What if the candidates were on the SDMB?

I can see it now:

What do you think? Would they end up being accussed of being trolls, would they stubbornly stick to their guns when we, The Teeming Millions, shine the Light of Anti-Ignorance (granted to us by Saint Cecil Himself) on them? Would they turn out to be (ironically) Liberatarian or Polycarp or andros (to name but a few), or would they turn out to be Wildest Bill or Rook or Jack Dean Tyler (to name but a few)?

Esprix

Dubya would spend most of his time in MPSIMS and IMHO until he followed a link over to the Pizza Parlor, where he’d endlessly discuss Creationism with like-minded individuals. AlGore would create 600 post threads about every issue (except SOCAS and the death penalty), wherein David B would consistently berate him for making up statistics and failure to provide cites.

Both would post Pit threads accusing the other one of gratuitous flaming.

Karl Rove would write Dubya’s posts after his bedtime (9PM) or when he is relaxing with his Playstation 2 (2-5 PM). Karl, being the bastard that he is, would probably hide his IP and cover the MB with sock puppets.

Al Gore would write every post himself. And they would all be fundamentally unreadable. It wouldn’t take long before people began to call him out on linguistic contortions, and he would soon end up in the Pit. He would spend his days in vain trying to argue with John Corrado, and wouldn’t stand a chance of winning.

MR

Cute.

Couple of observations: Someone sardonically commented about one of Wildest Bill’s posts where he’d ignored a request for a cite that he couldn’t take the time to do that, with all the campaigning he has to do. And we did once have a poster named Al G. from Tennessee.

Perhaps it really is Libertarian. After all, around the time the campaigns really picked up he disappeared from the boards. (Anyone know what’s become of him?)

Half the people on sdmb would mindlessly flame Bush constantly. (oh wait they do that already:))

Gore would change his positions and “reinvent” himself so many times that he would regularly get accused of being the return of Mark Serlin.

Bush would misspell everything, screw up the vB codes, and be written off as a fool.

Nader would attack “Gush” and “Bore,” and would object to MPSIMS as a waste of bandwidth.

Browne would advocate letting concrete come back, just because.

Buchanan wouldn’t understand why nobody wanted him to be an administrator; then he’d get pissed off, leave, and go try to take Fathom over.

GHWBush would come in, get into fights, then sit back, play golf and watch the bodies pile up.

Dubya’s Mom would come in and iron Dubya’s clothes for him and give algore a stern talking-to about playing nice with her son.

TipperG would sit and look pretty.

LMAO-great idea, Esprix!

I think though we might scare Bush with thoughts of squicking…

Nonsense. Dubya would merely deny having squicked since he found Jesus and stopped drinking, and refuse to answer any questions about squicking prior to that time.

Who’s to say they aren’t posting now?

Maybe AlGore would start claiming that he IS Cecil.

All I can say is that Bush would have gotten a warning for calling that NY Times reporter an asshole.

Yeah…big time.

Al Gore would get flamed for using bold and all caps way too much (as in “I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU!”) while Dubya would avoid any direct confrontations, advocating “tolerance” while trying to “unify” both sides of GD threads with lots of smiley-faces and winking emoticons.

They’d both change their sig lines twice a week, to align with the current media blitzes.

Frankly, I’d love to see what Al and Dubya would say in threads such as “Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer.” Many Doper votes could well be won in there.

I can assure you it isn’t. Lib’s new position has consumed him for the time being. He’ll be back as soon as it’s possible to give the time that would be demanded of him.

Bush and Gore participating in real debates with real people? :smiley:

I wonder what their Pit threads would be like:

Dubya: Al Gore is a Lying Asshole

AlGore: Dubya is a Greedy Rich Bastard Who Wants To Enslave You…
You know…I wonder what would happen if Cheney and Lieberman came on the SDMB.