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.
Hasn't got a chance.
First I heard of that, we could sure use him but I doubt that it would ever happen.
I'd rather have him replace John McCain in the Senate.
Bump
Amen. He's a really smart guy, he's written some brilliant essays. But it's as though he got pushed into the limelight before he had any political savvy.
He would be toast.
But the thing that bugged me the most about him was he blinked too much!! He would stand behind Bush at the State of the Union Addresses frickin blinkin every two seconds. It drove me nuts. I found myself not pay attention to what Bush was saying and screaming to the TV "fix your contacts". Yes, I know that this is petty but, hey, I'm a soccer mom. What would you expect?
I'd campaign for him, I'd vote for him but in today's world where charisma unfortunately trumps brains, Quayle would never make it.
Any comments..... I know you were a Quayle backer in 2000 when he couldn't get much of a following in the Republican Primaries. I really don't see why it would be different in 2008 for him.....
The biggest failure as a vice presidential candidate ran on a ticket which couldn't manage to get 35% of the popular vote and even 25% of the electoral vote-- all but one of which were former Confederate States in an era when the south automatically supported this party. The year was 1920, who was the candidate? (I'll guarantee you've heard of him).
Dan Quayle raising his profile is not necessarily a good thing. He is beyond damaged, at least nationally.
Yeah, and some of Dean's supporters are saying the same thing about the Dean scream.
A hundred years from now, if there is some reference to Dan Quayle in a history book, it will have a comment about the potatoe thing.
Just kidding . . . it was FDR, wasn't it?
That kind of thing would never happen in this age of television and an increasingly ignorant population, when candidates are manufactured to maximize their appeal to voters.
Dan Quayle has his day in the Sun.
Dan Quayle is a fine human being and his best use of his time would be to push the conservative agenda and run for governorship of his home state
Cox-Roosevelt was the Democrat ticket in 1920. The first guy got slaughtered by Warren G. "Return to Normalcy" Harding. The second guy may have become something a few years later I hear. :-)
Kidding. Sort of.
It's perfectly fitting that Quayle is raising his profile since AlGore is certainly trashing his own.
In every election since 1944, the Republicans have run either a Dewey, Nixon, Bush or Dole on the presidential ticket. There was one exception-- 1964-- and we know how that turned out.
I'd like to see him slug about DC today, now that he's more - august.
You are P. Buchanan, aren't you. Admit it.
You are probably right BUT Quayle is a good man and deerves a break.
FDR.
Undoubtedly. I have no problem with Quayle as a person or as a public figure. As a candidate, I think we need to be realistic - if the GOP suggests Quayle as a candidate, anyone old enough to vote in 1988 who isn't well-informed about the real Quayle (and how are they to have been? it's a never-reported story) is going to bust a gut laughing. Undeserved, but let's not fool ourselves - as a national candidate he's a non-starter.
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