What the GOP Needs – Dan Quayle
By Wink
Trivia question: Who, in 1999, derided George W Bush by saying “We do not want another candidate who needs on-the-job training.”?
Was is Vice President Al Gore? Nope. It wasn’t even a Democrat. It was Dan Quayle.
Remember Dan Quayle?
In August 1988, GOP presidential nominee GHW Bush picked him to be veep, and then won the presidential election in November.
As a candidate and as Vice President, Quayle seemed naïve and made a number of verbal gaffes.
Make no mistake though, DQ was no dummy, just a touch shallow and un-worldly. He was a child of privilege (not that there is anything wrong with that), and played a lot of golf (again, nothing wrong with that).
He was conservative, but not a demagogue.
He wasn’t even way off in the Murphy Brown flap. Kids ARE better off when they have two parents at home. (If you don’t know what the “Murphy Brown” flap is, look it up.)
Liberals made fun of his goof-ups, but Quayle is a Rhodes Scholar compared to ‘W’. Who knows how America (and the world) would have been different had he been able to knock off ‘W’ for the Republican nomination back in 2000?
(This was NEVER going to happen though. The same machine that got GHW Bush elected was in high gear for ‘W’, taking a lightweight, multiple-failed businessman to the highest office in the land. What a country.)
But back to Mr. Quayle.
Republicans will take back some House and Senate seats this fall. This always happens with the ‘out’ party. Regardless, the party is virtually leaderless.
Sorry, Giuliani, Palin, etc. are not serious candidates. Palin is now simply a money hound (there is a less polite term for this) and, unless we have another depression, Giuliani could never beat President Obama.
I am not saying he could beat Obama, but Dan Quayle carries a lot less baggage than all the other candidates, and he WAS the Vice President after all. That has to count for something.
And he is still only 63…..
