Bush vs. Gore/Kerry II: The Recountening

[Kleves]

I'm curious; Bush may have been a crappy President, but was he better than the alternative? If you could revote (or vote at all) in the 2000/2004 US Presidential elections, would your vote have changed at all with hindsight? If your votes would not have changed in either election, vote in the 'unchanged' category. If, however, you would change your vote in either 2000 or 2004, vote in the 'changed' category. If you wasted your vote on a third-party candidate, well, congratulations on finding a way to make your vote matter less.

My vote, btw, would probably be unchanged: Gore/Bush.

[Valmy]

I live in Texas so what I think doesn't matter.

[DGuller]

The second term Bush wasn't actually nearly as horrendous as the first term Bush, especially after he was de-testicled following his attempt to end Social Security.  I'm not sure how his second term would stack up against a hypothetical Kerry term, though.  My guess is Kerry would be about as weak and ineffective as Obama.

[Grey Fox]

Of course. You wouldn't have the craziest deficit ever!

[The Brain]

My letters to the American voter telling him how to vote would have been the same.

[Admiral Yi]

A Kerry victory in 2004 would have meant a withdrawal from Iraq before Teh Surge.  I'm happy with my vote for Bush in 04.

[Ed Anger]

Still Bush over Al Bore and Longface and his eggplant wife.

[grumbler]

There is a possibility that Kerry or Gore could have been worse Presidents than Bush, but it is hard to see how.  I am not sure that Kerry would have withdrawn from Iraq before the surge, but the odds are good enough to make him worth voting for.

[Razgovory]

A Kerry victory in 2004 would have meant a withdrawal from Iraq before Teh Surge.  I'm happy with my vote for Bush in 04.

Did Kerry say he was going to withdraw during the election?

[Razgovory]

I have a hard time imagining anyone but Bush would have invaded Iraq.  It's not really the most obvious thing someone would do.

[Ideologue]

I'm curious; Bush may have been a crappy President, but was he better than the alternative? If you could revote (or vote at all) in the 2000/2004 US Presidential elections, would your vote have changed at all with hindsight? If your votes would not have changed in either election, vote in the 'unchanged' category. If, however, you would change your vote in either 2000 or 2004, vote in the 'changed' category. If you wasted your vote on a third-party candidate, well, congratulations on finding a way to make your vote matter less.

My vote, btw, would probably be unchanged: Gore/Bush.

This is hard to answer with the choices listed.  I'd have voted, had I voted, in 2000 for Bush, because I wanted civilizational war, and Bush seemed likelier to deliver that.  However, once that was accomplished, I'd have voted for Kerry in 2004, which I did in fact do and would not change.  In retrospect, Bush was damaging enough that, despite the trade of blood for precious oil/freedom, that I would now cast a vote for Gore in 2000.

It helps that Al Gormless doesn't seem as much of a statue these days, and because he's pimped causes which I care about, e.g., the environment.  I also care a lot less about bombing Muslims than I did in 2000.  Is this because we've already bombed them quite a bit, and now I'm tired of it, and ready to bomb someone else?  The end of a relationship is always hard, I guess.

[Admiral Yi]

Did Kerry say he was going to withdraw during the election?

IIRC correctly he said something about drawing down US troops and replacing them with suddenly enthusiastic Europeans. 

I don't know this for a fact, but I'm willing to bet one foot rub that he voted for the supplemental appropriation for Iraq that included a deadline for withdrawal before the surge began.  The same one Obama voted for.

[Valmy]

Still Bush over Al Bore and Longface and his eggplant wife.

You, sir, are...well you know.

[Rasputin]

i am prepared to vote for anybody named after a female body part

when the democrats get around to running Senator Gash, Governor Split-tail, or Represenative Melons for president they will have my vote; until then I'm sticking with the bush

[dps]

Voted for Bush in 2004 and certainly would do that if I had it to do over again.

Voted for a 3rd party candidate in 2000.  Not sure if I would still do that, but probably.