WI:George W. Bush marries Patti Reagan

I heard that Patti Reagan is similar to both Hilary Clinton and his OTL wife Laura, but both of their fathers are presidents, is it possible for them to get married? Would he still be a president?
 
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Stuff like this would probably come back to haunt the Bush-Reagans...

Davis posed nude in Playboy in the July 1994 issue.[5][6] She also starred in a Playboy Celebrity Centerfold video, which showed her in an outdoor lesbian settings, along with a solo masturbation passage.[7] Years later, at the age of fifty-eight in 2011, she posed nude again, this time in a less explicit manner, for More.[

A lightning rod the Religious Right, not to mention definite fodder for "bush" jokes among the hipster set.

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shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Bush never meets Laura. Continues as an alcoholic. Meets Patti Reagan in 1984 whilst visiting the White House. Both find mutual comfort in one another; Bush, a self destructive alcoholic how hasn't found his way in life and feels that his father is disappointing by him, Patti Reagan, victim of abuse and parental neglect and pill popper. They develop a deep bond, and eventfully fall in love. With someone to depend on, Bush and Patti give up the bottle and pills and seek to make a better life. Bush gains ownership of a the Texas Rangers and remains an Episcopalian, Patti becomes a political author.
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Christ, that sounds like a romantic drama that Aaron Sorkin would write.
 
Bush never meets Laura. Continues as an alcoholic. Meets Patti Reagan in 1984 whilst visiting the White House. Both find mutual comfort in one another; Bush, a self destructive alcoholic how hasn't found his way in life and feels that his father is disappointing by him, Patti Reagan, victim of abuse and parental neglect and pill popper. They develop a deep bond, and eventfully fall in love. With someone to depend on, Bush and Patti give up the bottle and pills and seek to make a better life. Bush gains ownership of a the Texas Rangers and remains an Episcopalian, Patti becomes a political author.
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Christ, that sounds like a romantic drama that Aaron Sorkin would write.

I want this TL!:D
 

TinyTartar

Banned
Anything that happens before Bush's Born Again experience and renouncement of alcohol is something that will not have a huge effect on OTL unless Patti is not nearly as supportive as Laura was and Bush therefore wastes away his life as a drunk without purpose or mission.
 
The merging of two political families? It's happened before: Eisenhower's grandson married Nixon's daughter, and the two had children that are directly descended from two presidents.
 
The merging of two political families? It's happened before: Eisenhower's grandson married Nixon's daughter, and the two had children that are directly descended from two presidents.
And I know that George W. Bush did go on a date with Nixon's older daughter as well. It didn't go very well.
 
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Possible, but highly unlikely. George W. married Laura in 1977. Wouldn't have met Patti until 1980. She is a lib. He's a conservative. She is a very gifted writer but not one to be a wife of a businessman turned politician.
 
Bush never meets Laura. Continues as an alcoholic. Meets Patti Reagan in 1984 whilst visiting the White House. Both find mutual comfort in one another; Bush, a self destructive alcoholic how hasn't found his way in life and feels that his father is disappointing by him, Patti Reagan, victim of abuse and parental neglect and pill popper. They develop a deep bond, and eventfully fall in love. With someone to depend on, Bush and Patti give up the bottle and pills and seek to make a better life. Bush gains ownership of a the Texas Rangers and remains an Episcopalian, Patti becomes a political author.
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Christ, that sounds like a romantic drama that Aaron Sorkin would write.

Anything that happens before Bush's Born Again experience and renouncement of alcohol is something that will not have a huge effect on OTL unless Patti is not nearly as supportive as Laura was and Bush therefore wastes away his life as a drunk without purpose or mission.

The merging of two political families? It's happened before: Eisenhower's grandson married Nixon's daughter, and the two had children that are directly descended from two presidents.

Possible, but highly unlikely. George W. married Laura in 1977. Wouldn't have met Patti until 1980. She is a lib. He's a conservative. She is a very gifted writer but not one to be a wife of a businessman turned politician.

Patti is similar in some ways to Laura Bush and Hilary Clinton, both of the three are of democrat leanings, Patti would be similar to Laura but the difference I think is that Patti would be a better mother and more understanding that is if both George and Patti were able to recover from their pasts.

And Patti won't pose in Playboy.
 
I'm not sure how Patti would be a better mother. She had her tubes tied at a very young age. She never ever wanted to have children. Read from her autobiography.
 

Yuelang

Banned
Assuming Bush still go to Politics and elected as president... and Patti still posed nude...

Osama Bin Laden and co spend their time laughing their ass off over how American decadence end up in their first lady pose Nude, they then decides that the best terrorism is making fake sex videos of their presidents and cabinets.

No 9/11, just Bush having a lot of fake scandal tape originates from somewhere in Afghanistan.

Bush and Patti inadvertently saved the world :D
 
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