George H.W. Bush wins in 1992?

[darklordoftech]

Waco = Waco

I wonder how the NRA and Tim McVeigh would have reacted to Waco if it happened under HW and Barr instead of Clinton and Reno. m

Also, no Clintons = less intense culture wars.

[darklordoftech]

I wonder what would become of McVeigh. His belief in right-wing conspiracy theories about Waco was what drove him to bomb OK City.

[darklordoftech]

Does anyone know why George H. W. Bush picked Dan Quayle as his running-mate instead of Jack Kemp who was also considered on the Veep list in 1988? 

HW probably thought that Quayle had more appeal to the Religious Right and to rural voters.

[darklordoftech]

The Waco Siege and Somalia might not happen.

If the Republican Revolution is delayed until 1998, it wouldn’t result in all those “law and order” policies because “law and order” wasn’t an issue in 1998 or later. If W isn’t elected Governor until 1998, he wouldn’t be ready for the Presidency in 2000. A Democrat who’s first elected in 1996 would be re-elected on “peace and prosperity” in 2000, putting a Democrat in control of foreign policy in 2001-2004  (which likely means more effort to capture or kill Bin Laden and less regime change).