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(snip) Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UtahSen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Sen. Susan Collins, R-MaineSen. Olympia Snowe, R-MaineSen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H.(snip) Former acting Gov. Jane Swift, R-Mass.Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.Former Gov. Michael Dukakis, D-Mass. Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.(snip)

Stateline, Nev. - Former Vice President Dan Quayle gives President Obama high marks for surrounding himself with quality advisers on national security and the economy. But he says the verdict is still out on whether his Democratic administration will govern as liberally as he campaigned. "I think his biggest challenge is to tame the left wing of his party," Quayle said in an interview with The Associated Press at Lake Tahoe. "I guess we'll find out how `left' Obama really is because he's going to have to make some very tough decisions where he is either going to have to...

The B-Team is now trying to do the job, but let's face it, the audience for clowns like Chris Matthews is very small and has already bought the meme. Yet Matthews keeps on trying to sell it on television's doormat of cabel new outlets MSNBC. Like a demented Billy Mays hawking bogus product OxyClean by saying "I get so excited every time I do this," Matthews gets a thrill running up his leg from ShamWow President Barack Obama.

...(Excerpt) The “Dan Quayling” of Sarah Palin continues and this make-her-look-stupid-campaign testifies to the fact that she remains a formidable political figure. The irony of this is largely lost on most of the “beautiful” minds over at NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, & ABC, where the teleprompters double as mirrors. The charismatic Governor of Alaska draws enthusiastic crowds wherever she goes – even after the defeat of the Republican ticket at the hands of the yes-we-can guys. And the very idea that she can make millions with a book at a time when publishers are shy about taking many risks in...

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...

Mr. J. Danforth Quayle Chairman Cerberus Capital Management And Why Does Your Name Sound Otherwise Familiar? Never Mind Dear Mr. Quayle, So you’re the chairman of the bunch that owns Chrysler, eh? Fun times for you. Not only is your company just this side of bankruptcy, but your two bigger domestic competitors are in as bad a condition as you are. You can’t even get any face time! It’s not like 30 years ago, when that attention-mongering guy ran your company and Chrysler was all over the news for needing a government bailout to survive. These days? Get in line....

Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin’s pluck...

If anyone knows what it is like to be Sarah Palin right now, it is James Danforth Quayle. "It sure sounded familiar," Dan Quayle chuckled, his voice coming over the telephone line from Phoenix, 20 years and a lifetime away from the explosion of shock and negative news stories that greeted his ascension to the vice presidential nomination, as it has hers.

The early days of the air war, Americans rejoiced at film footage of Patriot missiles knocking Iraqi Scud missiles out of the sky. Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney commented, "A decade of gloom-and-gloom reporting made a lot of people forget that we do, in fact, lead the world in advanced technology." The Patriots, made by Raytheon, hit 45 of the 47 Scuds launched by Iraq. It is a complex weapon utilizing sophisticated radar and electronics and requiring quick thinking by soldiers who operate it. While our media couldn't ignore the Patriot's success, the Gannett news service was one of the...

The Democrats are starting to pan John McCain's surprise pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, suggesting that he went a little too far in his search for a game-changing VP. House majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the most senior African American in Congress, told SCETV's Mark Quinn this morning he thinks Plain is a "very risky" choice for McCain. "I think (her selection) would be something similiar to Dan Quayle," Clyburn said. "Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrasment as a campaigner..."

As bloggers on the Left celebrated the arrest of Larry Sinclair, the man who alleges he used drugs and had sex with then-State Sen. Barack Obama in the back of a limousine in Chicago in November, 1999, I couldn't help but think back to the 1988 presidential election when it was Indiana Senator Dan Quayle who was put on the hot seat by a convicted terrorist bomber and perjurer over Quayle's alleged drug use with the man. Sinclair had just concluded a press conference at the National Press Club this past Wednesday, which was packed with reporters and where he...

Catching up on this week's Pop Culture we find a fellow who got his finger stuck in his gas tank and a couple who made mad love on a roof to end up dead. Some news on the Berlin polar bear cutie, Al Gore's daughter yaps about nothing, Prince William gossip about his girlfriend and my own comments about William and Harry's joke of an initerview. And whatever happened to that kid who could spell "potato" when VP Dan Quayle could not? Think he ended up a genius at Harvard? Heh.

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...

Dan Quayle Leaves Bush-Bashing Concert Former Vice President Dan Quayle walked out of a John Mellencamp concert in Nevada this weekend after the performer took a verbal shot at President George W. Bush. Quayle, who served as vice president from 1989-93 with Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, left the concert after Mellencamp dedicated his rendition of "Walking Tall” to "everyone hurt by the policies of the current Bush administration,” according to the San Jose Mercury News. Quayle immediately left the concert. He later said through a publicist, "Well, I think Mellencamp’s performance was not very good to begin with,...

CNN) -- Dan Quayle was little known nationally when George H.W. Bush picked the young GOP senator from Indiana as his running mate in 1988. Quayle's golden-boy looks appealed to the cameras, but his verbal missteps quickly attracted the most media attention. Today, politics takes a back seat to business for the former vice president. Quayle, 58, spends much of his time traveling as chairman of the investment firm Cerberus Global Investment.

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean was in Phoenix Wednesday but the state's top Democrat -- Gov. Janet Napolitano-- steered clear of the liberal bulldog during his Arizona visit. Dean addressed a rally hosted by the Young Democrats of Arizona and attended by state Democratic Party chairman Jim Pederson. Pederson is a shopping mall developer and is considering a challenge next year to GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl. But the head of the Democratic ticket, Napolitano, was not at the Dean appearance and had no meetings scheduled with the former Vermont governor and vanquished 2004 presidential candidate. Napolitano spokeswoman Jeanine...

Senator Gil Cedillo's bill to give California driver's licenses to illegal aliens is set to be heard in the Senate Transportation & Housing Committee this Thursday. Please take time today to contact the committee members and ask them to oppose this bill. more information available at www.saveourlicense.com email all of the committee members (except for Maldonado, Runner & Simitian who don't use public email addresses. Use our website to contact them.)

By Michael Marizco ARIZONA DAILY STAR U.S. Border Patrol agents captured a sex offender and a gang member trying to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend. The two arrests push the number of illegal entrants with criminal records captured in the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector up to more than 22,000 this fiscal year. But not all are being prosecuted, mostly because the crimes were low-end felonies or misdemeanors, officials say. Even those with felony warrants out of Arizona courts are not always prosecuted, one recent arrest demonstrates. The number of entrants with criminal records has been expounded as a...

Announcing the citizen movement to elect Dan Quayle in 2008. America needs strong, simple leadership to overcome the challenges we will face in the future and to maintain the conservative hegemony we have fought for. Dan Quayle is the best candidate to lead our party after GWB leaves office. Please visit our website, and join the movement! www.DanQuayle2008.com

Taking illegals for a spin I got a press release the other day from one of those liberal interest groups. The release called for New Jersey to start issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens.......Following is the release. Notice how the writer artfully makes a radical idea seem acceptable to mainstream Americans. I am an expert in decoding political spin, so I have put in brackets my explanations of just how the spin doctor operates. Here goes: "The REAL ID Act of 2005 has now been passed by both houses of Congress and is poised for the President's signature. New Jersey...

Hillary gets it. Hillary Clinton says she's against illegal immigration. And she would fine employers who hire illegal aliens. Pundits say the New York Democrat is using this hot-button issue to position herself for the 2008 presidential election. It's a way to hit Republicans from the right. Polls show huge majorities of both Republicans and Democrats oppose illegal immigration -- and are frustrated that President Bush won't do a thing to stop it. But this issue does not belong to the right. Or it shouldn't. Illegal immigration hurts most liberal causes. It depresses wages, crushes unions and kills all hope...

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano said Friday she might veto the state's entire $8.2 billion budget over a dispute with the Republican-controlled Legislature on funding to teach English. A veto would force the Legislature, which adjourned about 1:15 Friday morning after 123 days, to return in a special session. Napolitano said the budget deal negotiated with the GOP leadership a week earlier included an "understanding" that Republicans "would sit down and negotiate a Flores resolution with the Democrats." That refers to a 14-year-old lawsuit in which a federal judge ruled Arizona was not meeting its legal obligation to provide adequate...

Gov. Janet Napolitano defended her immigration record Wednesday amid criticism of several recent vetoes and increasing expectations the GOP will paint her as weak on border issues in next year's election. Last year, Napolitano opposed Proposition 200, which denies welfare benefits to illegals and was approved by voters. She also favors allowing illegal immigrants to receive state driver's licenses. This year the Democrat has vetoed several conservative immigration-related bills this year including measures: * Requiring federal, state or tribal identification to be presented in order to receive government services. * Tightening up identification requirements for prospective voters. * Making English...

By Michael Marizco ARIZONA DAILY STAR Seven members of a "significant" migrant smuggling ring that operated in Tucson and Mammoth were arrested by federal agents Monday. The seven people arrested are part of a larger group that moved hundreds of people across the Arizona border to states as far away as Florida. The organization used at least four Tucson homes to stash people, and used Western Union to collect a fee from family members of the illegal border crossers it smuggled across. The migrant smugglers admitted to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they collected $430,000 in wire transfers,...

Marilyn Quayle is talking to top Arizona Republicans regarding a possible run for governor next year, sources tell The Business Journal. Mrs. Quayle -- an attorney and the wife of former vice president Dan Quayle -- has had recent meetings with Republican congressional members and top party leaders regarding a challenge to incumbent Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano. Top state and national Republicans and some of their business allies are heavily recruiting Quayle or Surgeon General Richard Carmona for a run against Napolitano. Quayle and Carmona are considered the GOP's best shots at knocking off Napolitano next year. Several other top...

The chatter regarding a possible Marilyn Quayle bid for Arizona governor next year is heating up as Republicans look to unseat Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano. Some top Republicans are trying to get the wife of former vice president Dan Quayle to take on Napolitano. Speculation regarding a possible Quayle run increased in the past couple of days with former governor Fife Symington announcing he would not run against Napolitano next year. Symington specifically mentioned Quayle as a top challenger for Napolitano. That has fueled talk that Quayle is seriously considering a run and that Republicans may be clearing the primary...

KERRY'S 'SHOOT QUAYLE' REMARK TREATED WITH KID GLOVES Sen, Jesse Helms(R.) has certainly received relentless savaging from the media for his tart remark that President Bill Clinton had better have a "bodyguard" if he visits military installations in the senator's home state of North Carolina. But the same media barely noticed the comment of Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) back in 1988--shortly after George Bush was elected President--that "The Secret Service is under orders that if Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle." (For more on the media treatment of Helms, see page 3.) Unlike the Helms jibe, Kerry's was a one-day...

We wish this Presidential election had nothing at all to do with Vietnam. There were good people who served and good people who didn't, good people who supported the war and good people who protested it. What happened really shouldn't be an issue more than 30 years later unless you lie about it. So why do the Democrats keep bringing Vietnam up, and to their own detriment? John Kerry, for starters, has made his four-month service in that country the centerpiece of his campaign. But just last week his staff was forced to admit the Senator had been inaccurate, to...

It's tempting to compare Sen. John Edwards with former Vice President Dan Quayle. But that would be unfair -- to Dan Quayle. Sixteen years ago, a presidential candidate picked a 41-year-old senator from a medium sized state to be his vice presidential candidate. The media response was swift. "Try to imagine Dan Quayle as President of the United States," wrote columnist Anthony Lewis in The New York Times . "No one seriously argues that he is especially qualified by experience or character or talent to take over the presidency." Why is that, Mr. Lewis? "Sen. Quayle is-to put it more...

Within hours of George H.W. Bush selecting Dan Quale for VP, the media had a "deer in the headlights" picture on the front page of every newspaper and the Dems managed to paint this unknown as "stupid". The time is RIGHT NOW, TODAY, to establish who John Edwards is. He's a slick trial lawyer who made millions by taking it from you in higher medical insurance. And there are a few other attacks as well. Edwards could be the "future" of the Democratic party if Hillary! doesn't become the dominant player. The image of Edwards MUST be established TODAY! Or...

Anybody notice that Dan Quayle has started to raise his public profile? Do you think he's looking at '08? He does have a Bush connection, after all. Further, he LOOKS more statesman like these days.

Dem presidential candidate John Kerry lashed out at President Bush over self-deprecating jokes made at this year's Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner. But Kerry himself has had trouble with pushing the humor envelope. "Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle," Kerry joked in 1988. The Massachusetts Democrat then said, "There isn't any press here, is there?" END

Sen. John Kerry got to be the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination through a series of embarrassing verbal gaffes by his major opponent, Howard Dean. But Kerry has made his share of mistakes in the past. One that may come back to haunt him – particularly as he begins considering vice presidential candidates – is the one he told about Dan Quayle on Nov. 16, 1988. "Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle," he said. "There isn't any press here, is there?" After...

Can you imagine — can you imagine — if Quayle had said that his favorite New Testament book was Job? Can you imagine? Of course you can. For the past, oh, 15 years, I've had many occasions to say, "If Dan Quayle had said that . . ." I suppose that I, and other Quayle-defenders, will be saying it for the rest of our lives. We said it when Al Gore talked about a leopard changing its stripes, and when he interpreted E pluribus unum to mean "Out of one, many." We have had several occasions to say it during...

Some political failures just can’t seem to stay away from Washington. It’s like a magnet for power hungry fat cats. This is true for ex-democratic Vice-Presidents. Walter Mondale lost in 1984 and Gore lost in 2000. Why can’t they take the same road as Dan Quayle? At least Mr. Quayle was smart enough to know he didn’t have a chance. It’s apparent they couldn’t do their jobs as Vice-President, so why did they think that Americans could trust them as The President? Both failed attempts have led them to crawl back to the DNC for another chance. Although they were...

Bergen: Quayle Was Right About MurphyJul 11, 6:56 AM (ET)By The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Turns out actress Candice Bergen really did agree with Dan Quayle. Ten years ago, then-Vice President Quayle criticized Bergen's "Murphy Brown" TV character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'" "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless," Bergen said Tuesday. "But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did." In May, Quayle touted...

Former Vice President Dan Quayle says claims that he threatened to have a former New Zealand politician "liquidated" were "absolute utter nonsense," while the man who made the allegation has repeated them - and says he will provide evidence in due course. Left-wing former Prime Minister David Lange earlier this week told New Zealand TV that he was told Quayle, who was vice president under President George H.W. Bush made the threat during a meeting with the Australian cabinet in 1989. Lange said the threat had been made in the context of the massive pressure under which his government was...