By 2004 implies they could have been but then left office, right? It's hard to imagine my mom having the stomach for politics of any kind.

But, both my stepdad and my biological dad need PODs that almost certainly mean they don't meet my mom. Or...do they?
POD: My stepdad's parents die in an accident in 1945, leaving him and his siblings orphans. Instead of being in a family where they are told they can't do stuff and aren't encouraged and supported no matter what they want to do, they are adopted by the family of one of my mom's best friends. Since my stepdad is only 7, much of his personality is there, yet he's also got a family now that will encourge him to follow his dreams.
he joins the air foce instead of the Navy, and becomes a well-known fighter pilot, but chooses not to stay, partly because my mom's friend has become pregnant out of wedlock, so he comes back home to help support her in the middle '60s instead of re-enlisting. He starts getting involved in local politics while my mom is married, has me, and divorces. (Yeah, a POD ahe marries her is almost ASBish, sadly, and before means he likely doens't meet her.)
(The one I call my) dad's life experiences have helped him become a good moderate Republican; moderate to liberal on some social issues, but geneally conservative. He's in the state Senate by the 1970s. My mom's friend suggests my moma nd he get together once while he's campaigning at our county fair, a couple years after they met in OTL. My mom likes him, but also doesn't want to have me bothered by all the hoopla of politics. However, they keep in touch. My mom realizes that he's the one meant for her.
Instead of the really old gobernatorial candidate we had, my dad runs for governor, where Reagan still has enough coattails he's elected. With me in high school, and interested in politics at that time, I'd be spending more and more time takling with him, and my mom would realize that it's a great match. Jowever, with her concerns for me and my handicaps, and not wanting to leave her home area just yet, he is smart enough to realize he can't propose till I'm ready to go to college. they marry in the summer of 1988, less than 10 years after they married in OTL.
More importantly, my dad is chosen as a "favorite son" of the Midwest as V.P. over Dan Quayle, someone who is only a touch older but seems much more intelligent and able to handle the media and such. He teases me that, "I'm going to be Vice President. That means I'll have all the time in the world to spend with you and Mom."
It becomes one of those hilarious, well-known political quotes, especially when further butterflies lead to President Bush dying in 1991. My dad is re-elected in 1992, as he adopts some of Perot's policies of eliminating waste and is willing to oppose NAFTA. (My parents were both Perot supporters for a while in '92.) With Perot "bought off," he becomes an somewhat 4easy win. While he never wanted the office in OTL, he remarks that, "As long as God has put me here, I owe it to the people to do what's right."
He goes down as an averge to slightly above-average President, leaves office in 1997, as it's obvious he'll have some problems in '96, with the Republicans in power 16 years and him wanting to get back to private life. Also, he's made some enemies, as some in the Republican party don't like how he's cut spending and also done things in a more "common sense way" and not done things politically the way they'd like.
As he expects, a Democrat is elected in '96; Sam Nunn, partly for his expertise on foreign policy, which my dad didn't hve any of, as he chose to focus solely on domestic issues and ignore foreign affairs.