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

[Archangel_Mikey]

2000

In 1999, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura announced that he was going to run for president under the American Union Party, which he formed.  The AUP was popular in Minnesota, Vermont, and Illinois.  Green Party candidate Ralph Nader died of a heart attack while campaigning in Kansas, and was replaced by Greg Fredrickson, a young and energetic candidate.  

Democratic candidate Al Gore saw a disturbing trend in the south.  He saw less and less southern states voting Democratic each year. So, he began focusing resources on many southern states such as Virginia and the Carolinas, hoping to win these states, but focus less on northern tates

On election night, Gore’s gamble paid off.  He won every state that Clinton did in the south, along with Virginia and South Carolina.  What was a big surprise was that the Green Party won California, but it didn’t matter.  Gore/Lieberman had raked up nearly 300 electoral votes.

FINAL VOTE
Al Gore/Joseph Lieberman 298
George W. Bush/Richard Cheney 163
Greg Fredrickson/Winona LaDuke 54
Jesse Ventura/Patrick Buchanan 26

2004

On September 11, 2001, terrorist detonated dirty bombs in New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., killing vice-president Joseph Lieberman.  Gore, and the nation, was outraged at this.  Gore replaced Lieberman with senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.  On September 20th, 2001, the United Nations Defense Council declared war on Afghanistan.  Gore ordered that the Taliban hand over Osama bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda, or face the consequences.  The Taliban didn’t listen.

Only for the second time in world history, nuclear weapons were used for the first time in anger.  No nation stood in the way of the United States’ use of nuclear weapons.  The remnants of the Taliban government agreed to handover bin Laden to the United States, and would be occupied for ten years.

By 2003, Gore had cut taxes for the middle class, and the economy was excellent.  On March 17th, 2003, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein used a Scud missile to launch chemical attacks against Israel.  The United States and Israel responded in kind, with Baghdad lost in the nuclear fire of a tactical nuke, and other major cities gassed by Israeli and American missiles.

By the time November, 2004 had rolled around, the Republicans picked John McCain as their candidate, and Rudolph Giuliani as his vice-president.  On election night, Socialist Unionist Eguene Wilson won Minnesota, Indiana, Vermont, and Iowa.  Gore swept the nation, winning all states but Midwestern states.

FINAL VOTE
Al Gore/John Kerry 452
John McCain/Rudolph Giuliani 52
Eguene Wilson/David McReynolds 33 Socialist

[Archangel_Mikey]

I know dirty bomb attacks is a little implaussible, but I'll explain it later.

[Archangel_Mikey]

2008

The economy was excellent, and their was still a massive surplus.  Gore again cut taxes for the middle class, and raised the income tax for the wealthy very little.

The Republican Party was going on hard times now, with a socialist party having almost as many electoral votes as they did.  John Ashcroft drove another nail in the coffin of the Republican Party in 2006.  In 2002, Ashcroft was elected governor of California, and was considered a possible vice-presidential candidate for 2004, but wasn’t picked.  He was publicly acceptant of this in public, but privately, hated McCain for it.  So, in the midterm elections, he split the Republican Party in half.  The religious right and reactionary parts of the party split, and formed the Constitutional Reform Party.

The Socialist Union Party, a rough coalition of the Socialist and American Union Party split, with Jesse Ventura taking the Unionist Party away, along with Minnesota and Vermont.

The Republicans, weakened by Ashcroft and the Reformists, turned to Rudolph Giuliani for help.  Giuliani won every single primary in 2008, and by the time the convention rolled around, he looked to be the choice.  He was, and he picked Collin Powell as his vice-president.

The Democrats picked Vice-president John Kerry as their candidate, and Kerry picked South Carolinian Senator John Edwards as his vice-president.  And Gore approved of this.

On election night, Kerry pulled a head early, winning all the states that Gore won, plus Ohio, winning easily.  The Socialists won Indiana and Iowa, and the Unionists won Vermont and Minnesota.  And Ashcroft won Mississippi.

FINAL VOTES
John Kerry/John Edwards 312
Rudolph Giuliani/Collin Powell 141
Eugene Wilson/ David McReynolds 19
Jesse Ventura/Eric Redding 14
John Ashcroft/Patrick Buchanan 7

2012

On January 22nd, 2009, the American Intelligence Bureau (in 2003, President Gore disbanded the CIA, and placed all intelligence gathering to the new AIB) discovered that North Korea had given the al Qaeda to use in the 9/11 attacks.  Kerry, in response, begins shifting to forces to the Korean Peninsula, along with UN support.

On March 2nd, 2009, a North Korean Naval attack boat attacked the USS Churchill, disabling it, giving President Kerry the chance to strike.  The next day, the Second Korean War began as 1.6 million American, British, French, German, Spanish, and other Allied soldiers poured into North Korea, with another 2.1 million behind it.  Kim Jong IL ordered biological attacks against Allied soldier.  On April 4th, 2009, anthrax and saran was released by North Korean forces, pushing the Allied back.

On March 5th, 2009, the American struck back, nuking Pyongyang, Nampo, and North Korean reserve forces, numbering 1.1 million soldiers.  Kim Jong Il, unfortunately, was in China trying to get the Chinese to get involved, but the Chinese president Li Ru Ping didn’t want to.  

Hearing of this, Il ordered nuclear retaliatory strikes against the Allies.  But before he could do this, his top aide, Yong Jung Shin, assassinated him.  On May 10th, 2009, the Second Korean War came to an end as Shin brokered a peace agreement between America and North Korea.  

After this, President Kerry’s approval ratings soared.  The Mint redesigned the dime, ten, twenty, and fifty dollar bills, by placing Reagan on the dime, John F. Kennedy on the ten, Theodore Roosevelt on the twenty, and Franklin D. Roosevelt on the fifty.

The Republicans, again, nominated Rudolph Giuliani as their presidential candidate, with Condoleezza Rice as his vice-president.  Come November, Kerry did the same as he did back in 2008, but with Iowa going Democratic and Alabama going to Ashcroft, and Ohio going to the Socialists.

FINAL VOTES
John Kerry/John Edwards 310
Rudolph Giuliani/Condoleezza Rice 120
Eugene Wilson/Warren Short 31
John Ashcroft/Daniel Benson 16
Jesse Ventura/Howard Dean 14