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Dan Quayle -- Anybody Notice That He's Raising His Profile Lately?
6-10-04

Posted on 06/10/2004 7:20:54 PM PDT by jmstein7

Anybody notice that Dan Quayle has started to raise his public profile?

Do you think he's looking at '08? He does have a Bush connection, after all.

Further, he LOOKS more statesman like these days.


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1 posted on 06/10/2004 7:21:00 PM PDT by jmstein7
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To: jmstein7

As much as this Huntingtonian would like to see it,W took his turn.


2 posted on 06/10/2004 7:22:33 PM PDT by John W
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I don't think so. I seriously think the "potatoe" thing would get him again. It's sad because he's such a smart and decent sort of guy, but I think it's true.


3 posted on 06/10/2004 7:22:51 PM PDT by MarcoPolo
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To: jmstein7

He's damaged goods, not a prayer. A GOP Mondale.


4 posted on 06/10/2004 7:24:58 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Yitgadal v'yitgadash Shmei Raba)
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To: MarcoPolo

Dan Quayle could find the cure for cancer and the press would report:

"RETARD CURES DISEASE BY ACCIDENT"


5 posted on 06/10/2004 7:25:19 PM PDT by Bluntpoint
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To: Bluntpoint

I have been hearing he might run for Governor of Arizona in 2006. We shall see...


6 posted on 06/10/2004 7:26:33 PM PDT by presidentbowen (God Bless Ronald Reagan)
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To: jmstein7
Come to think of it, I have seen more of him lately. If Bush wins re-election, the one thing he has failed to do is square up a successor.

Perhaps Quayle has his eye on the prize. Though Giuliani would be my first guess.

7 posted on 06/10/2004 7:27:09 PM PDT by GVnana
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Oh, good Lord. Quayle is done. He's not an elder statesman and will be another also-ran in 2008 if he runs again. The 2008 GOP nominee will be from this political generation (in office post-1998), not the previous one.


8 posted on 06/10/2004 7:30:28 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Bluntpoint
Hahaha!

That's so funny. Sadly though, it's true.

9 posted on 06/10/2004 7:30:56 PM PDT by MarcoPolo
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To: jmstein7

You know, choosing him for VP was the worst thing that could have happened to him in retrospect. Had he served a couple more terms in the senate and matured I think he would make an outstanding candidate. I have alot of respect for him and wouldn't hesitate to vote for him should he run.


10 posted on 06/10/2004 7:31:05 PM PDT by Andy'smom
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When did he move from Indiana?

Please tell me he knows how to spell "Indiana" and that there is no Phoenix Indiana?


11 posted on 06/10/2004 7:31:30 PM PDT by Bluntpoint
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To: thoughtomator
I agree with you. If you think failed presidential candidates disappear quickly from the scene, just look around and think of the last time you've heard these names (losing VP candidates) . . .

1. Geraldine Ferraro
2. Lloyd Bentsen (always a good subject of one of those "Is He Dead or Alive?" contests)
3. Dan Quayle
4. Jack Kemp

Joe Lieberman's only redemption was that he represented a state (Connecticut) where it was legal to run for the U.S. Senate at the same time he was Gore's running mate. If he didn't have his Senate job to fall back on, he would have vanished into thin air.

12 posted on 06/10/2004 7:32:37 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: jmstein7

Yeah, he is done. Will never do anything in politics again - and he is probably making 10 times as much $$ and having a lot more fun than if he had stayed in politics.

He got a bum rap - but what can you do?


13 posted on 06/10/2004 7:34:03 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
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To: jmstein7
Anybody notice that Dan Quayle has started to raise his public profile?

Can't say I've noticed any unusual Quayle activity lately ... a lot of cicadas, a few rabbits ... no Quayle.

14 posted on 06/10/2004 7:34:41 PM PDT by BluH2o
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"RETARD CURES DISEASE BY ACCIDENT"

That's true, and it's a damn shame. Hadn't noticed he was raising his profile any. Saw him on the tube talking about Reagan this week. It was good to see him. I'd vote for him but it wouldn't help much.

15 posted on 06/10/2004 7:36:15 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (God Bless Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Types_with_Fist

We do have to be practical, I think - having a candidate that is, from the start, so easily ridiculed, is not a position from which I think a winning national candidacy can be built.


16 posted on 06/10/2004 7:38:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Yitgadal v'yitgadash Shmei Raba)
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To: jmstein7

I seriously think the potatoe thing will be a distance memory and people won't put much weight in it. I don't know if Quayle will make a serious run at President, but he would, I would support him 100%.


17 posted on 06/10/2004 7:39:03 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Bluntpoint
I'm afraid Dan Quayle can't outflank the media. Anything Dan does get picked apart enmasse by the press or they set him up as a joke. If he layed down great statement some cause they would respond with, "He can't spell 'potato'."
18 posted on 06/10/2004 7:42:03 PM PDT by oyez (¡Desea vivo el revolutuin de Reagan!)
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To: oyez

Not being President is not the end of the world.

Not being President has not had a negative affect in my life.


19 posted on 06/10/2004 7:44:34 PM PDT by Bluntpoint
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To: jmstein7
Since I haven't noticed, I don't think he is making much of a splash. I try to follow this stuff - I haven't seen him even on the far far horizon.

I agree with the "damaged goods" comment. Dan Quayle, while a fine patriot and smarter than he is given credit for, would have a tougher time making a political comeback than Newt Gingrich - and that ranks up there with "damned impossible"!!

20 posted on 06/10/2004 7:45:43 PM PDT by HardStarboard ( Wesley...gone. Hillary......not gone enough!)
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