If George W. Bush had been a Democrat:

[Flying Squirrel]

Fox News would have been running stories and commentary suggesting that he might be a secret Nazi, based on his grandfather Prescott Bush.

Fox News would have scared their viewers about his illegal surveillance of Americans, and suggested that at any time, any one of them could be picked up and tortured.

Fox News would have aired the video of him watching the kid read "My Pet Goat" after planes crashed into the WTC, blamed him for the attacks since he'd been on vacation and ignored intel prior to the attacks, and possibly even suggested that he had known it would happen and had ulterior motives for welcoming the attacks.

Fox News viewers would have been reminded of the fact that he had stolen the presidency, constantly, throughout both terms.

Please add your own.

[niyad]

1. they would have run with the awol story, and the drunk driving charges.

AND the fact that his wife killed a man.

[beac]

15. Don't forget the cocaine charges!

Oh, and using his power as TX governor to issue himself a new, unblemished, drivers license number.

[LaurenG]

2. And he would have be impeached and possibly sent to the Hague. nt

[bigwillq]

3. Hello

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[geek tragedy]

4. Laura Bush's vehicular homicide would have been very prominent. nt

[MisterP]

5. this place would be a ghost town, since all the fury of 2001-08 would've been directed

against the Fearless Unquestionable Leader of FDR's Holy Party

the remainder would be those conservadems for bootlicking and obedience, police brutality, legislative Victory regardless of the law's effects, war for resources or against national independence, low wages, environmental decimation, an end to Social Security, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, corporate rule of American lives, Wall Street bailouts, and corruption

on edit: silly me, I forgot to welcome you to DU

[FiveGoodMen]

6. DU would support his wars.

[Soylent Brice]

16. FTW

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. That he made a fortune with the Bin Laden family. Therefore he's a terrorist. nt

[niyad]

8. welcome to DU, belatedly

[Catherina]

9. And the same contortionists would be twisting themselves into pretzels

And the same party blind contortionists would be twisting themselves into pretzels to support everything he did.

[yurbud]

10. the would have run the stories about Jeff Gannon checking in when there was no press event

and made it absolutely clear that the only logical client was the Crawford Caligula.

http://mysite.verizon.net/myk15/bushhugsmanho.html

[Sheepshank]

11. Fox News would

be all woe and gnashing of teeth over Bush holding back medical technology all for the sake of his own personal religious beliefs.

[Eric Condon]

12. He never would've been appointed in the first place

Bizarro world Republican candidate "Al Gore" would've been presumed to better serve the interests of the owners, so he would've been appointed instead.

[Flying Squirrel]

13. True dat. nt

[Festivito]

14. Would have been called too dumb, got mad, and then sold out the country for revenge.

Oh, that was Reagan?

[Capt. America]

17. He would have been too "pro-Muslim" by holding hands and kissing King Faud.

[Balbus]

18. The Pet Goat

If you're going to put something in quotes, you should at least quote it correctly so as not to come off as an idiot.

[Flying Squirrel]

19. Yes, because getting a single word of a book title wrong

definitely makes a person look like an idiot.

Whereas characterizing a person as an idiot for a single mistake, well that just makes them come off as... something much better than an idiot.

I must congratulate you on your perfection, I'm sure you've never gotten anything wrong in your life. Makes one wonder why you would waste your time on the likes of me.

[Balbus]

20. Don't mention it.

[madamesilverspurs]

21. If he'd been a Democrat

we'd have run his pissy ass out of the party for being so damn stupid. Then he'd have retaliated by blowing up some frogs on his way to register as a Republican. He would have been discovered by Karl Rove, who would have installed the necessary strings and pullies, with proper notifications to Murdoch et al. Same old, same old.


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