Before Sarah Palin, the GOP had Dan Quayle

LAT ^ | September 5, 2008 | Cathleen Decker

[paudio]

If anyone knows what it is like to be Sarah Palin right now, it is James Danforth Quayle.

"It sure sounded familiar," Dan Quayle chuckled, his voice coming over the telephone line from Phoenix, 20 years and a lifetime away from the explosion of shock and negative news stories that greeted his ascension to the vice presidential nomination, as it has hers.

[jveritas]

My FRiends we are blessed with a very stupid and delusional opponent, liberals and their media

[goldfinch]

The biggest similarity between Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin is the way the MSM has worked overtime to destroy them.

[Norman Bates]

QUAYLE, DAN THE HON.
PARADISE VALLEY , AZ 85253

John McCain (R)
President
MCCAIN VICTORY 2008 - $20,000
primary 05/31/08

[Tublecane]

“he was a grizzled veteran compared with Palin”

How many times does the MSM have to be reminded that the presidency and vice-presidency are executive, not legislative, positions. What is with all these senators who think that living in Washington makes them qualified?

[antceecee]

It’s a culture WAR and they are slash and burn when it comes to good conservatives.

[river rat]

The Left is worried...
The Obama worshipers are in panic...
Obama is on track to become the Mondale of the 21st Century...

Currently the Left is whistling past the cemetery, averting their eyes from the horror whose name is “Sarah Palin”...

Biden should be put on suicide watch - because for the first time in his 30+ years of being referred to as the “Honorable” dumb ass from Delaware, and his decades of insulting witnesses, lying to the media and the people and NEVER ONCE CONTRIBUTING AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT OR ACCOMPLISHMENT.....he will come up against a lady who will eviscerate the blowhard like a butchered rabbit...

[curth]

Let ol Cat know how we feel.

cathleen.decker@latimes.com

[Norman Bates]

Did anyone see the sign at the McCain-Palin rally today in Wisconsin?

"Read my lip-stick!"

[allmendream]

The VP has nothing better TO do than to criticize ‘Murphy Brown’; and unwed motherhood and the meme that fathers were entirely unneeded WAS being promoted in the media. Still it was an ill chosen fight for a man who was ill suited to three of the five responsibilities of the VP.

1) regional or idealogical or photogenic or life-story appeal that compliments the POTUS candidates electability.
2) champion a pet cause or take on an organizational role.
3) serve as a ‘pit bull’ or ideological champion or spokesman of the party.
4) Fill in as a successor to the President, not just in case of death, but as the presumed standard bearer or at least the one to beat in the next election.
5) Constitutional role: Vote in the Senate in case of a tie, serve as successor to the President in case of death, impairment or removal from office.

Gov. Sarah Palin is 5 STAR! She increased electability. She WILL be a force to reckon with, and has already championed the cause of parents of children with special needs. She served up the meat hot and tasty at the convention and her ideology is right up my alley. She is ready to serve day one and will be a powerful candidate in four or eight years. And I trust her vote in case of a tie more than any serving Senator.

Cheney was a GREAT VP and he was only four out of five. He was not a standard bearer for the next election. He was taken on in a “mentor” role, not a successor.

[mkjessup]

If Daddy Bush hadn't screwed the pooch in '92, failing to nail Bill Clinton when he had the chance, the odds are better than even that Dan Quayle would not only have been elected President in '96 following the second term of GHWB, but re-elected in 2000, and would have been our Commander-in-Chief on 9/11.

And I daresay he would have done a fine job. He is a good man, a decent man, a Christian man, and what was done to him by the lamestream media was and remains disgusting, and that's because the media has the market cornered on 'disgusting'.

[CitizenUSA]

paudio: “So this is the new line of attack from the MSM: make Sarah looks like Dan!”

As any conservative knows, this would be a favorable comparison. Dan Quayle is a decent, conservative guy. I wouldn’t have a problem voting for him today, but the MSM character assassination was quite effective. He’s forever ruined politically. Was “potatoe” really that bad of a gaff?

[NavyCanDo]

The odd coincidence here is now we have a VP that hunts quail. And caribou, and elk, bear, deer, and maybe a cougar or two.

[brytlea]

And unfortunately many Republicans seem to have bought into the myth that he was an idiot.
susie

[brytlea]

In fact, if I recall correctly, the press eventually admitted that Dan Quayle was right. You're right, his personality didn't allow him to overcome the vicious attacks, but it would have been difficult at best. Sarah is a much different sort, altho I would say what the press has done made me immediately think of Dan Quayle. It's a shame so many today on both sides, bought into the MSM’s caricature of him.
susie

[fhayek]

You are so right. Republicans are so quick to buy into the media narrative. Rush was talking about praise for Bobby Jindal at the Republican convention for his handling of Gustav. It gives credence to the narrative that Katrina was Bush's fault. I treat the MSM as suspects and won't buy into their template.

[Navy Patriot]

Dan is a nice guy, but terrible at being a cunning warrior.

He shouldn't give the time of day to a LA Slimes staff liar.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

In the liberals dream she is Dan Quayle. Before last friday I had only heard of Palin. When her nomination was announced I thought of the Qualyle analogy. Then I heard her speech last friday. And all I could say was mega super duper wow. Sarah Palin is no Dan Quayle. But let the libs go ahead. They are making head to toe fools of themselves.

[curth]

Exactly. I like Quayle, but maybe he is as dumb as they lead you think. He should have seen right through this interview and not given this hag the time of day.

[Tublecane]

I too, think Cheney was a great VP (perhaps the greatest), and not in the daft way the media presented him (that is, smirking Master of the Shadow World). Unfortunately, although he was probably more qualified for the office than Bush, he had the type of face that better fits a villain on 24 than a leader of the free world. I remember watching his debate with Lieberman and wondering why, oh why, can’t he be the top of the ticket?

[Tublecane]

“Sarah Palin is no Dan Quayle”

Let us be clear, Palin is better than Quayle, but it hardly matters for her current purposes. Bush/Quayle WON, and that is the only true test of a vice-presidential candidate.