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Quayle glad Bush didn't tap Trump for VP
The Hill ^ | December 5. 2015

Posted on 12/05/2015 6:23:18 PM PST by SMGFan

Dan Quayle says he's glad President George H.W. Bush picked him to be his vice president instead of Donald Trump.

Quayle discussed how Trump let Bush's camp know that he was interested in becoming the vice president in the 1988 campaign, during an interview with host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on AM 970 in New York.

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To: napscoordinator

Oh by the way, I think that budget deal ( aka that broke “No new Taxes” ) was pushed by Darman and Sununu. They were the Establishment we are rebelling against now, we were to stoopid to know they were Shtuping us back in the day....


21 posted on 12/05/2015 6:41:54 PM PST by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: taildragger

Well that didn’t help either. Bush never should have given absolutes. That is the dumbest thing any President can do. You never know what the environment is going to be when you get into that seat. It is EASY to say whatever you want while campaigning, but when reality hits you over the head, you are screwed if you promised something that is impossible to happen.


22 posted on 12/05/2015 6:46:03 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: SMGFan
Quayle - just another GOP, Caspar Milquetoast loser in a long line of them. Might be a nice guy, but these guys don't know how to fight.
23 posted on 12/05/2015 6:47:42 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: exit82

;)


24 posted on 12/05/2015 6:53:21 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: KarlInOhio

George Washington himself spelled potato with an e at the end.

Shortly after the media contrived so-called controversy, Quayle said he spelled potato with an e at the end because the teacher spelled it that way in the class Quayle was visiting and he, Quayle, did not want to embarrass the teacher.

Meanwhile, Obama and Biden are a gaffe a minute.


25 posted on 12/05/2015 6:56:18 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Just say NO to muslim "immigrants")
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To: SMGFan

Bush would never pick a VP more successful or well liked than himself.

That is why Bush picked Quayle. Because Quayle is a moron.


26 posted on 12/05/2015 6:59:03 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: SMGFan

Quayle. A living footnote to history.


27 posted on 12/05/2015 7:03:03 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: taildragger

“Dan Quayle was Sarah Palin before she was Sarah. They had to destroy him and they did and we are a more Fubared up nation because of it. He was damn good talent and it was a Dang shame they took him out of the running for anything...”

Agree too. He was considered smart and competent (and very conservative) when he was in the Senate. He was simply unprepared for a media as nasty then as it is now.


28 posted on 12/05/2015 7:12:06 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: taildragger

“Oh by the way, I think that budget deal ( aka that broke “No new Taxes” ) was pushed by Darman and Sununu.”

It is said that Darman came running into to the Oval Office screaming: “We got them, we got the Democrats!”

He was SO HAPPY with the promised budget cuts and that he FINALLY put to bed the “gridlock” claim of the media that he didn’t even care about the tax increases, or more likely, was clueless regarding the political cost.

The ONE PERSON that could have saved Bush on that was Lee Atwater, but the Dems managed to take him out with brain cancer (not sure how they did that, but it worked - maybe got something hot placed in his home).


29 posted on 12/05/2015 7:18:40 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: SMGFan

Hmmm.... I thought Trump was a democrat? Trump identified as a Republican back in 1988. Another GOPe myth bites the dust.


30 posted on 12/05/2015 7:19:47 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: TruthWillWin
Same for Mr 57 states Obama.

And Mr. Corps Man.

31 posted on 12/05/2015 7:20:31 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: SMGFan

Potatoe


32 posted on 12/05/2015 7:23:12 PM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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To: napscoordinator

So much wrong in your statement.


33 posted on 12/05/2015 7:31:05 PM PST by Rik0Shay
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To: taildragger

Totally agree.


34 posted on 12/05/2015 7:33:00 PM PST by Rik0Shay
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To: SMGFan

Bill Clinton is also glad that Dan Quayle was chosen and not Trump.


35 posted on 12/05/2015 7:34:32 PM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: Rik0Shay

Not a word actually.


36 posted on 12/05/2015 7:35:43 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: SMGFan

Sometimes I am embarrassed to be a Republic when I see guys like this.


37 posted on 12/05/2015 7:39:17 PM PST by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: SMGFan

I have a good buddy who hired Quayle after the election. He ended up firing him for incompetence.


38 posted on 12/05/2015 8:13:54 PM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: SMGFan

This shows that Trump was a Republican back in 1988. This goes against what has been posted on this board by the hacks.


39 posted on 12/05/2015 8:25:39 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: SMGFan
No particular reason he was glad GWB did not pick Trump. Quayle was glad he was chosen,

George H. W. Bush not GW Bush.

40 posted on 12/05/2015 8:32:04 PM PST by plain talk
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