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“If Al Gore had won…”

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  September 3rd, 2011 at 11:13 AM  | 

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It’s a slow, Labor Day weekend Saturday, and as I browsed the Interwebz this morning, I ran across this gem from The Hill.  In it, Brent Budowsky attempts to channel his inner Harry Turtledove by creating an alternate history about what might have happened had Algore won the 2000 election against George W. Bush.

The piece is rife with silliness such as this:

The pro-earth policies of President Gore would have made a substantial dent in pollution and taken the offensive against climate change. Gore would have still won and deserved the Nobel Prize, as a world leader of nations.

Torture would never have happened under an American president.

The Supreme Court would never have decided Citizens United as it did. Special interests would not have as much power to buy our elections and democracy had Gore been inaugurated in 2001.

The basic mistake that Budowsky makes here is that of virtually every politician and pundit on the Left:  the Law of Unintended Consequences.  The Left never considers the side-effects of their policies.  So what would the economic impacts have been had Algore had his way and the U.S. had been saddled with economy-choking cap-and-trade, or worse, legislation?   How much worse would the terrorism problem had been if Algore had continued the terrorism “policy” (if one could call it that) of President Clinton?

So, I leave this exercise to you, dear readers:  What is your alternate history of an Algore presidency?

This is your open thread for the day – answer that question, or pose others.

Discuss.

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  • Vannek

    We’re about to find out. California has a liberal Democrat governor. The latest round of redistricting is likely to give the Dems a supermajority in the state legislature. All of the idealistic progressive policies that we’ve been hearing about from folks like Gore will soon be implemented here. California is about to become Greece. It’s unfortunate, but I hope other states watch and learn.

  • bcochran1981

    DOOM

  • NRPax

    The drastic cuts in the military, continued on by Gore, would have made responding to an attack on our soil even more difficult.

  • NRPax

    And since DOOM wasn’t boldfaced or in a larger font, are you implying that things wouldn’t have been all that bad?

  • lizzie0306

    Due to the increased number of wind powered generators, many avian species would now be extinct. Motorized boats would not be allowed on public access waterways. Massage therapists would form a union to protect themselves from President Gore.

  • gawken

    ..but as usual, they failed to do the right thing, morally, as well as for the country..and their party.

    Flash back to the impeachment. The country was disgusted with Clinton. Having sex with an intern in the Oval office..denying what “is” reallly is..lying under oath..the whole panpoply of Clintonian sleeze..

    Had the Democrat congressional leadership told Clinton to go, that it was time, that they could no longer defend him.., he would have resigned.

    Gore would be president, and in the mass glee tghat out “long national nightmare was finally over” he’d have easily been elected in 2000. Rememebr..no obvious wars..the economy was humming along, the markets were up. The Dems would have easily won the 2000 election..

    They of course lacked the ability, the courage, to do the right thing..and so they lost…

    And the nation was fortunate. Bush, for whatever his shortcomings..and there were many, was the right man to be in he WH on 9/11. I cringe at the thought that Gore could have been calling the shots.

    Which to my mind, overwhelmingly proves the following:

    1. There IS indeed a God.
    2. He has a special love for this country.
    3. He has a sense of humor.

  • dmacleo

    initial in 2001, then again in 2002, 2003, 2004…and stopped in 2005 when new administration in place.

  • Tregonsee

    We have watched Gore become progressively more unstable, dare I say unhinged, as his AGW agenda has become progressively discredited. Now image that happening to someone with his finger on the nuclear button. (By comparison, President Obama his largely retreated into passivity under similar though not identical stresses.) I can easily imagine President Gore being the first president to be declared unfit under the 25th amendment.

  • acat

    is what would he do in the aftermath of 9/11.

    Would President Gore have continued in the tradition of Clinton and treated it as a criminal investigation? CSI:9/11 ..? I am not sure how many of my fellow americans would have accepted that solution.

    Or .. given what we’re now seeing from Al, would the flaws of his character that have recently come out been exposed by that horrible day? Gore has been shown as someone who will lash out when provoked, my hypothesis is that – where Bush under-reacted, Gore would have over-reacted.

    Couple that character flaw with his AGW beliefs and .. why would he have let the House of Saud continue to stand?

    Mew

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …I generally take the position that wrt Afghanistan/Iraq we’d have probably not seen that dramatic a change at first, actually: after all, in that universe Al Gore did not have a psychotic break stemming from the realization that he would never, ever be President*. Assuming that 9/11 didn’t smash his psyche like a rotten pumpkin, Gore would have activated his Tough, Wartime President subroutine and functioned accordingly: and the Democrats would have backed his play, the hypocrites.

    Of course, he’d have cracked up, eventually. That psychosis was going to come out at some point.

    Moe Lane

    *A goal that Gore had been essentially programmed for since birth.

  • JimmyGee

    It would have been had Igore won….
    1. The BIGGEST problem he would have had about 9/11 is the environmental impact.
    2. He would not have attacked our attackers, he would have APOLOGIZED to them, and only ask that when they attack us in the future to THINK OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON THE PLANET.
    3. He would have created a program where the Amish “adopt” a earth-killer rehab program.
    4. The explosives used in any bombs America made would have to be powered by flowers.
    5. By executive order all coal , gas, and nuclear energy use would be a capital offense punishable by death (only after the Amish rehab program).
    6. Free bikes for everyone!!!
    7. One child per “family.”
    8. Our U.S dollar/currency would be converted to “carbon credits.”
    9. All chimneys would be banned.
    Thank God he never was President, he would be as bad as the current one…..

  • http://www.pointofdebate.blogspot.com psu145

    Massive flooding would take hold as plant and tree infrastructure began its precipitous decline due to the “100% carbon dioxide air emissions tax.”

    CAFE standards would require every citizen to own at least one vehicle getting 50 miles to the gallon or else be required to buy a two-seat, solar paneled, vehicle for transporation.

    Animals would receive more civil protections than humans.

    Animals would be elevated to God-like status while humans are toys for the government to man handle.

    All federally funded schools would be required to say the “Pledge to Mother Earth” each day while expelling anybody trying to actually pray before or after the prayer.

    The defintion of “terrorism” at m-w.com would be changed to read: “Any Tea Party member or other citizen concerned about runaway government spending or government control over their daily life.”

    The federal gasoline tax would be increased to $3/gallon to encourage mass transit or bicycle riding.

    Check out my less than funny, but filled with common sense, blog at www.pointofdebate.blogspot.com

  • JimmyGee

    If Gore had won the election, we would not have O’Bummer now….

  • throwback59

    happened if Churchill had not become PM. Essentially the same conclusions could be applied to a Gore presidency.

  • http://www.FranBaker.com frankieb

    N/T

  • Jack_Savage

    There would have been no one else to blame for 9/11, and the Democrat Party would have ceased to exist as we know it today. Osama Bin Laden would be alive and well, controlling a caliphate that included Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the southeast of the old USSR, southwestern provinces of China and Dearborn, Michigan.

    Gore would have responded to the economic crisis created by the attacks on 9/11 with higher taxes, a huge stimulus, subsidies for green energy, imprisoning Texas legislators and forcing Hollywood stars and Maureen Dowd to give him “massages”. These policies would have failed miserably, especially the massages, and Texas would have seceded from the union, followed by every state but Vermont, Minnesota, Northern California, Dearborn, Michigan and every stop on the Green Line of the DC Metro.

    As a result, the United States – or really, Keith Ellison, the new Secretary of Defense and Treasury, having taken over leadership from Al Gore, who would remain in an undisclosed, carbon – neutral location for the rest of his life – would have defaulted on the debt, sparking an invasion from China. Al Gore / Ellison would reach an agreement with Osama Bin Laden and the two allies would use insurgent tactics on the invaders.

    The President of the new country formed after the secession, Rick Perry, would realize that he was no longer able to get maple syrup or Ben and Jerry’s due to the conflict, and that would REALLY piss him off. He would make an announcement from the front of the Alamo that the Confederation of Free States would enter the conflict on the side of Vermont, and if the others wanted to come along too that would be fine, but if China really wanted them that would be OK too.

    In three weeks, Perry and Generals Dick Cheney and George W. Bush would drive the Chinese back to Beijing and hand the country over to the Dali Lama and Tom Friedman. Perry would personally kill Osama Bin Laden with his laser sighted pistol as he walked his dog, and welcome everyone back into the Union, saying he was just kidding about China keeping them. An attempt would be made to make Perry king, but he would refer everyone back to the Constitution and retire to his ranch. Heroin would be made legal for liberals in order that they not overwhelm the mental health care system, and the former caliphate of Osama Bin Laden would enjoy incredible prosperity as poppy growers and rug makers.

    Paul Krugman would attempt to set himself on fire outside the offices of MSNBC but fail and wander the streets aimlessly for the rest of his life with a burned index finger, Chris Matthews would become a Jesuit priest, Rachel Maddow would marry Chas Bono and Keith Olbermann and the three would start a cooking show, and the rest of the outlier, communist news organization would become members of Falun Gong and spend their time as fixtures at airports throughout the country.

    Al Gore would never be seen again, and scientists would prove that without all his jet trips, carbon produced from his home in Tennessee and his big, fat mouth, the temperature of the earth would have dropped 2 degrees.

    On a serious note though, it would have sucked.

  • storminwgfp

    After 9/11 OBL would have been staying in the Lincoln Bedroom while he goes to anger management sessions. Can’t we all just get along?

  • wennejunk

    Had Gore won:

    - 9/11 would never have happened. Remember it is the Bush administration which failed to connect the dots in the 8 months they had to figure out what was going on (once they found all the ‘W’ keys for the computers and typewriters, that is). Instead, Al-Quaida, the Taliban, Saddam and the rest would promptly make peace with Gore and get busy on shutting down oil production to save the planet.
    -The impending 2000-01 recession, made worse by 9/11, would have promptly reversed as soon as the Goracle was sworn in. No market would ever crash again, because bubbles would never, ever, again occur.
    - We would still be in the land of unlimited Clinton-era surplus (thereafter called the ‘Gore-era surplus’), so much so that a comprehensive, free, national health care plan would be in place and all would willingly embrace it.
    -scientists would have found the DNA of extinct Unicorns in tree amber and would have cloned them so that Obama could have ridden into Grant Park on a unicorn to receive his blessing from Gore, just before ascending the throne.
    -There would be a solar panel on every house, a turbine in every yard and tofu in every pot (and pot in every tofu)
    -Nobody would laugh AT Gore…instead everyone would laugh WITH him.
    -He would not be insane.

  • msctex

    Had Gore won, we would have found ourselves in a similar situation to where we are now, as Progressive policies offer only the same dismal results no matter who is responsible for their implementation. The Economy would tank, just as it has under Obama, and we would have likely experienced a Republican landslide a la Reagan/Mondale in four years.

    One relevant difference, as Moe notes above, is that Gore under this scenario would at least have achieved the role he was reared to believe a birthright. He is unquestionably unravelling mentally and emotionally before all of our eyes, but having achieved the Presidency might — might — have allowed him to maintain his sanity. It is one thing to believe that it is your job to save the world. But to be denied the opportunity…There be dragons.

  • MikeG (Icythus)

    Saddam Huissein would still be alive and ruling Iraq with terror and violence.

    The rape rooms and torture chambers would still be in operation and doing brisk business.

    The collapse of “Oil For Food” would have taken the economic sanctions down with it, flooding the Ba’ath Party regime with money and securing international backing from the French, Russians, amd the ChiComms.

    American foreign policy would be centered, not on regime change, but on accomodation with evil, and preparing for the inevitable rise of either Uday or Qusay after their father’s death.

    Iraq and Iran would be engaging in a nuclear arms race, and there would not be a damn sight America could do about, short of unilateral military action. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria would probably all be getting in on the game too. The price of oil would be through the bloody roof.

    The world would be a darker, more evil place.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    that is why The One is president now.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    “Would President Gore have continued in the tradition of Clinton and treated it as a criminal investigation? CSI:9/11 ..? I am not sure how many of my fellow americans would have accepted that solution.”

    What choice would we have?

    They probably would have done the ‘bomb the training camps’ bit, and kept at it for years. As we see with Obama, Democrats in office *do* act differently then as candidates. So he would have done something, just not IMHO a ground war. Anyone who wanted more would have been listened to … and ignored.

    I dont think Gore would have ‘overreacted’ to the terrorists. OTOH, he would have overreacted to critics.
    The Gore Patriot Act would probably have tried national gun registration or other nonsense.

    I do recall right after 9/11 thinking “thank God we dont have Gore as President”. I stand by that.

  • smagar

    Here we have an MSM journalist fantasizing about an Al Gore presidency. (I use the word “fantasizing” on purpose, but “dreaming” is another verb that would work, too).

    On the Powerline blog, a senior producer for “Face The Nation”—a supposedly non-partisan show—shows his utterly partisan heart.

    I think the collapse of the Obama administration is getting to them. In 2008 they enabled this guy. What’s worse, all of their fawning for Obama, and news distortions/omissions on his behalf, are on record. YouTube and Google and Redstate and the conservative blogosphere never forget. And these MSMers know it.

    Obama is their guy. If he continues to flame out, they own him.

    Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna make a schadenfreude milkshake.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    2011, when the Chinese will no longer lend us money to buy the really good hallucinogens for the water supply, we all sober up, and we realize that:
    -9/11 did happen, and we were so wasted we didn’t even notice;
    -the impending 2000-01 recession did happen, and we have not recovered from it during the past decade;
    -the surplus dried up the moment AlGore was inaugurated because he spent it all on the first round of water supply supplements (read hallucinogens);
    -we realize that unicorns do not exist, and never existed because we have sobered up;
    -we have no electricity in our homes because all the nuclear, hydroelectric and fossil fuel power plants were shut down under executive order, and the only wind power is coming out of AlGore’s mouth.

  • acat

    Are we headed toward the English model, where every political group has one major network? (see joke below)

    I don’t see this as likely, but .. something’s going to have to evolve to take the role the MSM currently fills of paying the stringers. Doing the actual gathering of local news isn’t free, and until there’s an alternative to selling stories to the wires or to the MSM, we’re going to be stuck with them.

    If I had the savvy of a Breitbart, I’d be looking at how to build a “Chicago news wire” agency, hiring journos who can do proper, unshaded, “just the facts” stories …

    As the MSM gets more and more focussed on politicizing stories, they’re leaving tihs market underserved; it’s an opportunity… just not one I see a good way to leverage my skill set into.

    Mew

    Joke, as promised. You can tell a lot about a Brit by what paper he reads.

    Times readers run the country,
    Telegraph readers think they run the country,
    Guardian readers wish they ran the country,
    Mirror readers would run the country, if the Times readers didn’t run it already,
    Mail readers don’t know who runs the country,
    Express readers don’t care who runs the country,
    Sun readers don’t give a {darn} who runs the country
    -as long as her measurements exceed 38-24-36.

  • http://stevemaley.com Steve Maley

    9/11 would not have happened; in fact, Al Qaeda would have ceased to exist because Progressive policies would have restored peace and harmony to the world.

    The American military would be wearing blue helmets.

    Seal Team Six would be seeking out the last few remaining pockets of ManBearPig Global Warming Deniers.

    Air conditioning would be banned obsolete because AGW would have been solved.

  • acat

    My point is that, as we’ve found out recently, Gore has a tendency to lash out when contradicted. I would agree with everything you suggest re. the Gore version of the Patriot Act.

    I would, however, not expect the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the House of Saud to continue. Especially since the Saudis produce all that dirty oil…

    As for “what else could we do”, there was the 2002 election… Had the administration not presented clear results – beyond using $200,000 missiles to blow up $200 tents – I think it would have been a huge issue.

    Clinton wasn’t well liked or trusted on international issues, “Wag the dog”, the Chinese embassy bombing, etc. Dems generally are elected on domestic-agenda platforms. (Had W not run as a domestic-agenda “compassionate conservative”, we would have had president Gore, eh?)

    My guess was and is that President Gore would have found, in 2003, a large number of GOPers – likely foreign-policy hawks and defense-hawks – he’d have to work with to do *anything* in his second half of his first term.

    Like you, I think Bush was the better man for 9/11.

    Mew

  • pttx333

    Boy, I’ve learned that old saying the hard way – many times. ;-)

  • Next93

    9/11 happened because the terrorists thought we were a paper tiger, and with good reason; ever since VietNam, we’ve retreated every time someone bloodied our noses.

    If we had relied on the Clinton Doctrine of cruise missiles and visits from Madelene Albright to get the Taliban to give up Bin Laden, we would have been assured of another round of terrorists attacks.

    Nations like Libya would have renewed open support of terrorist groups, and once Saddm had managed to get the well-bribed French and German governments to let him out of the box we’d put him in after GWI, they would have joined up with Iran and Syria to plot ever more agressive attacks on US soil, probably armed with the WMD that he shipped off to Syria at the start of GWII.

    Thanks to W, the “arab street” may not love us (any more than it ever has), but they’ve seen what happens to people who try taking on the the US Marines in a head-to-head battle, and as a result there are a lot of mothers over there who won’t let thier sons become more cannon fodder.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    We would be in even more wars right now because he is insane.

    our economy would be even more screwed than it is right now because he is insane.

    We would be in a world of hurt right now because he is insane.

    Anyone who cannot see how insane Al Gore is is stupid and we pay no attention to them.

  • Next93

    1) Department of Global Climate Change (aka the Department of ManBearPig)
    2) Department of Renewable Energy and Biofuels (aka Deparment of Propellerheads, Blowhards, and Crap)

  • nvrepub

    nt

  • http://settleforschoolboard.com/ SamuelSettle

    Age of Tolerance by Glen Reinsford (http://www.amazon.com/Tolerance-Novel-Alternate-History-Allah/dp/0977216403). More of a satire than a Turtledove-esque AltHist, but well worth checking out (especially if you like dystopias).

  • Scope

    Al Gore cost Al Gore the election. Al Gore was a well known do nothing VP under Clinton. Clinton was so very unpopular by the time he left office with the Lewinsky flap mainly. Gore was seen by many as a huge elitist bore, and just coming off serving with a highly unpopular president, you could say it was an anything even related to Clinton election. Bush was no Reagan, but he was a step above McCain for sure. The strength on the GOP ticket was Cheney, and he was seen as the experienced adult in the room, at least by me anyway.

  • rightwingmom52

    There are few people walking this earth that I despise more than Algore. He truly tests my Christianity.

    Roll Tide! Getting ready for the Tennessee game.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    nt

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    because Islamist extremists killing each other, without the USA involved is sort of my fondest dream.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    Alec Baldwin, If we have not fled the country after Obama then I guess we are in this for the long haul.

  • johnt

    We can be sure of one thing Brent, there certainly would have been more Chinese money flowing into our campaigns, guess that doesn’t count as “special interests”.
    Al sure as hell would have given one hell of a speech after 9/11. don’t know what else though.
    The pro earth thing is interesting, do the nuts think everyone else is anti-Earth? Mad as hatters and going back in time as escape from the leftist debacle of the last 32 months. You tell yourself you’re superior then you fall for and support an idiot.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    It took a Reagan to get a Bush elected.

  • johnt

    It would be a real contest in the Hate and Misery Sweepstakes. Alas, we’ll never know who the Destruction champ would be. This is probably what’s eating at Budowsky.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    who can degrade our great nation to the point where it is not worth saving. And the great patriots are the ones who stay and take their country back, not the ones who leave their own country (read Iraq) and go to another country and beg that country’s leaders to depose their despotic leader. We stay and fight (and die, if necessary) for our country.

    P.S. I had my contribution check made out to help Alec Baldwin relocate, but he was all talk. At least he has a Conservative little brother.

  • renl57

    Even though Ted Rall is a far lefty, his take on “what if Gore had been elected in 2000″ is a lot less complimentary to Gore. Rall believes that Gore wouldn’t have made the same mistakes that Bush made–but Gore would have made other mistakes:

    http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0430-04.htm

    I hate to admit it, but Rall has a point. We got such a sucker-punch on 9-11 that Americans were sent reeling. Nobody knew exactly how to handle it–and any President would have made some mistakes.

  • renl57

    Ted Rall’s theory is that President Gore would have tried a “shock and awe” bombing campaign in Afghanistan. And Rall says that wouldn’t have worked either–Osama bin Laden would still have escaped.

    http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0430-04.htm

    He’s right.

  • rightwingmom52

    but if Obama’s re-elected, all bets are off. Just kidding.

    Seriously, I have too much family here to ever leave. The fact that my husband and I have even talked about it in jest is saying a lot, but I’m solidly in the stay and fight camp.

  • MikeG (Icythus)

    When Islamists fight anybody, even other Islamists, there tends to be a whole lot of innocent people lying around dead when all is said and done. Mainly because jihadis are horrible shots and have a hard-on for “martyrdom” bombings inside crowded markets and bus stations.

    Also, in any Muslim nukestorm that might take place, inevitably someone would remember to take out Israel.

  • Return to Revolution

    Right now about 500 thousand birds are killed by windmills annually. (for perspective, contrast with the ten million lost to power lines, the eleven million lost to cars and the five hundred million killed by cats every year) …. right now, even without Algore, its looking like prosecution is at least possible if your windmill kills a bird ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/wind-farms-under-fire-for-bird-kills/2011/08/25/gIQAP0bVlJ_story.html )

    So if Algore had won, I’d imagine we’d have to build a lot more prisons, just to keep up with the windmills, incandescent lighting and whatever other crimes against humanity might be conjured.

  • whit3

    …..are best left unspeculated! Thinking about an Al Gore presidency will make me have nightmares!

  • Scope

    Now you are going to knock Reagan. Bush 1 was Reagans VP. When he campaigned he promised “read my lips, no new taxes” and then as pres. called for new taxes. Bush 1 also worked against Reagan with his going against Reagan and his cold war agenda. Of course that wasn’t revealed at all until long after the Reagan admin. ended. If you remember your history correctly, the one who took Bush 1 out in the election was Ross Perot. Perot gave us Clinton, not Bush 1.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Colorado State Senate Majority Leader John “Per Diem” Morse had this to say about raising taxes in Colorado, (bolding mine),

    Raising taxes will slow the Colorado economy. And we heard public testimony that whether it’s Keynesian or monetary, or whatever, taking tax dollars out of the private economy slows the private economy. Okay. What about the government economy?

    You know they all think this, it’s just not very often that you can actually catch them saying it.

  • FlyingTigress

    … How quickly would a President Gore have capitulated to the turret-eyed reptilian overlords: the Race, from “Home” – if the attack fleet, headed by the superior male Fleettord Atvar, arrived on Sept 12th?

    /Turtledove sci-fi geek

    LOL

  • PGDeFreese

    nt

  • antisocial

    NT

  • 6eorge Jetson

    Climate Change is so the aughts.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    and subsequent balance sheet recession.

    And Democrats would have to find a label for the credit crunch other than the “Bush Years” dronespeak.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    and increase drone-based killings.

    But Heaven-forbid that we extract life saving information from three in the Top 5 and let them live afterward.

    I’m not criticizing Obama for these actions. I am condeming the Left and the MSM for their blatant hypocrisy.

  • johnt

    the sun always shines, all wishes are granted, and you are never, never wrong. A dream world where fantasies come true., the past explains away today’s policy flops and one clings to one’s image of superior intelligence and beneficial Mother Government.
    Now back to Sesame Street and lollipops. And encroaching psychosis.

  • bk

    for its contribution to air pollution and global warming. Then he would have offered to go give speeches on the importance of understanding AGW to the Taliban so they would think twice before doing it again.

  • RebelRoss0587

    This blog post is super juicy. It looks like they are going to start fighting back. It’s about time somebody took on these counter-productive ignoramuses!

    http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/09/04/misguided-freedomworks-protests-romneys-tea-party-appearance/

    If FreedomWorks gets their way, President Obama is going to get re-elected… Can’t we all just allow the candidates speak and let people decide for themselves!

  • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

    First, as an aside, algor is much pithier than algore. algor is a latin word meaning coolness or cold. Think about it.

    Anyhow, had algor won in 2000, I think he’d have been a one termer for the precise reasons he barely lost in 2000 and that the Republicans were able to keep momentum going in 2004. Compound that with algor’s ridiculous, economy stifling ideas on climate.

    We would then have had a Republican president, most likely John McCain… and he’d have been a one termer for obvious reasons.

    We’d then still have wound up with Obama and we’d still be in the pickle we’re in.

    I have a feeling that if a Republican wins in 2012, it’s entirely possible that they too might be a single termer as Obama will be. There’s just going to be too much poop hitting the fan. The pendulum is swinging too wildly right now. Maybe 2016 will see the dissolution of one or both of the major parties and the rise of some third parties to the new positions of top two.

  • dfeely

    If Algore had won, we would not have President Zero today.