Thread for "What If" stories.....

[JohnFKennedy]

1968:

The Kennedy Administration was going badly. Troops had been sent into Vietnam and the war was a stalemate. Race riots occurred when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was caught in an act of bugging the republican National Headquarters. President Kennedy’s presidency was falling in around him. When things couldn’t get any worse, the Tett Offensive began and the 1968 Election approached. The Republican front runner was Richard M. Nixon. He was more prepared then the man who had lost in 1960. Nixon had traveled the world and strengthened his grasp of foreign policy by traveling the world. Other republicans were Governor Rockefeller of New York and Governor Romney of Michigan. In July 1968, Richard Nixon was nominated for president. He called on the “Great Silent Majority” to stand up for America and elect strong leaders. Governor Romney was nominated for vice president. After a tough primary with Senator Eugene McCarthy, President Kennedy was re-nominated by the Democrats. He and Humphrey faced a strong challenge from Nixon and the American Freedom candidate, Alabama Governor George Wallace and General Curtis E. LeMay. The election hinged on the Vietnam War. Nixon promised “peace with honor, not surrender.” Kennedy wanted to stay the course in Vietnam. Wallace wanted to bomb North Vietnam into the Stone Age. He violently opposed integration, bussing, Social Activism, and hippies. His campaign appealed to blue collar workers all over the country. Election Day showed a Nixon landslide:

Richard Nixon/George Romney: 343
John Kennedy/Hubert Humphrey: 141
George Wallace/Curtis LeMay: 54    

I have to disagree with you here, JFK wouldn't have handled the war anything like LBJ, JFK was a serious hawk, he wouldn't have sat around on the defensive, he would have been seriously aggressive with Vietnam and it wouldn't have been anything like that sort of disaster, Kennedy would have won it by 1972 and with things going strongly there and his economic policies and the such would have won him re-election.

[JohnFKennedy]

1968:

The Kennedy Administration was going badly. Troops had been sent into Vietnam and the war was a stalemate. Race riots occurred when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was caught in an act of bugging the republican National Headquarters. President Kennedy’s presidency was falling in around him. When things couldn’t get any worse, the Tett Offensive began and the 1968 Election approached. The Republican front runner was Richard M. Nixon. He was more prepared then the man who had lost in 1960. Nixon had traveled the world and strengthened his grasp of foreign policy by traveling the world. Other republicans were Governor Rockefeller of New York and Governor Romney of Michigan. In July 1968, Richard Nixon was nominated for president. He called on the “Great Silent Majority” to stand up for America and elect strong leaders. Governor Romney was nominated for vice president. After a tough primary with Senator Eugene McCarthy, President Kennedy was re-nominated by the Democrats. He and Humphrey faced a strong challenge from Nixon and the American Freedom candidate, Alabama Governor George Wallace and General Curtis E. LeMay. The election hinged on the Vietnam War. Nixon promised “peace with honor, not surrender.” Kennedy wanted to stay the course in Vietnam. Wallace wanted to bomb North Vietnam into the Stone Age. He violently opposed integration, bussing, Social Activism, and hippies. His campaign appealed to blue collar workers all over the country. Election Day showed a Nixon landslide:

Richard Nixon/George Romney: 343
John Kennedy/Hubert Humphrey: 141
George Wallace/Curtis LeMay: 54    

I have to disagree with you here, JFK wouldn't have handled the war anything like LBJ, JFK was a serious hawk, he wouldn't have sat around on the defensive, he would have been seriously aggressive with Vietnam and it wouldn't have been anything like that sort of disaster, Kennedy would have won it by 1972 and with things going strongly there and his economic policies and the such would have won him re-election.

I have to say that my facts may have been off, but I wanted Nixon to be president. I should of waited until 1976, but then Reagan would of never been president.

lol, interesting reason.

[JohnFKennedy]

nah, if you read my story for what if JFK wasn't assassinated, I had all 3 Kennedy's as President at one point or another lol, we are all partisan and have favourites.

[JohnFKennedy]

I will give you the first one shortly.
 It started as 'what would happen if JFK is not murdered' and goes like this:

JFK get reelected, vietnam is a lesser issue with less GI's. after 2 full terms the president's brother RFK is elected (full 2 terms) and in 76' Teddy Kennedy wins. but in 1980 he loses to one Ronald Reagen. after 20 Kennedy years the next 20 are what we know - Reagen, Bush sr, Clinton.
In 1999 JFK jr do not die in a crash plane but after his father pressure seek the presidency and narrowly defeat bush jr in 2000 with 537 votes margin in FL. the Kennedy again controlled the white house. but JFK jr plane does crash in july 2001 and vp Al Gore is President. he wants to nominate sen john Kerry as vp but a sex scandal rules thats out. on 9/11 the plane that was aim at the white house hit the west wing and kills president gore. with no vp the speaker of the house Dennis Hastert become president.....  
 

list:
JFK        1961-1969
RFK       1969-1977
teddy k 1977-1981
reagen  1981-1989
bush sr 1989-1993
clinton   1993-2001
JFK jr     2001
gore      2001
hastert 2001-
     
 

 

Three Kennedys in a row! I don't think our nation could handle it!

check out my post in what if JFK was not assassinated, I have the 3 kennedy's, not in a row though, it isn't too partisan but it is pretty unlikely lol.

[JohnFKennedy]

Errr, does that have Charlton Heston as President?

Oh dear, mass exodus to Canada.

[JohnFKennedy]

Sorry for the double post, I didn't think I'd get this done so soon.

2004:

The Presidential election drags on with neither side gaining a permanent lead. John Kerry picks John Edwards as his Vice President in hope to lure some southern states. Throughout the year the economy keeps increasing with thousands of new jobs created brining the total up to 2.8 million jobs returned to the public. The Iraqi conflict being a thorn in President Bush’s side even though the condition doesn’t improve. In late October, taking the initiative, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld resign and are replaced with Rudy Giuliani as Vice President and John McCain as Secretary of Defense.
With their help President Bush retains the presidency with a larger gap then expected.

Bush/Giuliani: 359
Kerry/Edwards: 179

2005:

While swearing in President Bush Al-Queda launches a massive terrorist attack on Washington DC by dozens of suicide bombers. While most of the attack is prevented some small pockets go off killing under 50 people, among which, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. The year goes by regularly quietly with several major protests against the US in Ontario, Canada and France and a couple hundred thousand of new jobs being created and unemployment falling to 4.6%.

2006:

When Congress reopens President Bush introduces three monumental bills. The first to activate the National Guard and round up all illegal aliens. in the US and sending them back to Mexico along with sealing off the southern boarder to all illegal traffic and to shoot anyone on site no questions asks. The second is to have a vote in Puerto Rico for either statehood or freedom, no “stay the way we are” vote allowed. The third is to ban abortion from 8 weeks on, the reason is that the fetus gets a heartbeat at that date and nothing without a heartbeat is alive. Debate rages on all three issues and the Puerto Rico bill easily passes by early July. Meanwhile Israel launches massive attacks on Palestinian settlements in early February and has succeeded in driving most of them out of Israel and into Syria.

2007:

Puerto Rico votes in mid-March and the vote is overwhelmingly in favor of Statehood with a vote of 98% for statehood to 2% for independence. Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state on April 1st. By late April Congress has grudgingly passed the last two bills and massive raids begin throughout the country. 30,000 illegals from all countries are detained and shipped back to their country of origin. The National Guard is now posted along the boarder with Mexico and is supplied with state-of-the-art military weaponry for the job at hand. Illegal immigration suddenly comes to a halt as the bodies begin to pile up along the boarder and the flow north begins to slacken. Most abortions also drop dramatically and the future looks in great shape. Rudy Giuliani announces he is seeking the Republican nomination for President in the 2008 election. A host of Democrats also throw in their names with none other than Hillary Clinton. By late 2007 Syria, Lebanon and Egypt have raised massive armies and aimed them at the heart of Israel.

2008:

Hillary and Rudy barely scrape thorough the primaries and caucuses with a majority lead of less than 15 delegates each. Both candidates pick their Vice Presidential candidates early in the election, Hillary with her husband, Bill Clinton, and Rudy with Jeb Bush. Nader also announces that he’ll run for the Progressive Party yet again and throws a surprise punch by nominating Howard Dean as his Vice Presidential candidate.. Israel’s armies have defeated the three opposing nations by early July and completely annexed all of Syria and Lebanon and all the Sinai Peninsula. The campaigning goes on as normal with Hillary’s popularity falling throughout the campaign. On election day Puerto Rico votes for the first time and it comes in at a complete tie early in the night. With Congress still in cession and still in Republican hands they quickly vote for all the electoral votes to go to Rudy. In the end the election throws a major surprise winning Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Delaware.

Giuliani/Bush: 408
Clinton/Clinton: 94
Nader/Dean: 44

Rudy wins in a virtual landslide and with Nader’s upset the Progressive Party gains federal funds and the US officially gains a third party!

Clinton/Clinton?

Isn't Bill constitutionally ineligible to be Hillary's Vice President.