lets play "what might have been" 9/11 NEVER happened...what happened to shrub?

[greenbriar]

who would have run and won in 2004


how big of a tail between w's legs would it have been?

[Thurston Howell III]

1. Dean would have been elected in 2004.

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. Welcome to DU, Thurston Howell III!

:hi:

[Thurston Howell III]

9. Thank you!

[Warpy]

5. I doubt it. The DLC was still running the party

and they never would have allowed an outsider to do an end run around them and gain office.

They fully expected to be able to neutralize him in the position of DNC chair. They were wrong and the party is better off because of it.

However, Kerry might have won if Stupid had gotten us into the Iraq disaster on some pretext, and he would have. He campaigned on it. Without the outpouring of jingoism and the kind of frustration that demanded action from some he man leader, he'd have been hard pressed to justify any of it after the WMDs failed to materialize.

He'd have been a goner.

[Thurston Howell III]

10. True. But the party would have not been so cautious.

Anyways, I like to think it.

[mac2]

8. Nope.

His global trade policies would not fly with Iowans.

[CJCRANE]

2. There would have been a 10/11 or 11/11.

Or a more sustained anthrax campaign.

[mac2]

6. They would not have had a reason to remove our democracy

and move the boxes around to destroy Civil Service. They would not have had a reason to rob our tresury for "Homeland Security". FEMA would not exist and NO might have had less damage and death. ETC...we would have been better off and so would the ME and Afghanistan.

[teamster633]

4. For the first time in the history of the rEpublican party...

...a sitting pResident is challenged and loses in the primary. Little Boots finally manages to do something no one else had ever done.

[mac2]

7. That and been the most corrupt /treasonous President in history

[orleans]

11. a dem would have won. doesn't matter who or which one.

my life and yours would have been easier, happier, and far better

the lives of people around the world would have been untouched by the outstretched evil arms of the gop, thereby making their lives easier, happier and far better

the world would certainly be a different place.

[alfredo]

12. If 9-11 had never happened they would have found reason to attack

Iraq anyway. 9-11 just made their sales pitch easier.

[Doctor Cynic]

13. Nothing would haev happened. 9/11 always happens every year.

Every year, between 9/10 and 9/12.

[lame54]

14. They cheated in 2004 and won just like 2000...

9/11 or not they would have cheated