They turned against Quayle and sent a Democrat to succeed him in the House and then brought out the second Bayh a few years later. He became such a laughingstock that he left Hossier land for hot pastures in the Southwest. I had forgotten Dan beat the first Birch though.
Quayle, a capable and decent fellow, allowed the MSM to perfect the ridicule attack to destroy Republicans. Palin’s experience was similar.
I believe that’s why so many of us like Trump despite his many flaws. He’s the Phalanx CIWS of politics when the MSM is around.
You’re misremembering. Quayle was succeeded in both his House and Senate seat by Dan Coats. When Coats resigned his House seat in 1989, Democrat Jill Long won the special (this was at a time when the IN delegation was ludicrously overrepresented with Dems, 7 to 3, with just Republicans Dan Burton, John Myers and J.P. Hiler, and Hiler went down to Tim Roemer in 1990, making it 8D-2R. It took until 1994 to regain 4 seats, a 6-4 majority for the GOP again).
Quayle was never a “laughingstock” in Indiana. What he did was follow advice given to him by President Nixon that simply did not apply to him. Nixon told him to forgo running for statewide office again and urged him to move to Arizona and begin to build a secondary base of support there in order to run for President in either 1996 or 2000. His biggest mistake was not running for the open Governorship in 1996, which he would’ve won handily (as it was, Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith got dragged down in the final weeks over some parochial issue related to the police in the city, IIRC). At the same time, Marilyn Quayle, an intelligent Conservative in her own right, should’ve been the 1998 U.S. Senate nominee when Coats turned tail and run rather than face ex-Gov. Bayh, leaving a weak liberal RINO Fort Wayne Mayor, Paul Helmke, as the nominee.
Allowing Dan Quayle to show his stuff as a Chief Executive would’ve gone a long way into proving he was not the media-created dunce and would’ve given a far greater chance at running for President in 2000.