton-Richardson ticket would be ideal. Like '92, it would be an ideological twinning. Against Mike Huckabee the Dem base needs no encouragement.
 
I think a Clinton-Richardson ticket would be ideal. Like '92, it would be an ideological twinning. Against Mike Huckabee the Dem base needs no encouragement.

for the win me! :)

any ways 2012 time hmmmm at this point its 12 years post-POD Gore, McCain, Hill, well that very Center well the GOP puts out Jane Swift or Christine Todd Whitman maybe or some one like them
 
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After McCain, GOP base will want someone who's a social conservative, but an electable one. Maybe a Romney-Santorum ticket?
 
Given that he won't have flung his macaca around, George Allen would be a credible name here.

(And please, RB, not Santorum. Anybody but him. Urgh.)
 
While I like logic and reason, Romney and Huckabee are fairly boring people to have as president. I'm encouraging you to think out of the box here.
 
After McCain, GOP base will want someone who's a social conservative, but an electable one. Maybe a Romney-Santorum ticket?

the base is different Bush is the first time truly one of them to get elected, he goes down and they get beat by McCain four years latter maybe the Christian Right turns away from the ballot box(at lest nationally) it'll be the death of the Rove consensus
 
Jeb Bush, Linda Lingle, Mark Sanford (giggle)

Tim Kaine, Mike Warner or Jim Webb could play well in 2012, maybe 08.

I liked Tom Vilsack and Howard Dean, we could save them from historical obscurity.

Some home-state references of mine would be Dick Durban (really top notch) or Roland Burris, who almost won the Dem Primary for 2002 Illinois Governor and then would be a strong, African-American candidate for President in 2008 or 2012, if things went well.

Hell, without the Obama senate seat debacle, Rod Blagojevich could be a possible Presidential nominee.
 
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