Pick any two people from history from anywhere in the world. If you were able to reincarnate them and teach them everything about all the advacements of soceity and acclimate them to life and politics of the present, could they win the persidential election of the United States if the ran? For example:
Wintons Churchill & Mahatma Ghandi
vs
Ghengis Khan & Thomas Jefferson
What do you think would be an interesting fantasy political election?
What do you think would be an unbeatable combination?
Edit: Obviously, ignore the natural born citizen rule
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Paul Bunyan & Anyone.
Superman & Supergirl.
Edit: oh, do they have to be real?
Posted by Gecko (Member # 8160) on :
haha, yes, real people
Posted by Rotar Mode (Member # 9898) on :
Jesus Christ and Sidhartha Gautama (peace be upon them)
vs.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche.
I wonder who would win.
Posted by Gecko (Member # 8160) on :
Rotar, regardless of who would win, the country would have its first Jewish president.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Are we assuming that they're independently wealthy and well-connected to special interest groups? Because I think that matters a lot more than their actual abilities and personalities.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Jefferson wouldn't stay on the bill with Genghis Khan anyway. Nor would Ghandi stay on a ticket with Churchill. Now it's 4-way.
Genghis Khan orders people to kill populations of entire cities, and nobody will listen, so he tries to show how it's done. He's in jail awaiting charges of terrorism, rape, and arson. This cuts into his campaign appearances and he gets 0.5% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. That 0.5% wants watching.
Ghandi points out that Jefferson had slaves, and Jefferson says, at least I wasn't a Grand Wizard of the KKK like Senator Byrd, and -- who wrote the Constitution? He's wiped out in the primary.
Ghandi accuses Churchill of being an imperialist (true enough), but Churchill's campaign circulates that picture of Ghandi with that cute little handpowered loom, with the caption GHANDI'S PLAN FOR AMERICAN JOBS. Super Tuesday puts Ghandi's hopes to rest.
Churchill gets an even bigger landslide than Reagan in '84. The New York Times gets 8 years to complain that his rhetoric is too divisive and he really should stop talking so rough about the Nazis. Every time he gives a speech Katie Couric asks if there's room for nuance in American politics, and Churchill says, "Hell, no." Big winner: political cartoonists who like to draw bulldogs.