2000-2012 timeline

[liberalkid]

I'm at a dead end with my McGovern timeline, so i'll give myself one more chance with a new timeline.

[feeblepizza]

OK then....when will you start?

[liberalkid]

in the timeline year? 1998.  as for posting, when i collect my thoughts on who to have run

[ej2mm15]

in the timeline year? 1998.  as for posting, when i collect my thoughts on who to have run

Looking foward to it.

[liberalkid]

November 3rd, 1998
Congressional elections go badly for Republicans, as they lose 14 seats in a backlash from the Republican's personal attacks on Bill Clinton and Speaker Gingrich's incompetence.
House
Democrats:225 seats
Republicans:210



Representative Dick Gephart becomes the new Speaker of the House.

Senate:53 Republicans, 47 Democrats

November 30th- 27 days after the congressional election, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey forms an exploritory comittee for a presidential run

Other speculated candidates include Vice-President Gore, Governor Howard Dean, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Russ Feingold,  Governor Zell Miller, and Bob Kerrey

[liberalkid]

January 1st, 1999

former (editors note, LOOOONG TIME since he was an ambassador) Ambassador Alan Keyes announces he will run for the Republican presidential nomination.


I know that there are those Republicans who listen to some of the things I say, I've been having fascinating experiences the last little while. I was just in Michigan addressing a breakfast there, and I will run down all of the things that I see going on for some of the Republican's right now who are signing on with some of the other candidates who are willing to put the important issues on the back burner, stand aside, equivocate, vacillate, do whatever they have to to win votes. And I will just point out that we need to stand with integrity for our principles, and we have to have leaders who won't equivocate, and do you realize that these folks, many of whom have already pledged their souls to those who are failing to pursue this agenda, they'll stand up and applaud and they'll act like they really care about this. The sad truth is that truth has its power. It moves the hearts even of those who do not have the heart to act according to its obligations. What we must try to do within the Republican Party today is bring the healing influence of the real grass roots to a cadre of leadership that has lost its way in the confusions of ambition and power. This is something that from time to time the people of this country are called to do if we are to preserve our heritage of self-government. It is hard work. It will require that in spite of all hesitation and embarrassment and this and that, we show a willingness to stand in our own circles, in our own families, amongst our own friends and our own workplaces, in our own churches, to issue the call for an unequivocal commitment to this agenda of principle. But I believe that if we are willing to do so, then that faithfulness will indeed be rewarded by our God, with a victory that will help to restore the hope that alone can come in this country from our dedication to the moral spirit of reverence for truth and for God that is in fact the basis of our claim to rights, and our hope for justice and liberty. Thank you very much. (applause) -Note, actual speech

[liberalkid]

January 15th:
Clinton Approval ratings:
Approve:68
Dissaprove:29
Not sure:3

January 20th

Senator Robert Smith of New Hampshire announces he will run for President as a Republican


What kind of a President will I be? In order to know that, you have to know what kind of person I am.

I don't have a big name or a huge family trust fund. I was raised on a small farm by a single mom and two loving grandparents. My beliefs came not through political calculation or polling or focus groups or consultants or the talking heads on the Sunday Morning talk shows. They were ingrained in my spirit through my life's experiences. Today, I want to share with you how those experiences in life have molded my conservative philosophy, and how I would like to use those experiences and that philosophy to lead this nation into the 21st century as President of the United States.

The great conservative New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson (Kelly's granddad) told me once "You either stand for something, or you stand for nothing." That is why I have never wavered. I am in politics to make a difference for you, not to make a career for me.

I am not a leap year conservative, showing up every four years telling you what you want to hear. I have been fighting the fight, day after day for 15 years in the House and Senate. I might be a new face, but I'm an old warrior..
January 20th-30th: Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, Congressman Bob Dornan of California, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, former Governor Lamar Alexander, all form exploratory committees.

[Bo]

Very nice. Please continue.

[Mr. Morden]

Wait, so, just to clarify, does this mean that the lame duck GOP Congress does not go forward with the impeachment of Clinton?  And I assume that Gingrich steps down as GOP leader in the House?  Who takes over for him?

[liberalkid]

Wait, so, just to clarify, does this mean that the lame duck GOP Congress does not go forward with the impeachment of Clinton?  And I assume that Gingrich steps down as GOP leader in the House?  Who takes over for him?

1: the lame duck congress does not attempt to impeach
2. Dennis Hastert takes over, and becomes Minority leader

[liberalkid]

Back after a long Hiatus.
February 14th

Representative Bob Dornan announces he will run for President. the ultraconservative immediately embarks on a bus tour of Iowa. He gives out free candy at all his events.

February 19th

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee announces he will run for President.

February 20th-
Clinton Approval/disapproval/unsure
66/30/4

National Polling:
Who do you intend to support for the Republican nomination for President?
Lamar Alexander: 11%
Alan Keyes:10%
Robert Smith:8%
Bob Dornan:4%
Unsure/undecided: 67%