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1992: Gaffe with an 'e' at the end(Dan Quayle & 15 YRS after "potatoe")
capitalcentury.com ^ | The Trentonian | PAUL MICKLE

Posted on 06/24/2007 11:43:15 AM PDT by paltz

Dan Quayle's moment of embarrassment. William Figueroa, 12, was the boy who knew how to spell "potato" even though the veep insisted on adding an "e" to the end.

Just the other night on television, Jay Leno was poking fun at some gaffe by George W. Bush, whose picture morphed into a photograph of Dan Quayle on the screen behind the comic.

Six years out of office with two failed presidential bids now behind him, ex Vice President Quayle still ranks as America’s favorite dumb politician because of what happened in Trenton on June 15, 1992.

That’s the day, you probably recall, a Trenton sixth grader had to teach the Vice President of the United States that potato is not spelled with an e on the end.

In his 1994 memoir, Quayle devotes a whole chapter to the events in a classroom at Trenton’s Munoz Rivera School — and the impact of them on his career.

"It was a defining moment of the worst kind imaginable,’’ Quayle wrote in the autobiography. "Politicians live and die by the symbolic sound bite.’’

Quayle ruefully reported on a Washington Post article that suggested the Trenton flub got such wide media play because "it seemed like a perfect illustration of what people thought about me anyway.’’

Less than five months after the incident, Quayle and President Bush were voted out of office, replaced by Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Ever since, the ex VP has been a straight-faced political joke.

To understand why, it’s important to know something about the way politics and the media work in America. "Image is all’’ in politics, Quayle said, and the media not only project images, but also brings out any flaw in the picture.

Quayle’s image had been fodder for America comedians since the beginning, in 1988, when GOP presidential nominee George Bush tapped the 42-year-old Senator from Indiana as his VP.

When Quayle got on the victory podium with Bush for the first time at the GOP convention that summer someone remarked that he "looked like a guy who had just won a game show.’’

Quayle knew his boyish looks might hurt him and worked hard to present a studious image during the campaign. Despite a few blunders by Quayle, the Bush ticket prevailed in the election of 1988.

Days later, seeking to stifle the buzz in political circles that he was intellectually challenged, Quayle sat down with a group of top American political reporters for a televised two-hour discussion.

The newsmen, and many viewers, were left with the impression that, for all the jokes about him, the new vice president was a well-informed, politically savvy young man.

Through most of his term — traveling the world to represent the president, meeting heads of state, giving speeches to all types of groups — Quayle managed to avoid any serious gaffes. At least that’s how he put it in his bio, Standing Firm.

June 15, 1992, started with Quayle flying out of Washington at 8:15 a.m. for a speech in New York that would be "about everything that was wrong with that city.’’

Quayle told the Manhattan Institute in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria that New York was a mess because the liberal political policies of the past 40 years had failed.

In the book, Quayle said he knew little about his next stop, in Trenton, other than it was to help spotlight the city’s Weed and Seed program, which still provides anti-drug education to grade schoolers while they also are being watched by adults until their parents get home from work.

When he got the Munoz Rivera School, Quayle spoke with some women involved in the program, saw a drill team perform and looked in on some self-esteem classes before his aides started hustling him off to another classroom for a staged spelling bee.

"What are we supposed to do?’’ I asked Keith Nahigian, the advance man who had prepared this little photo op,’’ Quayle wrote.

"Just sit there and read these words off some flash cards, and the kids will go up and spell them at the blackboard,’’ the handler told the VP.

"Has anyone checked the card?’’ another aide asked.

"Oh, yeah,’’ responded Nahigian. "We looked at them and they’re just very simple words. No big deal.’’

Enter William Figueroa, 12, a sixth-grader from the Mott School in the South Ward who had been bused to Munoz Rivera to take part in the vice presidential event.

Figueroa knew how to spell potato, and he wrote it in a legible script on the blackboard when Quayle announced his word for the spelling bee.

Quayle looked at the blackboard, then at his contest card, and gently and quietly told the boy, "You’re close, but you left a little something off. The e on the end.

"So William, against his better judgment and trying to be polite, added an e’’ and won applause for it from those assembled in the classroom, including Mayor Doug Palmer, Quayle wrote.

The misspelling wasn’t mentioned until the end of the press conference afterward, when one reporter asked Quayle, "How do you spell potato?’’

"I gave him a puzzled look, and then the press started laughing. It wasn’t until that moment that I realized anything was wrong,’’ Quayle wrote.

"None of the staff people had told me. Caught off guard, I just rattled on a little to fill the air — something about how I wasn’t going to get into spelling matters — but I knew something was really amiss.’’

Indeed. At about the time of the gaffe, in fact, The Trentonian’s night reporter was arriving at the office and hearing the editor’s plea for a story suitable for page 1.

"What are you talking about? You’ve got the vice president in town today,’’ the reporter said.

"You know Quayle’s not going to say anything newsworthy,’’ the editor responded.

"I’m not talking about his political message. I’m saying watch for Quayle to foul up something,’’ the reporter said.

Soon after, the reporter who had covered Quayle’s Trenton tour showed up in the newsroom and was ask how the event had gone.

He said Quayle delivered the usual political pap, prompting the night reporter to holler out, "Yeah, but what did he foul up?"

"Well,’’ the reporter responded, "Quayle can’t spell potato.’’

The editor had his front-page story, complete with the only media interview with Figueroa, who said the experience made him believe all the talk about the vice president being "an idiot.’’

Soon after the paper hit the streets, the scene in the Trenton classroom was playing on national television, just as Quayle had warned his wife it would be when he got home from Trenton the night before.

Comics loved it, and a staffer from the David Letterman Show called The Trentonian the morning after seeking help locating Figueroa so he could be invited on the show.

The next day, after his father sent him for a haircut and warned him to speak a bit more diplomatically about the vice president of the United State, Figueroa made his national television debut.

The Trenton kid wowed the Letterman audience. He told of the spelling bee, saying, "I knew he was wrong, but since he’s the vice president I went back to the blackboard and put an e on the end and went back to my seat.

"Afterward, I went to the dictionary, and there was potato like I spelled it.’’ Figueroa wouldn’t call Quayle an "idiot’’ again, in deference to his father, William Collazo, and Palmer, who had called the boy’s mother and warned that funds for Weed and Seed could be cut off if the VP got mad enough.

"I know he’s not an idiot,’’ he told the goading Letterman, "but he needs to study more. Do you have to go to college to be vice president?’’

From then on, the potato incident would become a campaign weapon for the Democrats backing Clinton and Gore. Figueroa was flown in to deliver the pledge of allegiance at the Democratic National Convention that summer.

Image-conscious Quayle laughed it off on the outside. But as his book indicates, he was fuming mad about the gaffe and blamed his aides for letting it happen and the press for exploiting it.

He referred to Gore saying in a speech that a leopard had changed it "stripes,’’ and said if he had said that, "there would have been a week of Quayle jokes on the late-night shows and three dozen editorial cartoons set inside zoos.’’

The media’s "obsession with my small verbal blunders went beyond the bounds of fairness,’’ Quayle wrote in his book.

Now, fast forward five years to 1997, when The Trentonian decided to look up William Figueroa to see how he was doing after his hour of fame.

By then, he was a 17-year-old high school dropout who had fathered a child and was working a low-paying job at an auto showroom.

Quayle, Mr. Family Values, couldn’t be reached for comment on what had become of his "potato’’ nemesis. 1992: Gaffe with an 'e' at the end


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1 posted on 06/24/2007 11:43:18 AM PDT by paltz
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To: paltz

Yet Jimmy Carter gets a Nobel. Go figure.


2 posted on 06/24/2007 11:48:19 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: paltz

My, my, my. Somebody has issues, don’t they?


3 posted on 06/24/2007 11:48:43 AM PDT by RichInOC (Stupidity is its own punishment...but too much of the press thinks they're exempt.)
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To: paltz

An excellent illustration of why the MSM is our most dangerous enemy. By selective reporting (i.e. propagandizing and censorship), they could make Albert Einstein look like Zippy the Pinhead.


4 posted on 06/24/2007 11:50:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Gaza: Your one-stop schadenfreude entertainment center.)
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To: paltz
ex Vice President Quayle still ranks as America’s favorite dumb politician

Naah. He's a piker compared to these clowns.

5 posted on 06/24/2007 11:51:30 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: RichInOC

I give the former VPOTUS credit...he is not out in the world telling every one else how to live, and what is wrong with the USA, like some past Presidents, and Vice Presidents


6 posted on 06/24/2007 11:51:53 AM PDT by JoanneSD (Illegals represented without taxation.. Citizens taxed without representation)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Made me wonder if Dan Quayle would have been given a fairer shake if the internet, fox, and talk radio emerged sooner while he was in office.


7 posted on 06/24/2007 11:52:02 AM PDT by paltz
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To: paltz
1 Republican gaff = 100,000 media "reports"

100,000 democrat gaffs = zero media reports

Guess that 10 to 1 stuffing of the media with dishonest democrat partisans pays off with massive manipulation of the public.


8 posted on 06/24/2007 11:52:25 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: paltz

I thought potato with an e or without is correct


9 posted on 06/24/2007 11:52:27 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("I fear we have woken a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve" - Osama 9-11-01?)
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To: paltz

While potato is spelled this way now, it wasn’t always. Someone who reads some of the older literature might come across the ‘e’ spelling here and there. This might demonstrate that Quayle has spent significant time not only reading modern political and historical works but the cites and the cites of the cites. It is not easy to come down instantly from that level to that of the contemporaneous reporter at every PR photo-op stop.


10 posted on 06/24/2007 11:54:46 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: paltz
Give me Dan Quayle ANYDAY over this dweeb:

 

11 posted on 06/24/2007 11:55:53 AM PDT by Darnright (Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before)
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To: paltz
Everyone KNOWS AlGore is the brilliant VP
12 posted on 06/24/2007 11:56:17 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: paltz

It sounds like William Figueroa turned out to be one of the weeds. I wonder how that Weed and Feed program is going now? Everybody knows a government program never dies.


13 posted on 06/24/2007 11:56:56 AM PDT by seowulf
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To: paltz

I remember this - Quayle putting an ‘e’ on the end of potato was turned into a scandal worse than Watergate.


14 posted on 06/24/2007 11:57:59 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: paltz

Damn good question (i.e., maybe / maybe not / beats me). I’m certain that without the Internet, the TANG forgeries would have denied President Bush a second term.


15 posted on 06/24/2007 11:59:53 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Gaza: Your one-stop schadenfreude entertainment center.)
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To: paltz
Didn’t the card Quayle was holding have it spelled as “potatoe”? If he had said correct initially, then the issue would be that he couldn’t read what was on the card. He was in a no-win situation.
16 posted on 06/24/2007 12:03:10 PM PDT by joonbug
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To: paltz

Dan Quayle was more qualified than the articulate and clean Barack Hussein Obama Jr.


17 posted on 06/24/2007 12:10:40 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: FormerACLUmember
This photo reinforces the Soprano nature the Hillbilly_Beast wishes to portray.

"Tom Morrow..Tom Morrow..I luv yah Tom Morrow your only a Dago Weigh.."

Of course Tony wouldn't like the reference to his girth. He would reply without Mirth!

Bada Bing!! Your Thighness!

18 posted on 06/24/2007 12:13:29 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt." (or since these things are so!))
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To: paltz

Fireworks is spelled with an “e” too, Trentonian.


19 posted on 06/24/2007 12:16:39 PM PDT by bvw
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To: joonbug

Yes, the teacher’s card had the misspelling “potatoe”. The big picture — as the article suggests, in a waye — is that the student learned well from the media’s lessons of that day. He learned that Dan Quayle and his ideas were objects of derision. Therefore the child-now-man fathers children Murphy Brown style. Zippless F*kily.


20 posted on 06/24/2007 12:19:29 PM PDT by bvw
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To: paltz
I have two questions about Dan Quayle:

Q1. Is "Standing Firm" the best title for a book, especially when people are already laughing at you?

Q2. How did he get his current job? (From Wikipedia: Dan Quayle is Chairman of an international division of Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund) Aren't hedge funds supposed to be run by brilliant financiers?

21 posted on 06/24/2007 12:26:16 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: Las Vegas Ron
I too think I have seen potato spelled with an e at the end. In old English romance novels maybe.

I never heard gore’s faux pa about the “leopards stripes”, imagine that?

22 posted on 06/24/2007 12:28:43 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: paltz
"Quayle looked at the blackboard, then at his contest card, and gently and quietly told the boy, "You’re close, but you left a little something off. The e on the end."

It always infuriates me when they play this game. Douches like leno and letterman, both barely above the median IQ, have made a good living retelling this lie. What they conveniently leave out is that Quayle had been handed the card which had been filled out for him by a publik skul teacher. Of course he got flustered in the heat of the moment.

Add to the fact that potatoe is a recognized variant, and there you go. In the end it doesn't matter, as long as the libs can get in a gratuitous shot.

Screw 'em with a rotten potatoe...
23 posted on 06/24/2007 12:35:23 PM PDT by rockrr (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
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To: joonbug

That was my understanding. The article mentions the fact he was using flash cards. Hell, he was reading the words from something already printed, he wasn’t just grabbing them out of the air.


24 posted on 06/24/2007 12:38:27 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: paltz

Will the media ever mark the anniversary of Shiela Jackson Lee asking the scientists to move the Mars rover over to show where the American astronauts planted the flag?

That shows a deeper disconnect with history and significance.

How about the anniversary of Al Gore Junior’s claim of having invented the internet? Oh wait, he says he only suggested it. Must’ve been while he was in Vietnam staring down the end of his own rifle because Usenet goes back DECADES.


25 posted on 06/24/2007 12:42:15 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on Americans who will ABC get to read the conservative rebuttal?)
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To: paltz
Dan Quayle is a decent guy, but he did bring some of this on himself.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

26 posted on 06/24/2007 12:45:32 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: rockrr
What they conveniently leave out is that Quayle had been handed the card which had been filled out for him by a publik skul teacher.

Then again, the TAKS test was formerly called the TASK test and I am of the mind some educrat misspelled and we got stuck with the new term.

27 posted on 06/24/2007 12:50:28 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on Americans who will ABC get to read the conservative rebuttal?)
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To: paltz

No, seriously, I want to know why anybody, even the nuttiest lefty, gives enough of a damn about that episode fifteen years later to give it anything more than a couple of lines in “This Day in History”. It’s not as if there’s nothing more timely to report on.


28 posted on 06/24/2007 12:54:52 PM PDT by RichInOC (Stupidity is its own punishment...but too much of the press thinks they're exempt.)
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To: paltz

Dan Quayle, Ted “Chap Acquitted” Kennedy and Bill Jefferson Clinton are all entered in a 3 man spelling bee. Who wins?

Answer: Dan Quayle—he was the only one to know that “harass” was only one word.


29 posted on 06/24/2007 12:56:48 PM PDT by nd76
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To: paltz

So the editor was looking for a gaffe before he had one. That says it all about these biased scum in the liberal media.


30 posted on 06/24/2007 12:59:20 PM PDT by j.cam
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To: paltz
"Quayle knew his boyish looks might hurt him and worked hard to present a studious image during the campaign."

Better than being voted Prom Queen like some VP candidates:

You can't call John Edwards a silly f****t without being sent to rehab but the press can call George H.W. Bush a "wimp" and talk up how the "wimp factor" is ruining his campaign.

31 posted on 06/24/2007 1:00:21 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will ABC news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: paltz
What was really ridiculous about the Quayle incident is that potatoe used to be one of the acceptable spellings of the item. If the cue card had it spelled that way, Quayle should certainly not have taken the abuse so meekly.

Moreover, Conservatives, generally, should have rallied around Quayle, when he spoke out against the media's effort to make having babies out-of-wedlock seem acceptable, in a popular television series--which incidentally was followed by other examples of the same conditioning efforts in other series. It is by stigmatizing socially deleterious conduct that a healthy society protects itself.

32 posted on 06/24/2007 1:03:37 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: j.cam
The partisan press pulled the same crap in 2000. There are quotes from reporters who were assigned to the Bush campaign who said that they were bored hearing him give the same speech in 3 or 4 different cities in a day.

Their highlight was looking for a gaffe. Rather than cutting the salient point from any of the day’s speeches, they instead ignored his message and went on a superficial attack.

No different than what the press does in Frank Capra’s film when Mr. Smith first goes to Washington and they get him to pose for some photos for the press that are then given a series of insulting captions.

If Bush’s political advisers had been savvy, they would’ve seized upon this method of reporting and had candidate Bush deliberately fumble on his key statements. They may sound bite his speech but the public would still hear his message.

33 posted on 06/24/2007 1:05:50 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will ABC news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: Ohioan

He got thrown under the bus. With the faces in the room all laughing at him, he should’ve turned the card around, shown it to the cameras, and used his pointing finger (middle) to stress that was what was on the card.

He would’ve forever lost the teachers’ union but that vote wasn’t his to begin with.


34 posted on 06/24/2007 1:08:11 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will ABC news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: paltz
Made me wonder if Dan Quayle would have been given a fairer shake if the internet, fox, and talk radio emerged sooner while he was in office.

Well, whose fault is that? He should have invented it, like that other VP did.

35 posted on 06/24/2007 1:08:24 PM PDT by tarator
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To: Ohioan

Quayle was right about Murphy Brown, and his critics wrong. Liberalism is a cancer that eats the soul...


36 posted on 06/24/2007 1:13:58 PM PDT by rockrr (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
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To: bvw; paltz
Now, fast forward five years to 1997, when The Trentonian decided to look up William Figueroa to see how he was doing after his hour of fame. By then, he was a 17-year-old high school dropout who had fathered a child and was working a low-paying job at an auto showroom. Quayle, Mr. Family Values, couldn’t be reached for comment on what had become of his "potato’’ nemesis.

The conclusion of the article almost seems to imply a connection between Quayle's shortcomings and Figueroa's not-so-hot outcome.

37 posted on 06/24/2007 1:14:52 PM PDT by rimtop56
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To: Republican Wildcat
I remember this - Quayle putting an ‘e’ on the end of potato was turned into a scandal worse than Watergate.

Watergat.

38 posted on 06/24/2007 1:22:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: wideminded
Aren’t hedge funds supposed to be run by brilliant financiers?

I have a question for you. Is the failure to properly spell “Potato(e)” a disqualifier if you wish to be a financier?

39 posted on 06/24/2007 1:22:51 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: paltz

When it became evident Dan Quayle’s wife towered over him intellectually, the term “overmarried” entered the national vocabulary.


40 posted on 06/24/2007 1:23:41 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: Republican Wildcat
His comments regarding Murphy Brown were about ten years ahead of their time, too.
41 posted on 06/24/2007 1:27:20 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: wideminded

“Aren’t hedge funds supposed to be run by brilliant financiers?”

If you can’t be brilliant, famous works just as well. See Chelsea Clinton.


42 posted on 06/24/2007 1:29:08 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: rockrr
Candice Bergen Agrees with Dan Quayle
43 posted on 06/24/2007 1:42:41 PM PDT by paltz
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To: joonbug
Didn’t the card Quayle was holding have it spelled as “potatoe”? If he had said correct initially, then the issue would be that he couldn’t read what was on the card. He was in a no-win situation.

The Liberal Media were going always out to make Quayle look like an idiot. It happened to be the "Potato/Patatoe" Incident, but it easily could have been something else. When he referred to Murphy Brown the Liberal Media claimed he thought the character was a real person. Clearly he was referring to the show, but all that matter was making him out to be an idiot.

On the bright side, I feel that Conservatives have learned from this incident. Always remember that the Liberal Media is your enemy. If a similar incident happened now I feel that Conservatives would defend the attacked Conservative and point out the shallowness of the attack.

44 posted on 06/24/2007 1:50:25 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 ($5,000 for a piece of American Sovereignty)
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To: paltz
Dan Quayle '08!

Seriously.

Yes. I'd vote for him before any of the other "Republican" front-runners.

45 posted on 06/24/2007 1:50:56 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: paltz
dictionary.com:

The singular spelling variants potato vs. potatoe co-existed into the 19th century. Potatoe in the 20th century came to be considered a misspelling, while the plural remains potatoes.

46 posted on 06/24/2007 1:59:08 PM PDT by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck.)
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To: paltz; Repeal 16-17

Good catch.

I’m heartened by the comments of many here who did learn the right lessons from Dan’s Debacle. We’ve seen that some sincere and honorable men are their own worst enemies when they speak (especially extemporaneously), and some “world-class a$$holes” are as smooth and glib as, well as used car salesmen.

Repeal is correct in that we (any of us, but especially our public representatives) should NEVER trust the drive-by media.


47 posted on 06/24/2007 2:01:59 PM PDT by rockrr (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
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To: rimtop56
Today's Trentonian: PA FIRWORKS DEBATE HEATS UP
48 posted on 06/24/2007 2:29:26 PM PDT by bvw
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To: paltz

Anibody hoo onsly nos won vay too spel a wort ‘as know emagenation!


49 posted on 06/24/2007 2:32:47 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: paltz

Funny, I just met VP Dan Quayle briefly a couple of weeks ago. He seems to be thriving well in private enterprise.


50 posted on 06/24/2007 2:48:51 PM PDT by GWB00 (Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
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