Posted on 11/25/2008 6:30:37 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
THE DEBATE absolutely disposed of the question, Can Dan Quayle speak and think in public? The moat built around him by the Bush people during tbe past two months was largely responsible for giving out the impression that he was a basket case of illiteracy, and one or two comments caught from him during that period did much to excite suspicion that that was the case. But for ninety minutes he spoke well, trenchantly, and with a mature sense of priorities. Oh, he did the irritating things-if he reminds us one more time that he wrote the Joint Training Partnership Act, he will succeed in giving the impression that be believes Americans are incapable of remembering the Fourth of July. Obviously some sentences were, as with Senator Bentsen, prepared and memorized. So? Charles de Gaulle not only memorized the answers he gave at press conferences, but required questioners to memorize the questions he gave them to ask him. (I knew Charles de Gaulle, Dan. You're no Charles de Gaulle.)
There were two extra-political points of special interest. The first was the dumbfounding question put to him, not once but thrice: What would you do if you found yourself President of the United States? Now to be asked a question like that in public is to require that one rehearse the appropriate pieties. One needs to go through the business about how tragic it was that the duly elected President has vanished from the scene, and then a little moodsetting, so we pray for help from Providence, for ourselves, and for our countryand then what? Tbe best Dan Quayle could do was to say that he would call in his predecessor's Cabinet and advisors and seek their counsel, etc., etc.
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In my view, the unkindest attacks on Gov. Palin came from the conservative "high-hats" who ostensibly ridiculed her based on their allegiance to conservative "principles" For myself, I believe they did so for acceptance within their social circles.
I came upon this article by Mr. Buckley in defense of Dan Quayle. Mr. Buckley was a true intellectual elite- and since he was the sole judge of his worth, he didn't require or seek the acceptance of others. He merely spoke his truth and his principles. Here, to the extent that Mr. Quayle needed support for any weakness, real or perceived, Mr. Buckley had his back--they were both conservatives.
Hear, hear!
It’s always a joy reading old WFB columns and realizing all too well that there’s nobody even remotely of his caliber writing today.
Why does this sound so familiar?
Dan Quayle is an object lesson in the partisanship and bias of the media.
Dan Quayle may not have been JFK (to his credit, in my opinion) but one thing he wasn’t was a dummy. I have heard him speak off the cuff, and he at the time he knew what he wanted to say, presented it in a well parsed our and logically followed narrative, backed up by facts.
He was politically raped by the media the same way they tore down an honorable man like Gerald Ford. They set him up as a dummy, made fun of him in all the media outlets including things like Saturday Night Live, and presented him as a clumsy buffoon, something he was not.
My 13 year old nephew who is a fanatical Barack Obama supporter, recited all kinds of derogatory things about Dan Quayle, and his adherence to the liberal memes that are generated by the MSM just shocked me.
Great find! Thank you for posting.
I know they made fun of him for how he spelled - I believe it was potatoe - but I swear I was taught to spell it the same way.
you’re welcome.
“That was uncalled for.”
Maybe that should have been Hillary & Sarah’s response to their respective verbal-slaps from Obama.
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