I agree that none of these guys would make strong candidates for the number one spot, but they ALL are probably more accomplished than Dan Quayle (with a couple of exceptions). Politics, indeed, makes strange bedfellows. I don't think Newt wants to bother. He's making too much money on the outside looking in...and throwing an occasional bomb over the wall.
" but they ALL are probably more accomplished than Dan Quayle (with a couple of exceptions)."
(FROM WIKI)
In 1976, Quayle was elected to the U.S. Congress from Indiana's Fourth Congressional District, defeating an eight-term incumbent Democrat. He won reelection in 1978 by the greatest percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast Indiana district. In 1980, at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the U.S. Senate from the State of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh. Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in 1986 with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race.
During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Quayle did legislative work in the areas of defense, arms control, labor, and human resources. He served on the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Labor and Human Resources Committee.
I've gotta agree. He's making a ton of money on books and speeches, and he's working behind the scenes coaching the GOP on finding their collective backbone. I think I heard it on Hannity yesterday that he was the one who got them to go after Pelosi One. Plus, he's got way too much personal baggage, and the DBM and Clintons very effectively villainized him in the 90's.