Congressional Rs also would have made the country ungovernable, attributing 9/11 to '12 years of Clinton/Gore's decimation of the military'.
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Republicans got a lot of mileage out of Clinton's draft-dodging and the perception that Clinton was "nation-building" with humanitarian interventions and misusing the US military. They would have crucified Gore.
(Never-mind the fact that much of the Base Closure and Realignment stuff and job losses in defense-related industries had happened in the late Reagan-Bush era.)
Agreed. And to answer the question, not a chance.