Reply #13: Nightmare scenario [View All]

This raises a frightening thought: if Gore was serving as president on 9/11, the 2000 election may very well have been the last ever for the Democratic Party

Okay, before you light your torches, folks, let me say that the continuity between Clinton and Gore, the Clinton team's success in diffusing the terrorist attack on LAX, and the subordination of ideology to competency in a Gore Administration all may have led to a pre-emptive strike against Al-Qaida...but for the sake of discussion let's just say not. Let's just say the bureaucratic screw-ups and institutional rivalries that existed would've opened the door to the terrorists regardless of which party was in charge. You put that against OBL's activities through the Clinton years and the GOP's taste for the jugular, and you might fairly say that the Supreme Court saved the Democratic Party by giving the election to Bush.