Such a memorable zinger. How many are old enough to remember the launcher of the zinger . . . wait, it's coming back to me. Lloyd Benson? An old fool with a canned zinger, like the grandfather who tells you the same joke every time you visit him. At some point in the debate, Benson blurts out a mention of Jack Kennedy, unconnected to anything else, as in:
"You know, I've heard people say you're a kind of like the young Jack Kennedy . . . " etc., etc. Curiously, the Lamestreamers at the time quoted it immediately as a piece of devastating repartee. With my eyes opened by the Journo-List revelations and related conspiracies to bore us, I'd say it's almost as if the state-run media had been leaked the quote in advance and were waiting to use it in their sneering stories of the debate—which Quayle clearly won. And Dukakis-Benson took, as I recall, 5 states out of 50.
That should be Bentsen, not Benson.