[Vendome]

Yes Quayle was brilliant but, he could not spell potato.

Spelling bees can be disastrous to your political aspirations.

What is he doing these days. Gotta look him up.

[lentulusgracchus]

Haven't heard a word. He and his wife Marilyn are a loss to the RNC leadership.

Ya know, though ......

With all Dan's problems with the media .... do you suppose maybe some of them were, well, you know, ......Palinesque? As in, somebody big and tall inside the RNC leadership, feeding old Dan to the sharks bit by bit, like what's been happening to Sarah?

After all, Quayle wasn't a member of The Club.

[slowhandluke]

Yes Quayle was brilliant but, he could not spell potato.

You do know that was a setup, don't you? The teacher of the class handed Dan Quayle a card with the spelling 'potatoe'. And being a polite and respectful guest in the room, he deferred to the teacher's spelling, and got hammered for it.

Once again, a Republican Senator assumed that the false politeness and fellowship of the Senate carried over into real life politics and the MSM for Republicans the way it does for Democrats. Quayle wasn't dumb, but he was not enough of the street politician.