The Gore Presidency
By Clyde
Thursday, February 16, 2006
While recently surfing through some political websites I came across a question that just begs to be answered, it seems the Repugnicans were wondering what would have happened had Al Gore won in 2000. Now the fact that Gore actually did win and it was only because the Supreme Court stuck its nose into a State election to install Bush is of no consequence to these cretins. Putting all of that aside, let us look and see what a Gore presidency would have been like.
Nobody really knows if the attacks on 9/11 would or would not have happened if Gore were president but for the sake of argument let us assume that they would. Keeping that in mind does anyone believe that we would have seen a period of national unity like we experienced under Bush? Fuck no, the Republicans would have been screaming for Gore's testicles on a platter and only impeachment would have satisfied them. From the Barbiturate Behemoth to the Hitler Youth poster boy we would have been inundated with the daily howling about how we need to hold the president accountable for his failure of leadership. If Gore would have sat in a classroom reading the Pet Goat during the attacks does anyone think that the trans-testicle Adam's apple on a stick would not be calling for his assassination? If Gore had flown across the country only to give a speech from an underground bunker in Nebraska, how long would it take the falafel loving Loofa Lothario to begin calling him a coward? But being that Bush was at the helm the right wing spin machine was able to convince a large portion of the public that these actions were the product of strong leadership.
One thing that we know for sure is that the Iraq invasion would never have happened. The Republicans would not have allowed Gore to claim that we needed to take out Hussein because he possessed WMD and had unmanned aerial vehicles poised to attack the continental United States. Tom Delay and the rest of the chickenhawk brigade would have been whining about how Gore was taking his eye off of bin Laden in order to start a war of choice.
Can you imagine the shit storm that would be coming from the morons over at free republic if Lieberman had ordered his chief of staff to out a CIA operative in order to discredit a detractor? These whackos would not be questioning her undercover status, Joe Wilson would be a true patriot, and impeachment proceedings would have ended long ago.
With Gore as president we would not have spent the budget surplus on tax cuts for the top one percent of the population. If Gore were president we would have had a presidential veto of the Medicare rape and average Americans would still have the ability to declare bankruptcy. If Gore was president we would have seen an increase in Pell grants and America's children would still have their behinds. Gore may not have been able to stop the devastation of the gulf coast but I would bet dimes to dollars the survivors would be getting real relief by now.
The fact of the matter is that an unknown Gore presidency is much more appealing than the one we have now.
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