XII. Stale Culture Wars of the Cynical 90's and 2000's Cycle (1993-2009)

XII. Stale Culture Wars of the Cynical 90's and 2000's Cycle

[4 Terms]
Major Parties: Democrats, Republicans
Major 3rd Parties: Independent, Reform Party
Presidents: (D) Bill Clinton (R) George W. Bush
Vice Presidents: (D) Al Gore (R) Richard Cheney

Dominant Issue: Culture Wars -- which were stale this time around.

People seemed to vote along Culture War Lines but nobody really cared. Also, the War of Terror began. But the country remained divided along Culture War Lines as people viewed the War on Terror through their Prism of the Culture Wars. This was also the Cynical Times of Ross Perot's movement to flip the system off, the Cynicism of Clinton from "I didn't Inhale" to his "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" to the Cynicism of 9/11 Conspiracies and Election Cynicism of the 2000 Election of the so-called Hanging

Chads.
Events: Somali Debacle that led to the Movie "Blackhawk Down", Hanging Chads of 2000 Election, Lewinsky Affair, Clinton Impeachment, 9/11, Internet and Social Media, War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan, U.S.S. Cole Attacked, Y2 Scare, "Don't ask - Don't tell,", White Water-gate Scandal, Hurricanes Katrina & Sandy

--Democrat Party Factions: Moderate Democrats, Liberal Democrats and Blue Dog Democrats who begin to dwindle away.

--Republican Party Factions: What emerged was the Republican triangle --on one corner the Moderate Republicans, another corner the Mainstream Conservative Republicans and the other corner the Christian Right. An outlier group of Libertarian Republicans stayed on the edge of the Party.

3rd Parties: Ross Perot as an Independent who received 19% then another bid by Perot as the Reform Party that received 8%. Perot's movement was about flipping the system off and reforming it--such as term limits for Congress.

End of Cycle: The Great Recession

1992:
Democrat Convention:  Back East in New York City, New York

Clinton - Bush - Perot

Democrat Ticket: Clinton/Gore
President: Governor Bill Clinton (Arkansas) Vice President: U.S. Senator Al Gore (Tennessee)
Republican Convention: Down South in Houston, Texas
Republican Ticket: Bush/Quayle
President: President George Bush (Texas) Vice President: Vice President Dan Quayle (Indiana)

Independent Ticket: Perot/Stockdale

President: Businessman Ross Perot (Texas) Vice President: Navy Admiral James Stockdale (New York)

1996:
Democrat Convention:  Across the Midwest in Chicago, Illinois
Democrat Ticket: Clinton/Gore
President: President Bill Clinton (Arkansas) Vice President: Vice

Dole

President Al Gore (Tennessee)
Republican Convention: Out West in San Diego, California
Republican Ticket: Dole/Kemp
President: U.S. Senator and Former Vice-Presidential Nominee Bob Dole (Kansas) Vice President: Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp (Maryland)
Reform Party Convention: Out West in Long Beach, California

Reform Party Ticket: Perot/Choate
President: Businessman Ross Perot (Texas) Vice President: Economist Pat Choate (Virginia)

2000:
Republican Convention: Back East in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gore

Republican Ticket: Bush/Cheyney
President: Governor George W. Bush (Texas) [son of Former President George Bush] Vice President: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney (Wyoming)
Democrat Convention: Out West in Los Angeles, California
Democrat Ticket: Gore/Lieberman
President: Vice President Al Gore (Tennessee) Vice President: Jewish U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (Connecticut)

2004:
Republican Convention: Back East in New York City, New York

Bush

Republican Ticket: Bush/Cheyney
President: President George W. Bush (Texas) Vice President: Vice President Richard Cheyney (Wyoming)
Democrat Convention: Back East in Boston, Massachusetts
Democrat Ticket: Kerry/Edwards
President: U.S. Senator John Kerry (Massachusetts) Vice President: U.S. Senator John Edwards (North Carolina)

Hotly Contested Election of Cycle:

1992:

In the above County Map (R) Bush is in Blue, (D) Clinton in Red and (I) Perot in Green.

The 1992 election was the first in over two decades that a 3rd

Party had won some counties. Ross Perot's main theme was that the system is broke and needs to be fixed. 

For a short time, Perot actually pulled into a slight lead then stunned his supporters by dropping out. Later he re-entered the race but never climbed back to the same level of support as some thought he might just drop out again.

Republicans accused Perot of being in the race to settle old political scores from back in Texas politics with Bush. When Perot exited the race for a while Democrats accused him of trying to help Bush.

-A Note of Interest--

Al Gore would disappear after his failed Presidential bid for the

White House. He retreated to Hawaii for some time and grew a beard before re-emerging as the self-proclaimed High Priest of the Green Religion and would become the main public instigator in Climate Hysteria making Millions in the process,