Glenn Beck: If Gore had won...

New York magazine finally tells the story of Al Gore's (imaginary) two-term presidency. Here's Glenn Beck's take on President Gore's gaffe-filled second term

What if Al Gore, show here with V.P. nominee Joseph Lieberman in 2000, had become a two-term president?
(Image credit: Corbis)

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court's momentous Bush v. Gore ruling which handed the presidency to George W. Bush, New York asked "five (sometime) novelists" to imagine a "parallel life" in which Albert Gore, Jr. occupied the Oval Office instead. The editors asked Fox News' Glenn Beck (author of the thriller, The Overton Window) to cover the period 2004-2005, just after the hypothetical President Gore's reelection against the "dream team for red-meat Republicans": Sen. Larry Craig (ID) and Rep. Mark Foley (FL). Here are some of Beck's could-have-beens:

1. President Gore has cut a deal to avoid a massage scandal

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