WHAT IF SPARTACUS HAD A PIPER CUB? MSNBC and Jeff Greenfield ponder what if Al Gore had won in 2000 — which since 2009 has been an annual story for bored journalists on both sides of the aisle. (Glenn Beck was commissioned by liberal New York magazine in 2010 to explore to topic for some reason.)

But then, considering that modern American progressivism is currently engaged in blocking new dams, new roadways, reliable electricity and bankrupting the welfare state, and with an assist from their cousins overseas destabilizing Europe, the left seems to be asking these days, at least unconsciously, what if FDR had lost in 1932?

Perhaps the best take though on the MSNBC segment comes from a Hot Air commenter: “So now they’re admitting [Gore] didn’t win?”

Hey, it takes time to get over the Day Your History Began.