Quayle was destroyed by what my good friend Lawrence Ward, the president of PoliticalMedia.com, has called “Caricature Assassination.” The leftwing media creates a caricature of the conservative enemy and then piles on the ridicule.
Quayle’s problem was that he was too much of a gentleman to come out swinging and take the bastards heads off. Hopefully, his son learned the lesson: Give no quarter; take no prisoners.
Yes and he DID travel for Bush making alliances. He was very good at it. The press down-played it. Always. Or twisted it.