Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

What If Counterfactuals Never Existed?
New Republic ^ | 20 Sep 2014 | Cass R. Sunstein

Posted on 09/29/2014 1:04:58 PM PDT by oblomov

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-55 last
To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

Forming Black states in the west would have made sense.

2006 in reverse, would have been sweet, yes.

I couldn’t see Jr. Bush getting a rematch in 2004, after 2 of the previous 3 elections had been a loss by a Bush after each had started out as the favorite.

McCain would have run again, George Allen may have run. Given the GOP penchant for rewarding the runner up of the last election, it probably would have been McCain.


41 posted on 09/29/2014 8:57:46 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: cynwoody; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA

I remember reading now that he liked to wave his junk around. I didn’t hear that he raped a chick though.

I guess good old Jimmuh Carter is only rat President in recent memory that wasn’t a deviant. He only “lusted in his heart”. ;d


42 posted on 09/29/2014 9:04:11 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Impy

Giving ex-slaves KS, NE, the Dakotas, et al, would’ve also helped fulfill the promise of 40 acres and a mule. I would’ve also thrown in free education (the very least they would’ve been owed) for all ex-slaves, child or adult. In those days, that would’ve truly meant something (sadly, today, education has been debased and dismissed as something to run from or something for “Whites.”).

Removing Blacks from former slave states would’ve also ensured their not falling back into the de facto slavery (via sharecropping) that effectively existed from the Reconstruction period to the modern era. Then again, former slave states probably would’ve compensated by exploiting the lowest White classes or encouraging the kind of mass-scale Hispanic migration to fill those roles long before the modern era (with Hispanics supplanting Blacks as the aggrieved racial class). Heaven forbid they pick their own cotton.


43 posted on 09/29/2014 9:19:56 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Impy

Jimmuh just likes raping the Jews and Israel. He’s an expert on that.


44 posted on 09/29/2014 9:20:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy

Sometimes, the can needs to be kicked down the road; this would have been a case where an imperfect solution would have been a solution.

Bottom line is: If the contraband had been dealt with, current situations wouldn’t exist.


45 posted on 09/30/2014 4:10:02 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj

All RATS are poisonous, one way or another.


46 posted on 09/30/2014 4:14:04 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: fieldmarshaldj

“I said at the time that Mike Ditka should’ve been drafted”


Unfortunately, Ditka thanked those who urged him to run but indicated that he would not run for the Senate. That’s when IL Republicans got desperate and sought out Keyes.

Of course, had the RINO Combine not forced Jack Ryan out of the race he could have beaten Obama even with the swingers-club allegations.


47 posted on 09/30/2014 7:32:00 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; BillyBoy

You’re forgetting that had Gore stolen Florida and become president, Republicans nationwide would have made their biggest threshold question “can our nominee win Florida”? I think that the 2004 nomination would have been Jeb Bush’s for the taking (particularly after his massive 2002 reelection).


48 posted on 09/30/2014 7:35:34 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

How could I forget Jeb?

Yes, if it would have been a Bush, it would have been him.


49 posted on 09/30/2014 8:36:01 AM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; cva66snipe; sickoflibs; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy

Imagine a world where Karl Marx’s mother was a HUGE abortion advocate...


50 posted on 09/30/2014 2:51:41 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: GOPsterinMA

How about killing Bill Clinton’s abusive stepfather? Bill would have stayed out of public life and lived a conventional middle class life.


51 posted on 09/30/2014 3:45:04 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: AuH2ORepublican

Good point, but I think there would’ve been a problem with the grassroots arguing nominating another Bush after 2 losses (1992/2000) would’ve been committing political suicide.


52 posted on 09/30/2014 4:10:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Clintonfatigued

Good call!!!


53 posted on 09/30/2014 4:41:15 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA

I forgot to ask you, if Roger Clinton had died Bill wouldn’t have gone into politics? Or he just would have failed with a name like “Blythe”? ;d


54 posted on 10/02/2014 11:07:15 AM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Impy; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

Good one! Yes, yes.


55 posted on 10/02/2014 1:04:51 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-55 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson