So why bring up a deservedly forgotten Dan Quayle? Well, for one thing, a note to the Republican party--STOP NOMINATING IDIOTS. I also would like to apologize for my undergraduate alma mater for producing him, but he was a SERIOUS legacy (my daughter does her college radio broadcasts from a building named for Quayle's grandfather)
The major point COULD APPEAR TO BE that both are/were grossly unqualified for their jobs. THAT is indisputable. However, the difference is, by all accounts, and I heard people who knew him--Dan Quayle was a nice guy. Your "gentleman's 'C' student" who should have done what many of us did--manage a shoe store, own an insurance agency, be your average Joe who coaches Little League.
And then there is Drinky McTreason. We know he is an idiot, but he is an idiot where we CANNOT ACCOUNT for large chunks of his life. Unlike J. Danforth Quayle above, he is NOT a nice guy--"A very pissed-off George W Bush storms over to Wall Street Journal executive Washington editor Al Hunt at a Dallas restaurant, where Hunt is eating with his wife and their 4-year-old son. Bush shouts: "You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this."
And people voted for him.....
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