DBWI: Phyllis Schlaflylooses 1970 Congressional Bid

As we all know Phyllis Schlafly was elected to congress in 1970 representing the State of Illinois, where she would serve until 1980 when she was selected by Ronald Reagan as his VP pick becoming the first woman to be nominated on a Presidential ticket. After serving two terms under Reagan she herself was elected the Nation's First Female President in 1988 and then reelected in 1992. It has been claimed that her time in the white house cemented suburban Middle Class women as a key Conservative Republican block. Could she have had such an impact if she had not been elected to congress in 1970?
 
Well she might have gone on a tear and defeated the 27th Amendment to the US Constitution: you know, the one that guarantees equal protection of rights, immunities and priveledges on the basis of sex. I hate to think of how much progress on the sex, sexual orientation and gender identity fronts would have been rendered impossible to achieve or rolled back, even.

But that's really ASB, I have to admit. Kind of like something Harold Turteltaub would have written for an ATL series of novels had he ran out of better ideas.
 
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