WI: Vice-President Eastwood

What if the idea of having Clint Eastwood as the George H.W. Bush's running mate hadn't been shot down early and Eastwood had become Bush's VP? How would this effect Eastwood's later directorial career? How might Eastwood's greater involvement in government lead to him becoming an even larger player in the GOP? Could we see President Eastwood?
 
Do you have a source? Ideas like this are occasionally floated, but I'd like to be sure its legit all the same before I go any further.
 
Well, you certainly have more people voting for Bush who would no longer be worried about Quayle being President, though I don't know how many (the campaign had already done quite a number against Dukakis). Not sure how he would effect Bush's Presidency other than maybe introduce a very slight, but still noticeable libertarian flavor to his governance.

I don't see Eastwood staying on though.

Maybe run for Governor Wilson's old Senate seat in '92, and defeat Feinstein. That or run against Barbara Boxer. I initially looked at him becoming a Governor, that being a position I see him being more in tune with, but Pete Wilson wasn't going to budge from the position for some time.
 

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The nation's stress levels go down due to a lack of Quayle and the Vice President for general purposes surves as the White House Press Secretary. Bush wins reelection in 1992 because neither Clinton or Perot is able to convince anyone to run at the bottom of their tickets out of fear.

Eastwood then goes on to win his own term in 1996, personally going and puching Saddam Hussein in the face and then using his body as a club to beat down Osama Bin Laden. In 2004 the 22nd Ammendment is repealed due to fear. In 2008 the Economy fixes itself so it won't anger the president.

But all good things come to an end, and in 2012 while begining a run for his fifth term, Eastwood starts getting confused, fires all of his speechwriters and starts arugeing with furnature. Due to the fact that this is silly and Eastwood is no longer scary, the nation is easily swayed to elect Morgan Freeman based on his experience playing the Black President / Vice President / Speaker of the House in Great to at least decent movies.

The FH section is presently debating on this site if Harrison Ford or Bruce Willis has the better chance of running in 2016.
 
ASB. Though he was considered I cant see any proposals for Eastwood in the VP slot going much farther due to the fact that he is an Atheist. Such irreligious tendencies are not going to go over well with the religious right, or for that matter, Bush himself.
 
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Will his RNC speech involving talking to a chair and saying "I can't tell Mr. Bush to do that to himself" in the middle of an otherwise halfway decent speech?
 
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