I think a lot of people do not understand why the MF "support" worked. It was because she outranged Zyra's poke and she could abuse her plants to bounce her Q. Also, she was only used with an ADC that can lockdown a target (ashe in this case), in order to combo someone to death at level 6.
Ashe is not a support. A support is someone who helps a champion by giving them heals, shields, boosts to their damage, or someone who can keep said champion safe by tanking hits or by peeling/applying crown control.
Playing a duo bot lane with the ADC and Ashe as the other one can sure be viable. Ashe is ranged, has slows on her autos, has poke with her W, vision with E and a good CC on her ult. It can work in lane, but I can't see how it can be reliable throughout all stages of the game. Apart from her ult and her slows, she doesn't have anything else to offer, except from insane damage based on her kit. If you go "support Ashe", then it means you aren't getting a lot of gold, which then mean you ain't getting a lot of items to do that damage, which is the champion's primary job.
Sure, you might win some games here and there, especially in bronze, where it doesn't really matter what you pick, but people will abuse you in higher elo.
If Ashe support was working, then Lee Sin can also work. GP can also work. Any champion can work as a support by that logic. It's just that they are sub optimal to the original supports, because the supports do the job better, and those champions are intended to do something else other than just babysitting an ADC.