2016With nomination of "liberty Republican" Shua by the Republicans and hardcore "true leftist" and gun enthusiast T.N.F. by the Democrats, the nation's establishment was in a panic. Both of the candidates represented totally new ways of doing business, ways that would threaten the entrenched hierarchy in Washington D.C. Secretly, members of the Obama cabinet convened with former Bush staffers to nominate their own candidate. Eventually, they agreed on former Senator Leif Prescott of New York. A candidate from 2008, his vote in favor of the Iraq War had doomed him in the Democratic primaries that year. Two years later, he was primaried from the left. Nevertheless, he'd been an outspoken defender of the Obama administration after the election and supported intervention in Syria. In order to attract Republicans, J. Walter Mitty, a former Republican who'd been in Bush's cabinet as Secretary of Defense, was chosen for Vice President. The ticket rallied around such phrases as "war is peace" and "freedom is slavery" so as to encourage voters to stand behind the bi-partisan establishment ticket. Despite getting large returns in the East, they would fail to win, though the election was sent to the House of Representatives, which elected Shua for President and Schweitzer Vice President.
