Posted on 06/15/2017 11:14:23 AM PDT by MNDude
If you could change any presidential election so the presidential candidate loser would win, for example John McCain would have become president in 2008 instead of Obama, which election would you change?
There would not have been an LBJ.
It’s amusing to think that doing so would made any substantial difference. Same puppeteers, same script, different puppets.
I was thinking along the same lines but even before 64. I’d like to have seen Nixon win in 1960, hopefully keeping us out of Vietnam, and then the radicalization we saw in the 60’s and early 70’s might not have been so great.
This is what has really destroyed this country, the radical break from traditional values and work ethics largely attributable to the 1960’s. I honestly don’t know if we’ll ever recover.
Without the Vietnam war to rally around though the radicalization may not have gained as much traction as it did. Who knows though. We’re stuck in this reality I guess.
1992
Yeah I would think no Carter would have the best results.
I actually have an old political cartoon produced during the primaries that year. It shows Bill as one of the democrats, each floating down a river on a tire tube to certain doom over a waterfall. bill is in the front and on his tube are the words “Genifer Flowers”.
Also, no “real” candidates joined that race for the dems because Bush’s numbers were absurdly high. When they dropped like a rock, it was too late to enter. The “viable” candidate at the top of the pack won the lottery.
I’d have Perot win. Just to see what would happen.
“Without the Vietnam war to rally around though the radicalization may not have gained as much traction as it did. Who knows though.”
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I think it would have happened anyway,just as it did in the 1920s-——and as it is changing now.
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Ford should have waited until he beat Carter to pardon Nixon. I have always thought that many people didn’t vote for Ford because of the pardon. We wouldn’t have the Iran problem. Maybe
We have a winner.
Easy, 1860. No Lincoln. No War of Yankee Aggression. Slavery becomes economically unfeasible. Blacks choose between African return or resettlement in New Mexico Territory.
1992 was my first thought, but had Reagan secured and won the election four years earlier, we might’ve had no Iran debacle, and the economic misery of the Carter years would’ve likely been forestalled. Not to mention that the evil Empire may have been defeated earlier, with the help of John Paul II and lady Thatcher coming on the stage at that time.
Interesting mind game, but who knows… some liberal film director would probably make it into an alternate universe flick with 1984 coming about that year per Orwell, knowing how Reagan was treated.
Obama
No mujahedeen, therefore no rise of Al Qaida. The Islamic threat would have been contained by middle eastern dictators ("They might be sons of bitches, but they're OUR sons of bitches").
The only reason that Clinton even got the Democrat nomination in 1992 is because Bush Sr.’s approval ratings were sky high immediately after the first Gulf War, when Democrats were all deciding whether or not to run. All of the then “A list” Democrats decided not to run believing that Bush was unbeatable, leaving Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, Paul “The Last Democrat Candidate from Massachusetts Did So Well, Why Not Nominate Another” Tsongas, and Bill “I Can’t Be Any Worse Than Those Other Losers” Clinton.
If Bush Sr. had won in 1992, then a Democrat would probably have won in 1996. I have no idea who that would have been (maybe Algore), just that it probably would not have been Clinton.
So if Bush had won a second term in 1992, I think we would have ended up with the unknown Democrat in 1996 and 2000, Bush Jr. in 2004 and 2008, and Obama or Hillary in 2012 and 2016.
I would have voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964, but voting age was 21 and I wouldn’t qualify until the next National election.
1988 Robert Dole. Still a moderate but a lot of stature.
In 2016 we did! Wishes no more!
Definitely Goldwater, 1964.
Ford was the nominee in 76.
I have mixed feelings. If Ford beats Carter, we probably wouldn’t have gotten Reagan in 1980.
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