WI: Reagan with no alzheimers?

If Ronald Reagan didnt get alzheimers in the early 90s, what do you see him doing with his life? He'll obviously be at the GOP conventions of 96,2000, (and possibly 2004 and 08), but what else? It would be interesting to see what he would have thought of clinton and GWB.
 
He might live a few years most importantly. A living Reagan would definatly speak at conventions and Republican candidates would seek his endorsement and Reagan would become the Godfather of the Republican Party.
 

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McCain would have won the 2000 nomination, he and Reagan were real close friends, and a Reagan endorsement would have carried alot of weight, enough to have other delegates sway McCain's way.

Who would McCain's Veep be? Certainly not Cheney, doubtfully Bush, maybe Lamar Alexander? Who ever it is would most likely get the 2008 nomination. If the economy still stinks and the administration is still very unpopular then the Democrats win in 08, if McCain does alright, then its likely a toss up with the DNC running someone like Hilary instead of Obama (I think Obama would not have ran if the administration was more popular, candidates usually dont get second chances). If the DNC run Hilary she wins in 08, Obama is a maybe but as I said I doubt he'd run, anybody else is a toss up.
 
I think Reagan would be very supportive of many of the modern GOP's policies, and considering what has happened concerning the GOP the past 8 years (and the fact that he wouldn't be removed by any force to make him a living God of the conservatives instead of just an important figure, or to disconnect him from the Republicans of today), it may have scarred his legacy a bit to be connected to the modern party instead of forever to the Camelot of the 1980's Reagan years.
 
Camelot?

Camelot?

Camelot!

It's only a model.

Quiet you!

Alright, the Neo-Con mind set Leave it to Beaver Camelot Utopia where America's always right, daddy doesn't feel that way about other daddies, the Indians were asking for it, and high spending and low taxation makes a stable economy.I'm not saying it actually existed; I'm saying it as a perception.
 
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President Reagan would have been neutral in the Republican primaries but would have worked for whoever won the GOP Nomination.

He might have been enough to change the result of the 1992 election.And he would have been someone that Republican in the Congress would have listen to. I am not sure that he would have supported many of the positions that John McCain took regarding immigration etc.
 
He might go into the private sector if he is healthy enough. Having worked with the Russians might be enough to steer him into working as a cunsultant for the oil industry going after the Russian oil.

Edit: Or become a lobbyist for the military industrial complex.
 
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If Ronald Reagan didnt get alzheimers in the early 90s, what do you see him doing with his life? He'll obviously be at the GOP conventions of 96,2000, (and possibly 2004 and 08), but what else? It would be interesting to see what he would have thought of clinton and GWB.

Reagan without alzheimers would speak at the 96 Republican Convention for sure and possibly speak at the 2000 convention. But to say that he would speak at the 04 and 08 is to push things to credulity and down right silly. He most likely will be deceased by 2008. He will still probably will have serious health problems, be it pulminary, heart, or possibly a stroke. So he'll probably die more or less around the same time; give or take a few mont or a year. No doubt he'll have more to say about President Clinton and if he is still alert or cognizant at 90 years old he'll probably have a few things to say about GW Bush but I doubt he would publicly endorse McCain in 2000 primaries. I just don't see him going against the son of his former VP.
 
I doubt he would publicly endorse McCain in 2000 primaries. I just don't see him going against the son of his former VP.

I don't either, even assuming he would have actually preferred McCain, which is questionable: McCain opposed Bush's proposed tax cuts, which were modeled after Reagan's, and I can't think of any issue where McCain was closer to Reagan than Bush.
 
I don't think GWB would have run in 2000.

There is a good chance with, Reagan's support, that Bush Sr. would not have lost so many Conservative votes to Perot. That is a margin that let's him best Clinton in 92.

So, the question is, Who do the Dems run in 96? And could Quail have pulled enough support from the right to win the Repub Nom? The Media is in full kill mode by now against any Repub (16 years of being on the outside) the will be salivating on what they could do to Quail (look at their constantly hammering Bush for 8 years).

Either way, by 2000 the players will have different names.
 
He might go into the private sector if he is healthy enough. Having worked with the Russians might be enough to steer him into working as a cunsultant for the oil industry going after the Russian oil.

Edit: Or become a lobbyist for the military industrial complex.

Reagan would be too old to be a lobbyist. Even if he lives he'll be in his 90s and would want to spend his days in retirement only occasionaly endorsing candidates, campaigning, or speaking at conventions.
 
Alright, the Neo-Con mind set Leave it to Beaver Camelot Utopia where America's always right, daddy doesn't feel that way about other daddies, the Indians were asking for it, and high spending and low taxation makes a stable economy.I'm not saying it actually existed; I'm saying it as a perception.

Dude, I was making a joke.:rolleyes: I know what Camelot is.
 
Reagan would be too old to be a lobbyist. Even if he lives he'll be in his 90s and would want to spend his days in retirement only occasionaly endorsing candidates, campaigning, or speaking at conventions.

I assumed some kind of decent health, given that, some people work into their 90's, altough not as hard as they used to. Lobbyist seems like one of those jobs. If he can speak at conventions, why not at something else.
 
If Bush I did win in '92 it'd have interesting knock-off effects. If people remembered a Republican as president during the boom years of the 90's the Dems would be even more discredited.
 
I assumed some kind of decent health, given that, some people work into their 90's, altough not as hard as they used to. Lobbyist seems like one of those jobs. If he can speak at conventions, why not at something else.

It's very rare for former Presidents to go into the private sector especially a lobbyist. Also convention speaking means you have to appear in public only once in a while but being a lobbyist means working and appearing in public almost everyday
 
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