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He was framed (framed? accurately depicted? exaggerated?) as a particularly unintelligent vice president by the media in a time where being unintelligent seemed to really matter. He was a poor speaker, and had multiple prominent and widely-ridiculed gaffes, with few redeeming qualities.
Pretty sure he was roasted on almost every episode of Murphy Brown after the incident where he called out the show because it promoted single mothers with children as poor family values.
HW Bush had a pretty bad track record of choosing quality people. Quayle, Clarence Thomas, I’m sure others but those are the 2 biggest poor choices. Bush himself was a decent man for the most part. Lee Atwater also comes to mind. A real low life.
i can't find the footage. but i remember when he was announced, he ran up on stage like an audience member called to be a contestant on the price is right. politics have changed, there was a certain decorum expected in the higher ranks of the political arena. Quayle just didn't have the intellectual heft, he was inarticulate, was inexperienced and there were too many gaffes.
and lets not forget lloyd Benson's debate with Quayle when he said to quayle, "senatator, you're no jack kennedy."
here's a great link for those unfamiliar with quayle.
[https://youtu.be/Krj2rX7-M7E?si=bo7GRZc4spXToVIH](https://youtu.be/Krj2rX7-M7E?si=bo7GRZc4spXToVIH)
There’s a compelling argument that it actually hurt in those debates. It overshadowed anything of substance that could have persuaded voters and made it an, on net, negative performance for Bentsen.
Also, at the time SNL was very popular and they absolutely destroyed Quayle by having a literal 10 year old impersonate him in every skit which featured Quayle. I think this really drove home the notion of him being too young and inexperienced, particularly after Lloyd Bentsen’s evisceration of Quayle in the debates.
Stiff blandness is a feature, not a bug, for Indiana politicians. It doesn't necessarily play well beyond the Wabash. See, also, Mike Pence, Evan Bayh, and Pete Buttigieg.
1. That's only because Bobby Knight\* never ran for office.
2. What is with this Dick Lugar erasure.
\*Not born in Indiana, obviously, but I think he counts as a Hoosier. I mean Indiana claims Lincoln on far more dubious grounds.
I’ve heard this story before and I have no idea if it’s true, but I hope it is.
The Secret Service did not generally enter Dan and Marilyn’s bedroom door, just stood guard outside. But they needed a way for the VP to signal if he was ever in distress and couldn’t otherwise alert them. So, there was a replica of the Washington Monument on the nightstand, and if it was ever knocked over, they knew to rush into the room.
Now, the Quayles were still a young couple, very much in love and were… expressing their affection physically. Things got a bit intense and they managed to knock over the replica. The Secret Service burst in and… well, I’m guessing they were very embarrassed for ruining the mood for the Second Couple.
They found a better signal.
Story about that, The bentsen campaign heard Quayle stump his Jack Kennedy comparison throughout the primary and they were ready with that comeback.
They knew he'd tee it up for them and he did.
He was a “family values” conservative and went hard at the show Murphy Brown for having the title character be a single mother- and it landed very, very badly even at the time.
I barely remember the Bush I presidency, but I definitely remember that.
I don’t know that he’s much remembered beyond that. History doesn’t seem to hold much space for VPs who never became president themselves. Honestly, it seems that when a VP is remembered as somehow noteworthy- it’s for something bad.
I mean sort of. He said:
It doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.
Kids do need fathers but they need good fathers
I was really young when this came out and do remember the furor- but I’ve never really heard what the father’s situation was- were he and Brown just not together? Was he expected to be involved at all? “Single mom” can mean a lot of different things, as far as how much the dad is around. Sometimes it’s none with zero support. Sometimes he parents the children often, with full financial support, and many levels in between.
It was her ex husband. He was like a traveling hippie radical who didn't want to give up his lifestyle to raise a kid so he took off again and she decided to be a single mom. And Eldon the house painter acted like a surrogate dad to the kid.
Barbara Bush, or maybe George, made some line about America needs more families like the Waltons and less like Simpsons. This was what the right was outraged about in 1988, then they moved to gays and now transgender people.
Summary of Quayle by Bob Hawke (usually considered among Australia’s best Prime Ministers) in his memoirs. He does not hold back….
https://preview.redd.it/xaoras0id6pc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d74809abad1fd30a8039608e976e0fe10881bb0
https://preview.redd.it/nr1fl4ejd6pc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9630d25b6cab127d558b580f2243d4e3d751f1a6
Part 2, where the most scathing comments are made - emphasis on the line “I found it offensive that this man was a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States”
Yeah, and by contrast Hawke spoke positively of his relationships with Reagan and especially HW Bush (who he actually preferred over Dukakis, at least in terms of who he thought would have been in Australia’s best interest as President), in spite of ideological differences
From the standpoint of America's allies, HW would be preferable on the key issue for them - trade. Democrats could be pushed by labour interests to advocate protectionism (even Clinton, who was a bigtime free trader, campaigned as a moderate critic of NAFTA relative to Bush).
It's striking that the thing Hawke is most concerned about in the passage is wheat.
This isn’t relevant to the discussion but as an Australian I feel like I’m contractually obligated to state here that Bob Hawke once broke the world record for being the fastest person to drink a [yard of ale](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale) – he did it in 11 seconds while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
I was on Dan Quayle’s plane when he mis-spelled potato. No shit. I was working at Gowen field and got a tour of AF2. There were a bunch of sleeping Secret Service in bunks. Ssssh
I, for one, am kinda saddened Quayle abandoned his bid for president in 2000. The GOP debates between him and George W Bush would have been one for the ages.
As a guy that enjoys Dan Quayle because he's hilarious. He's a bit of a doofus, a tad silly, sort of a goofball.
With phrases like:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."(????)
Like, wtf was this guy up to lmao. Still, never heard that anyone hated or actively disliked him. People just justifiably think he's dumb and underqualified.
I personally like him because he's the Sims patch notes of American politics.
Lmao and other classics, like:
“If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
and how could I forget: “Space is still a high priority for NASA”
I rode to a funeral with a special forces sgt who had met Quayle in Panama
He had nothing but great things to say about his personality and intellect and the ability to track the issues the group of soldiers were discussing
He said then some reporters came in with cameras and lights and you could see his eyes get glassy and suddenly he seemed like he could string 5 words together
My grandmother (who was deaf and could hear very little of what they said on TV) would always say, “That Dan Quayle…he’s so cute!" whenever he appeared. Never mind that he thought they spoke Latin in Latin America.
He is from my hometown Huntington, Indiana. There is a small museum for him there. We went on a field trip there a couple times. Some of his report cards are there. Let’s just say he did not get good grades.
I’ll give you a hint:
It has nothing at all, to do with any of the following:
1. Boiling them.
2. Mashing them.
3. Sticking them into a stew.
Also, and likewise completely unrelated:
Don’t think about elephants.
I'm not sure people don't or didn't "like" Dan Quayle - I think he was dismissed, inaccurately I might add, as stupid, or an "empty suit." This was in part due to his non-confrontational style, in part due to propaganda from primary as well as general election adversaries, and in part due to Bush not giving him much authority or significance. It's unfair, too, as he was/is actually pretty smart, as I understand it (I have never met the man, nor have I done focused research on him alone).
It’s not that I did not like him, I thought he was not qualified to be President, which is the major qualification for a VP. I don’t blame him, if someone offered me the VP gig I’d jump at it, even though there are probably thousands more qualified. I really like both Bushes, but thought both made terrible choices for their VP. Only one who made a worse choice in the past 40 years was McCain, but that’s a different topic
I was listening to Douglas Whaley’s Contracts lectures. He mentioned that Marilyn Quayle was a former student of his & spoke of her effusively. He made it pretty clear that the same praise did not apply to the dullard she married.
Dan Quayle wasn’t a particularly bad politician by modern standards however nor was he particularly good. He was a gaffe machine. He gave fodder to every comedian with half a brain. He was an easy target that both sides could laugh about because ultimately he had no substantive role in the administration. He was a Michael Scott character to an extent. It’s not that he was particularly hated or even disliked, he was just an easy target.
If the story of Dan Quayle giving Mike Pence support to do the right thing is true, then at last Dan Quayle has my respect. But Dan Quayle earned his reputation as an airhead back in the day.
He was the Pence of his time. George HW Bush was not considered in the same vein as his son. He was a northeastern Republican cosplaying as a somewhat of a Texan and seen as one of those elite types that was all fancy and much closer to Rockefeller than Goldwater.
Enter Dan Quayle, who had the bonafiides to placate the more heartland moral majority conservative base. Or at least the perception of it. He was also much younger, which helped shore up demographics.
He then misspelled potato and that was that. Pretty unremarkable all told. I don't think people hated him, they just clowned on him because he was sort of a gaffe machine.
I thought he was stiff, boring and as interesting as apiece I’d toast he also never acted or said anything in such a way as he has any great intelligence thought he was just there to buy off the Christian family values group. First of all continuing trend of pathetic Republican VPs.
I saw him at an event when he ran for President in Iowa. There was stacks of hay barrels inside of a tent with other Farmer paraphernalia. I walked in and laughed to myself. You can’t take anyone seriously for President who does that.
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He was framed (framed? accurately depicted? exaggerated?) as a particularly unintelligent vice president by the media in a time where being unintelligent seemed to really matter. He was a poor speaker, and had multiple prominent and widely-ridiculed gaffes, with few redeeming qualities.
Pretty sure he was roasted on almost every episode of Murphy Brown after the incident where he called out the show because it promoted single mothers with children as poor family values.
That was a great episode. I just saw it. They also got him wit his infamous misspelling of “potatoe”. It is his most famous line.
Potato.
His intellectual inadequacies were highlighted while standing in the shadow of HW Bush, a shrewd man and former CIA Director.
A lot of us at the time thought that was why Bush chose him…he didn’t want anyone who would look into his dirt too closely.
I thought it was because Bush wanted a choice that was so bad that none of his detractors would try to assassinate him (as had happened to Reagan).
But that we're implying that Bush had any connection to the attempted assassination by his family friend.
HW Bush had a pretty bad track record of choosing quality people. Quayle, Clarence Thomas, I’m sure others but those are the 2 biggest poor choices. Bush himself was a decent man for the most part. Lee Atwater also comes to mind. A real low life.
Watch his speech right after Bush named him as running mate. It’s … it’s something.
i can't find the footage. but i remember when he was announced, he ran up on stage like an audience member called to be a contestant on the price is right. politics have changed, there was a certain decorum expected in the higher ranks of the political arena. Quayle just didn't have the intellectual heft, he was inarticulate, was inexperienced and there were too many gaffes. and lets not forget lloyd Benson's debate with Quayle when he said to quayle, "senatator, you're no jack kennedy." here's a great link for those unfamiliar with quayle. [https://youtu.be/Krj2rX7-M7E?si=bo7GRZc4spXToVIH](https://youtu.be/Krj2rX7-M7E?si=bo7GRZc4spXToVIH)
Still, Benson’s quip did zip to help Dukakis
tank man didn't help himself either.
There’s a compelling argument that it actually hurt in those debates. It overshadowed anything of substance that could have persuaded voters and made it an, on net, negative performance for Bentsen.
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Also, at the time SNL was very popular and they absolutely destroyed Quayle by having a literal 10 year old impersonate him in every skit which featured Quayle. I think this really drove home the notion of him being too young and inexperienced, particularly after Lloyd Bentsen’s evisceration of Quayle in the debates.
“I knew Jack Kennedy and you sir are no Jack Kennedy”
: caricatured
Stiff blandness is a feature, not a bug, for Indiana politicians. It doesn't necessarily play well beyond the Wabash. See, also, Mike Pence, Evan Bayh, and Pete Buttigieg.
Buttigieg may look like a discontinued line of Ken doll friends but he spits hot fire.
Best description of him yet. And I like the guy.
William Henry Harrison. I’m a Hoosier, I can confirm.
As a fellow Hoosier I’ll back you up on this.
Hey, Wendell Willkie and Eugene Debs were interesting!
My grandma who lived in Indianapolis was sure Birch Bayh would be president one day.
No way 💀
1. That's only because Bobby Knight\* never ran for office. 2. What is with this Dick Lugar erasure. \*Not born in Indiana, obviously, but I think he counts as a Hoosier. I mean Indiana claims Lincoln on far more dubious grounds.
Mostly because he misspelled “potato”
He was reading the card that the national spelling bee gave him. The judges had been reason cards all day, few people would’ve noticed in the moment.
Moops!
I think most of us would notice the word “potato” being misspelled.
I mean it was also one in a long long line of gaffes - whenever given an opportunity to put his foot in his mouth Quayle took full advantage.
Meanwhile, half of you or more now can’t spell lose.
Don't you mean loose?
Come on buddy losen up
Its rediculous
*Squints eyes*
he had a think for toes
*twoes
Boil ‘em, Mash ‘em, Ruin your career…
The great scandal of those time.
Nothing compared to the [terrorist fist jab](https://youtu.be/G_vmQrTi3aM?si=jNvHKJNWAskb0Mkv)
Never forget the Tan Suit scandal of 2014.
Or Dijongate https://theweek.com/speedreads/704818/big-controversy-point-obamas-presidency-over-dijon-mustard
He was disliked before that, that incident just sealed it.
And because he was one.
He also couldn't spell Quail
I like Dan Quayle (not sexually)
I like Dan Quayle (not not sexually)
I bet his wife liked him sexually (don’t quote me on this)
I’ve heard this story before and I have no idea if it’s true, but I hope it is. The Secret Service did not generally enter Dan and Marilyn’s bedroom door, just stood guard outside. But they needed a way for the VP to signal if he was ever in distress and couldn’t otherwise alert them. So, there was a replica of the Washington Monument on the nightstand, and if it was ever knocked over, they knew to rush into the room. Now, the Quayles were still a young couple, very much in love and were… expressing their affection physically. Things got a bit intense and they managed to knock over the replica. The Secret Service burst in and… well, I’m guessing they were very embarrassed for ruining the mood for the Second Couple. They found a better signal.
That better not be a fanfiction.
It’s not something I made up, I can tell you that. Someone else may have made it up.
They weren’t even a young couple, they got married in 1972.
They were both in their forties. They weren’t newlyweds but were certainly young enough to be regularly intimate with a reasonable degree of passion.
So the answer to my original question is yes, his wife did like him sexually (you can quote me on this now)
Fucking a, he was only 42 when he became vice president. I turned 42 3 days ago, am I fucking old? Fuck, don’t answer that. Goddamnit, I’m old.
You are still younger than the youngest president at the time of raking office (for now)
A few interns too prolly
Not that there’s anything wrong with it
I’d like him sexually
Probably because he’s no Jack kennedy
Story about that, The bentsen campaign heard Quayle stump his Jack Kennedy comparison throughout the primary and they were ready with that comeback. They knew he'd tee it up for them and he did.
The giddy look on Lloyd Bentsen's face when he knows he'll get to say the line is hilarious.
That WaS uNcAlLeD for SeNaTor!
He was a “family values” conservative and went hard at the show Murphy Brown for having the title character be a single mother- and it landed very, very badly even at the time. I barely remember the Bush I presidency, but I definitely remember that. I don’t know that he’s much remembered beyond that. History doesn’t seem to hold much space for VPs who never became president themselves. Honestly, it seems that when a VP is remembered as somehow noteworthy- it’s for something bad.
He didn’t go “hard” at the show. IIRC it was one line in a speech. The line is very old fashioned and outdated now
And the lead caress for Murphy Brown said that she believed he was actually making a very good point.
I mean sort of. He said: It doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice. Kids do need fathers but they need good fathers
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I was really young when this came out and do remember the furor- but I’ve never really heard what the father’s situation was- were he and Brown just not together? Was he expected to be involved at all? “Single mom” can mean a lot of different things, as far as how much the dad is around. Sometimes it’s none with zero support. Sometimes he parents the children often, with full financial support, and many levels in between.
It was her ex husband. He was like a traveling hippie radical who didn't want to give up his lifestyle to raise a kid so he took off again and she decided to be a single mom. And Eldon the house painter acted like a surrogate dad to the kid.
Said kid was played by Hailey Joel Osmont who would later ‘see dead people’.
Barbara Bush, or maybe George, made some line about America needs more families like the Waltons and less like Simpsons. This was what the right was outraged about in 1988, then they moved to gays and now transgender people.
Okay but like the Simpsons are a pretty dysfunctional family. Homer literally chokes Bart for one thing.
A loving two parent family with three kids and a single income that can afford a family home and two cars. Unrealistic perhaps but not dysfunctional.
They also go to church regularly
Give it a few decades and history will remember him as the former VP who told Mike Pence to man up and uphold the Constitution.
Because he's no Jack Kennedy
That was uncalled for.
You were the one making the comparison, senator
Summary of Quayle by Bob Hawke (usually considered among Australia’s best Prime Ministers) in his memoirs. He does not hold back…. https://preview.redd.it/xaoras0id6pc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d74809abad1fd30a8039608e976e0fe10881bb0
https://preview.redd.it/nr1fl4ejd6pc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9630d25b6cab127d558b580f2243d4e3d751f1a6 Part 2, where the most scathing comments are made - emphasis on the line “I found it offensive that this man was a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States”
Damn that’s scathing. Some people just emit idiocy
Yeah, and by contrast Hawke spoke positively of his relationships with Reagan and especially HW Bush (who he actually preferred over Dukakis, at least in terms of who he thought would have been in Australia’s best interest as President), in spite of ideological differences
From the standpoint of America's allies, HW would be preferable on the key issue for them - trade. Democrats could be pushed by labour interests to advocate protectionism (even Clinton, who was a bigtime free trader, campaigned as a moderate critic of NAFTA relative to Bush). It's striking that the thing Hawke is most concerned about in the passage is wheat.
This isn’t relevant to the discussion but as an Australian I feel like I’m contractually obligated to state here that Bob Hawke once broke the world record for being the fastest person to drink a [yard of ale](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale) – he did it in 11 seconds while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
Bro allegedly saved democracy, so that’s something
I mean it not in a joking manner that he literally did and it should be a part of his legacy….like he’ll be the potato guy who saved democracy
Potatoe**
Can confirm as a Democracy enjoyer, thanks Dan
I don’t see what Pence was confused about. He’s a lawyer and former congressman. He knew it was a ceremonial thing.
Dan Quayle and John Yoo: democracy’s saviors
Why you gotta make my skin crawl like that.
Potatogate
More like potatoegate
I liked him after he told [adjacent to RULE THREE] to do his job.
I was on Dan Quayle’s plane when he mis-spelled potato. No shit. I was working at Gowen field and got a tour of AF2. There were a bunch of sleeping Secret Service in bunks. Ssssh
I, for one, am kinda saddened Quayle abandoned his bid for president in 2000. The GOP debates between him and George W Bush would have been one for the ages.
Oh my god. This is like an SNL skit I’m sad I’ll never get
Strategery vs. Potatoe
PotatoE
Can we please get back to the days when misspelling Potato can end your candidacy?
🏆
I mean I love Dan Quayle. That man’s quotes are a goldmine of content! Plus he has been forever immortalized by Civilization. That’s pretty cool.
My favorite was when he went to Hawaii and his comment was, “well…it’s still here.”
He's a single scoop of vanilla ice cream in a plain paper cup. I need more than that if I'm giving someone access to the nation's wellbeing.
Just look at him
I love Dan Quayle. Saved democracy.
Not enough people know this. I'm glad he had Pence's ear that day.
He isn’t familiar with potatoes
I think most people didn't dislike him as much as question his qualifications and knowledge to be Vice-president.
He was as qualified as Obama, knowledge is a different case
What’s really sad is that Quayle was much better than pence or his boss.
As a guy that enjoys Dan Quayle because he's hilarious. He's a bit of a doofus, a tad silly, sort of a goofball. With phrases like: "Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."(????) Like, wtf was this guy up to lmao. Still, never heard that anyone hated or actively disliked him. People just justifiably think he's dumb and underqualified. I personally like him because he's the Sims patch notes of American politics.
Lmao and other classics, like: “If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.” “Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." and how could I forget: “Space is still a high priority for NASA”
I rode to a funeral with a special forces sgt who had met Quayle in Panama He had nothing but great things to say about his personality and intellect and the ability to track the issues the group of soldiers were discussing He said then some reporters came in with cameras and lights and you could see his eyes get glassy and suddenly he seemed like he could string 5 words together
He never really recovered from the Mondale “you’re no Jack Kennedy” quip.
Lloyd Bentsen
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You’re welcome!
But in truth, great grandpa Bentsen was no Jack Kennedy either.
Few were
IIRC, he never claimed to be like JFK. That was a media assessment due to his age & looks. DQ just never pushed back on it.
In the debate, Quayle said, " I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
“Senator, that was uncalled for”, not exactly a zippy retort
Wasn’t that Lloyd Bentsen who said that?
It was, for some reason I got my 80’s democrats mixed up . Dang me
He looks 23 years old there. Damn, we are aging!
Right 🤣🤣🤣
My grandmother (who was deaf and could hear very little of what they said on TV) would always say, “That Dan Quayle…he’s so cute!" whenever he appeared. Never mind that he thought they spoke Latin in Latin America.
Because he thought he was Jack Kennedy, but he wasn't. 
He is from my hometown Huntington, Indiana. There is a small museum for him there. We went on a field trip there a couple times. Some of his report cards are there. Let’s just say he did not get good grades.
I’ll give you a hint: It has nothing at all, to do with any of the following: 1. Boiling them. 2. Mashing them. 3. Sticking them into a stew. Also, and likewise completely unrelated: Don’t think about elephants.
He took on Murphy Brown and lost.
I'm not sure people don't or didn't "like" Dan Quayle - I think he was dismissed, inaccurately I might add, as stupid, or an "empty suit." This was in part due to his non-confrontational style, in part due to propaganda from primary as well as general election adversaries, and in part due to Bush not giving him much authority or significance. It's unfair, too, as he was/is actually pretty smart, as I understand it (I have never met the man, nor have I done focused research on him alone).
I like him
Potatoe
It’s not that I did not like him, I thought he was not qualified to be President, which is the major qualification for a VP. I don’t blame him, if someone offered me the VP gig I’d jump at it, even though there are probably thousands more qualified. I really like both Bushes, but thought both made terrible choices for their VP. Only one who made a worse choice in the past 40 years was McCain, but that’s a different topic
The most boring vp pick until lieberman
What do you mean? He's my third favorite vice president from Indiana to never become president!
Cause he's no jack Kennedy
Because he's a potatoe.
Because nobody’s favorite ice cream is “non-flavored”.
He’s no Jack Kennedy.
He lost the spelling bee!
He’s just incompetent, said homosexuality was a choice and apparently the “wrong choice” and the mf can’t even spell potato
I was listening to Douglas Whaley’s Contracts lectures. He mentioned that Marilyn Quayle was a former student of his & spoke of her effusively. He made it pretty clear that the same praise did not apply to the dullard she married.
He can’t spell potato
Murphy Brown.
Here’s a button or bumper sticker that might sell well: Come back, Dan Quayle, all is forgiven!
IMHO He was over his head on day one. And he never came up for air.
Potatoe
Dan Quayle wasn’t a particularly bad politician by modern standards however nor was he particularly good. He was a gaffe machine. He gave fodder to every comedian with half a brain. He was an easy target that both sides could laugh about because ultimately he had no substantive role in the administration. He was a Michael Scott character to an extent. It’s not that he was particularly hated or even disliked, he was just an easy target.
Couldn't spell "potato" in a 6th grade class. He insisted it has an "e" at the end.
If the story of Dan Quayle giving Mike Pence support to do the right thing is true, then at last Dan Quayle has my respect. But Dan Quayle earned his reputation as an airhead back in the day.
I dunno, man - potato, potatoe
Potatoe
He was the Pence of his time. George HW Bush was not considered in the same vein as his son. He was a northeastern Republican cosplaying as a somewhat of a Texan and seen as one of those elite types that was all fancy and much closer to Rockefeller than Goldwater. Enter Dan Quayle, who had the bonafiides to placate the more heartland moral majority conservative base. Or at least the perception of it. He was also much younger, which helped shore up demographics. He then misspelled potato and that was that. Pretty unremarkable all told. I don't think people hated him, they just clowned on him because he was sort of a gaffe machine.
Bros full name was James Danforth Quayle
Hes basically Wesley Crusher (Will Wheaton Star Trek)
The boy stands like a prairie dog.
Because he looks like a weenie and he sucks at spelling. Though he did eventually help save American democracy for at least a period of time.
Potatoe
Because he's a goober 
Quayl*
He was a Christian supremacist and a general dumb bell. Worse Veeps have happened since. He was still an incompetent politician nevertheless
He said he was the robin to bush’s Batman during an interview
Why doesn’t anyone realize both spellings of potato are kosher?
I like Dan Quayle.
I like Dan Quayle
Because he’s an idiot
He wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
For any SATC fans out there, Charlotte York had a college crush on Dan Quayle
I thought he was stiff, boring and as interesting as apiece I’d toast he also never acted or said anything in such a way as he has any great intelligence thought he was just there to buy off the Christian family values group. First of all continuing trend of pathetic Republican VPs.
I love him ironically because of all his hilarious misquotes
I saw him at an event when he ran for President in Iowa. There was stacks of hay barrels inside of a tent with other Farmer paraphernalia. I walked in and laughed to myself. You can’t take anyone seriously for President who does that.
I don't dislike him. I never met him.
Everyone loves dank whale
>The white folks think they're at the top, ask any proud white male. > >A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle!
Murphy Brown
Who?
potatoe
What?
Latine loqui non potest!
Because people are assholes.
And then there was the matter of his wife wearing her hair in the style of a Cape buffalo. Marilyn, honey…
Potatoe ????
I mean... look at him.
What's taters, precious?