Maybe he’s bringing back Dan Quayle who he helped to immortality by telling him to go to a school and spell potato. Wrong-Way Kristol strikes again!
“telling him (Quayle) to go to a school and spell potato”
Quayle got a bad rap for that. His spelling was correct, although not the #1 preferred spelling. Until the early ‘90s.
“The alternate spelling “potatoe,” while uncommon, was still used infrequently at that time (the 1990s). For example, the New York Times was still occasionally spelling potato with an -e as late as 1988. Spellings of “potatoe” can be found in the media all the way up to 15 June 1992, the date of the Quayle incident, at which point they suddenly stopped except when used in an ironic way.”