The reason the leftists hated Quayle with such a purple passion was that he defeated Birch Bayh in 1980.
Quayle was a good guy. Really underrated.
Interesting - I didn’t know that.
By extension libs hated Nixon because he went after the commies in the 50’s.
And John Edwards got a Senate seat beause the clinton’s sponsored him to go after Lauch Faircloth (NC) who had opposed the clintons on Whitewater.