Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 am by Ryan ShattuckLet’s face it. If you’re running for president, you’re sometimes going to receive a compliment that just make you cringe.
CNN reports a conference call former Vice President Dan Quayle had with reporters on Tuesday, in which he stated:
“I have a lot of grudging respect for what he [Barack Obama] did because he beat the Clintons, something we couldn’t do in 1992. The Clintons were very convincing in the campaign they ran. So I thought she would be the candidate.”
In other words, Dan Quayle - who was apparently having a conference call with reporters to promote his participation in a golf tournament later this month - was indirectly complimenting Barack Obama for beating Hillary Clinton.
To fully grasp how unnecessary and awkward this situation truly is, consider the following absolutely made-up scenario:
- You’re running for student body president.
- You’ve heard a rumor that a mentally challenged student was student body vice president about 16 years ago.
- This student body vice president became well known for losing the Spelling Bee after misspelling “potato.”
- Cause seriously, who doesn’t know how to spell “potato?”
- The student body vice president - who’s already graduated and moved on with his life and currently reminds everyone that there’s nothing wrong with working at Burger King in a managerial position - decides to return to your school and be interviewed by the school paper on the subject of golf.
- Because everyone cares what he thinks about golf.
- He then ends up giving his opinion on your candidacy for student body president.
- …despite the fact that no one gives a damn about his opinion
- …and despite the fact that the interview is supposed to be about golf
- …and didn’t he leave this school over 16 years ago
- …wait, isn’t he the guy who lost the Spelling Bee for misspelling “potato”
- …yes, he is… wait, that guy’s still alive?
- … apparently so. It’s kind of like watching a socially awkward, intellectually lightweight car accident, except no one cares what the car accident has to say, especially when it comes to golf or politics.
On an unrelated note, has John McCain considered a former senator named Dan Quayle for vice-president? I hear he has time to kill and opinions to share.
Just don’t make him spell any of them.
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I won’t bother to talk about Quayle, but check this out:
Mexicans are now performing home invasions and homicides in Phoenix.
http://kfyi.com/pages/local_news.html?feed=118695&article=3875223
I doubt these are your stereotypical Mexicans looking for work, but (per internal Phoenix police documentation) MEXICAN MILITARY SOLDIERS…IMO, hired by drug lords. These guys crossed the line, fired 50 to 100 rounds into a house with AR-15 assault rifles, barged in, and murdered an American family. One of the Mexican soldiers said that they were prepared to ambush Phoenix police, but ran out of ammo.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS THE GATEWAY CRIME TO HARDER CRIMES!
But because the Dems and Pubs want us focused on gas prices, they are trying to make their Mexican military status a secret.
Of course, I’m not saying that the Mexican government sent a three-man unit to attack the US, but this is a very important evidence that we need to drastically escalate our border defense.
I urge all of you to not shop at places where you suspect have illegal immigrants. It’s pretty easy…hispanic looking people who can barely speak English are 99% likely to be illegal.
I watched my lawn service like a hawk. Sure enough, a hispanic was hired…so I went out to talk to him…he couldn’t speak English. So I cancelled my service and I do my own damn lawn.
I love getting breakfest from McDonalds, but when the drive-through person became a hispanic that couldn’t speak English, I stopped going to that place.
And politicians go talk tough, but just let it happen…well, they and their supporters can kiss my @ss.
Vote with your dollar, buy a gun, pay off your debts…and stop voting for supposed lesser of two evils. There is no such thing.
Both Obama and McCain will just let these kinds of home invasions happen. Further, they will try to prevent us from defending ourselves.
That’s called softening a country from within. It is a major part of attacking a nation. Study Egypt, Rome, Russia, any major nation. They were weakened from within before dismantled.
And you damn well better believe it is happening here.
I think Dan Quayle commented using the name Lazlo to try and change the subject, but in so posting, only proved he is an intellectual lightweight.
About as lightweight as spelling Potato, Potatoe, or how about Reasonable as Reaonable? I’m just saying…
Ryan -
Does a Dan Quayle endorsement = kiss of death?
Well then, by all means, endorse away for Obama!
That would be some bellwether!
Another shallow, easy potshot at Quayle’s spelling gaffe (or gaff).
Sigh…
Which would you rather see -
a candidate mistakenly add an Old English “e” to a word in a Spelling Bee photo op,
or a candidate repeatedly lie about his close ties to kooks (Obama and the not-so-reverend Wright) and crooks (Obama and Rezko).
Or maybe Quayle’s “e” problem was so much worse than Hillary’s re-writing of history that led to her valiantly dodging sniper fire in Bosnia?
I’ll take the additional “e”, thank you kindly.
It is true that Bentsen’s speechwriter beat Quayle’s speechwriter in the debate.
Don’t know if that makes a guy stupid or not.
Truth be told, Dan Quayle was a better conservative than any of the nominees since Reagan. He didn’t have the political skills, but he had the conservative ideas.
Dan Quayle was right!
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/family/danquayl.htm
Agreed.
Gary and Shawn crack me up.
You two get all “holier than thou” when anyone takes a shot at a anyone close to the right. Yet you are conspicuously absent when someone takes a shot at the other side.
It reminds me a bit of Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show.
Huh? Have you not read anything I have posted? While true, I have not called anyone a “big fat idiot” lately, I do relish in taking the GOP to task. I have been as vitriolic as the next person. I am all for attacks, I just disagree in non-substantial drivel (like your last post) and question its value. I could care less that Shattuck picks on Quayle, I was agreeing with Gary that Quayle was a better conservative than most of the crap we have masquerading as GOP leadership. That’s not so much a defense of Quayle as an observation of the sad current state of affairs.
Besides, everyone knows that Statler and Waldorf were Democrats. I am a Libertarian.
I think Lazlo is Lyndon LaRouche.
Wouldn’t that make him LyLo?