This cannot be said enough. Quayle the posterboy for unqualified at least had a law degree and elected twice to US House and US Sentate. The last moron this inexperienced was from Texas and political background just as Gov. (He also at least managed a baseball team, but that is probably like being mayor of Wasilla).

What kind of moron lists PTA and beauty pageants on their resume or campaign website????? Who BRAGS because they left the country once to go to Kuwait and see some of them "arabs". Yeee-haw. Go shoot some more wolfs and bears. She is like a parody of crazy Bush. Like Bush minus the years of coke and drinking.


>> ^T-man:
Min. qualifications for VP --&gt; --------------<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sarah Palin --&gt; --------------

jwray, thank you for trying to shove facts down the gullets of these pigeons.

Look at it this way, Quayle is the standard bearer for underqualified. Quayle has a law degree and was elected twice to the US House and twice to the Senate before being tapped for VP.

Palin got 114,697 votes from Alaskans in 2006 general election. She beat out the incumbent Republican Gov in the primary because of his 19% approval rating (secong worse only to Bob Taft)

Prior to that she won the mayor race by getting like 600 Wasilla residents to vote for her.

That is the sum total of her political career. The whole thing is a phenomenal joke and almost an attempt by big oil to say, "you're our bitches, we can put this Palin lady in and you can't do anything about it". Record oil company profits, our military is burning money and lives in Iraq with no end in sight, and they aren't even building refineries. Big oil told McCain you have to pick this lady, you have to open up ANWAR, you have to allow us to put in gas pipelines on the northern slopes, you have to stay in Iraq and keep protecting the Saudi interests. Do it you lil bitch or we pull the plug on your economy and sell all the oil to China. (Oops, we already let China win all the contacts in Iraq)

There is a rumour that SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ASSHATS.

Does it matter who was pregnant ever? Who cares if her doctor told her she can fly home? Who cares if her daughter is/was knocked up. Who cares who stayed home from school for how long. They are all losing arguments.

SHE IS THE MOST UNDER-QUALIFIED PERSON EVER NOMINATED. period.

She is another "Brownie" or "Goodling" and a signal that cronyism and religious pedigree have already destroyed this country if we are at the point where this is the GOP VP pick.

For fucks sake, Dan Quayle has a law degree and was elected twice to the U.S. House of Representatives and twice to the goddamn Senate. She got 2nd place in a beauty pageant in a state where the total population was under 500,000. And the media has nothing else to say about her than her PTA leadership. I mean come on.

Fuck both of them, Dan Quayle FTW!

I think there is more to this pick than meets the eye. I suspect the plan is for her to be savaged by the press, and to bait people into making sexist remarks ^(like calling her a cunt, nice going jd) in order to paint the opposition as sexist and then play off voter outrage and sympathy.

It's early, but I think this might actually be a decent strategy. McCain certainly has nothing to lose.

I don't know much about her. Is she charismatic? Is she good with words? Does she have a chance in the debates against Biden? Is she Dan Quayle II: Electric Boogaloo?

Haven't you folks been keeping up with politics at all? Really.
I've got Edwards by 10%. And, Romney's a lock on the republican side.

^choggie,
Nobody can fix things and make them righteous for everyone
Nobody can provide reasonable health care for everyone
Nobody can stop the runaway freight of the Military Industrial Complex
Nobody can insure basic rights to all peoples
Nobody can repair the damage done for the last 60+ years by the Education system in the U.S.
Nobody can insure fairness in the corporate mechanism
Nobody, and I mean Nobody, can do a goddamn thing about the deficit....
So, guess who gets my vote????

Dan Quayle?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bush, iraq, reagan, quayle, popeye, terror' to 'bush, iraq, reagan, quayle, popeye, terror, roy, zimmerman' - edited by jwray

neat! but eric, you had a dan quayle moment when you were writing the tags ;-)

There are two problems with the spelling example - the card that was given to Quayle had potato spelled with an "e" and "potatoe" is a legitimate and valid spelling of the word.

Bush and Quayle... Has there ever been a worse ticket in the history of political systems on earth??
why quayle didn't resign after the potato incedent is beyond me... at least Clinton could spell blow job.

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A Quayle - GWB debate would be interesting - not sure who would win, but it would definitely be a race to the bottom.

It would probably depend on whether GWB was on the sauce that day or not.

More Quayle lunacy...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Quayle-The-Origonal-George-W-Bush

(FYI, in the first part he's talking about the holocaust.)

Here are some other Quayle classics...

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'"

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change."

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

"The future will be better tomorrow."

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

The YouTube uploader says it is from "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex." Woody Allen directed the movie which was released in 1971.


Netflix description:

Questions from Dr. David Reuben's once-controversial book of the same name are turned into seven silly Woody Allen-penned vignettes featuring Allen as a cowardly sperm, Gene Wilder as a man who falls head-over-hooves in love with a sheep named Daisy, John Carradine as a scientist who creates a 50-foot-tall breast, and Regis Philbin guessing the strange sexual habits of game-show contestants.


The cast also includes:

John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasserm Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave and Burt Reynolds


This needs one more channel:

*geek

Quayle had been comparing himself to Jack Kennedy on the campaign trail. So Bentsen had that line written up beforehand, just _hoping_ that Quayle would use the comparison in the only vice-presidential debate.