“Were we any better with the RINO Bushes?”
Whole heartedly, yes.
Al. Gore. Think about that for a moment. The guy who was Bill Clinton sans the whimsy.
We would be dead right now. Talk to an australian about taking the garbage to the curb.
It would be difficult to find anyone who dislikes Gore more than I do.
And I do not believe Gore would have been a better president.
But there are a few other things to consider in this game of "What If?
Back then in the pre-Obama era republicans still had a little backbone and had not been fully broken in by Obama as democrat lapdogs.
In a Gore presidency the republicans would have had an adversarial relationship with the president.
In the Bush presidency republicans rolled over for Bush on just about every issue.
The republicans in the senate and house cooperated with Bush on the same liberal issues they would have fought Gore on.
Like Ted Kennedy's horrid "No Child Left Behind".
The republicans went along with Bush on budget deficits they would have fought Gore on.
Gore probably would not have invaded Iraq and opened up mid-east wars that have run for 14 years,
left Iraq and the mid-east worse than they were, blown $4 Trillion taxpayer dollars, and cost many thousand US KIA and WIA casualties.
AND THE BIG ONE:
If there hadn't been a Bush presidency there probably wouldn't have been an Obama Presidency.