WI: Clinton had love child with Lewinsky?

The main consequences would be Gore trying to distance himself that much more from Clinton, and thus actually losing the 2000 election in the popular vote as well.

Would Gore have until 2000? If the scandal breaks before the November '96 election (six months pregnant equals summer '96 or thereabouts), would Clinton continue as the Dem candidate going into the elections, or would he resign and let Gore carry the banner? I'm open to the possibility that, given his enormous popularity at the time, Clinton could conceivably (no pun intended) stay in the race and even win. But he would be a crippled president politically for the next four years, especially after photos of the love child started popping up and Monica did Oprah.
 
What if when the news of the scandal broke out Monica was 6 months pregnant and hadn't named a father... force of media investigation proves it belongs to Clinton, how does this affect his impeachment trial (does he actually get kicked out?) is he still remembered as fondly from his time in office?

Not possible, since Clinton has NEVER had sexual intercourse with any of the women he has had extramarital affairs with. He only does oral play, because he doesn't consider it "sex," therefore he doesn't consider it cheating on Hillary (given Hillary's reactions to all of these things, she might not actually disagree with Bill, either...wouldn't be the first time a man and his wife had that kind of arrangement, especially if the wife really is disgusted by oral sex and won't do it).

To postulate that he would engage in conduct which could possibly lead to a pregnancy would be to postulate a completely different personality and moral belief system for Bill Clinton. And quite probably, these changes would have prevented him from becoming prominent in politics in the first place as his affairs would likely have been much more public, much more early on.
 
Not possible, since Clinton has NEVER had sexual intercourse with any of the women he has had extramarital affairs with. He only does oral play, because he doesn't consider it "sex," therefore he doesn't consider it cheating on Hillary (given Hillary's reactions to all of these things, she might not actually disagree with Bill, either...wouldn't be the first time a man and his wife had that kind of arrangement, especially if the wife really is disgusted by oral sex and won't do it).

To postulate that he would engage in conduct which could possibly lead to a pregnancy would be to postulate a completely different personality and moral belief system for Bill Clinton. And quite probably, these changes would have prevented him from becoming prominent in politics in the first place as his affairs would likely have been much more public, much more early on.

Flower's probably had the most substantial relationship but there isn't much semantics involved (i think you might be overstating potential goodnature of Clinton) (do you really consider him different than Tiger Woods or Elliot Spitzer or any other womanizer)


There was the alledged cigar thing and the blue dress it isn't a huge stretch for him to just take it one step further or maybe even for Monica to want to have his baby (in some of her earlier interviews she described it as something of a love affair)
 
See 'Grover Cleavland'

This call would probably be revived:

Ma, ma, where's my pa?
Gone to the White House ha, ha, ha.

At the very least we'd get a badly made TV movie of Grover Cleaveland's life as well as the mediocre one made about Thomas Jefferson & Sally's relationship--all being a not so covert way of portraying what is already on the public's "mind" without offending the people who are alive. The oldest trick in the book to circumvent the censors--write about similar events that took place in the past.

If this would've happened I'd hope that either Dole or McCain would get the presidency. However I highly doubt it since Bush would push his "compassionate conservative Christian" rhetoric, which the country after this would've been even more willing to embrace than it did in the OTL.

~Salamon2
 
See 'Grover Cleavland'

This call would probably be revived:

Ma, ma, where's my pa?
Gone to the White House ha, ha, ha.

At the very least we'd get a badly made TV movie of Grover Cleaveland's life as well as the mediocre one made about Thomas Jefferson & Sally's relationship--all being a not so covert way of portraying what is already on the public's "mind" without offending the people who are alive. The oldest trick in the book to circumvent the censors--write about similar events that took place in the past.

If this would've happened I'd hope that either Dole or McCain would get the presidency. However I highly doubt it since Bush would push his "compassionate conservative Christian" rhetoric, which the country after this would've been even more willing to embrace than it did in the OTL.

~Salamon2


That would be a clever throwback

Does anyone think the idea is worthy of a tl?
 
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