[DBWI] No Ronald Reagan-Eugenia Charles ticket in 1980

I know that making the UK cede the Lesser Antilles as the price for US aid against Hitler has been criticized as unduly harsh, but I don't want to get into that here. What I want to know is who Ronald Reagan would have chosen as his running mate in 1980 if Eugenia Charles hadn't been available?

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(And please, no rehashing of the "birther" quibbling about whether she was a natural born citizen, either. "Again, the Federal Constitution provides that no person, except a natural-born citizen or a. citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, should be eligible to the office of president. Texas was admitted into the Union in 1845. Can it be claimed that a person born in the republic of Texas prior to its admission into the Union is ineligible to the presidency of the United States for that reason? We do not believe such a construction can be reasonably contended for." https://books.google.com/books?id=M64wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA700)
 
Eric Gairy? As a governor, he was fairly low-profile to mainland voters, but his tough crackdown on Maurice Bishop's branch of Students For A Democratic Society would fit in well with Reagan's law-and-order agenda. Plus, his association with beauty pageants would play into the whole Americana nostalgia thing that the GOP was going for.
 
Reagan needed a fairly centrist running mate, which Charles was (even if she was very conservative by Dominica’s standards). Since I’m assuming we are considering mainlander VP options, perhaps Howard Baker or Edward Brooke would work?
 
I heard a story that Reagan wanted somebody from the Ford administration (Ford was considered in a co-presidency deal, Bush and Rumsfeld also on the list) but he opted against.

Rumsfeld was the one Reagan had the most interest in, and supposedly he decided on Rumsfeld, but he didn't have Rumsfeld's number the night before the convention whereas he did have Charles's so Charles got the nod.
 
I think picking Bush would’ve been a good choice. I believe the economic troubles of Reagan’s administration would’ve still happened, but without a powerful Bush out in the cold, perhaps Bill Cohen’s primary challenge wouldn’t have happened.

From there, it’s likely Reagan would’ve had a second term without the ridiculous National Unity Party scheme.
 
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