Well, This Makes It Official
Hey, guess who is still alive? And talking?
Former Vice President Dan Quayle is calling for the GOP to unite behind Donald Trump, even as prominent Republicans on past presidential tickets distance themselves from the party nominee.
“The party has to unite around him,” Quayle told CNN’s Jamie Gangel in an interview airing Thursday, predicting nevertheless that “holdouts” would remain. “But by and large, I think the party will rally around him.”
Yes, because the major question of the year was, “But who will Dan Quayle support?”
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
Who woke him up? Last I heard he was napping on the rug in the Bush 41’s oval office.
1Thanks, Dan. Had I been looking for an example of less relevant than Romney or Palin, you would be it. But since I wasn’t looking, STFU.
Speaking of examples, redefining, and general snacilbupeR speech like collateral damage, compassionate conservative, and fiscal conservative, the loons of lexicon tricks are busily torturing “principle.” “Principled” snacilbupeR are holding fast to their conservative principles, while finding ways to support Donnie Drumpf. There’s a whiplash joke in there somewhere.
2One grossly unqualified GOP nominee endorses another. Yawn. Same with Palin.
3You say potatoe I say potato
4Hoosiers are embarrassed about Dan Quayle the same way Texans are embarrassed about David Dewhurst (remember him?). One of the less-talented members of the Pulliam publishing family that owned the Indianapolis Star and Arizona Republic. The family quietly concluded that his genes were somehow mutated and Eugene Pulliam’s business sense failed to be passed down, and that Quayle would only drive their buggy into the ditch. So he then went elsewhere to polish his skills as a master of disaster. After failing grade-school spelling and doing his part to ensure Bush 41’s reelection defeat, he eventually wound up at Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that Mercedes Benz suckered big time when it unloaded Chrysler, only for Cerberus to see its money go poof two years later when Chrysler sank into bankruptcy. Quayle has reached a stage in life where he’s less likely to entertain us with new acts of stupidity. Pity.
5Paul, you took the vegetable right out of my mouth.
6Why, in God’s name are they even giving this guy airtime?
For the same reason that the Tundra Twat is rousing up; anything to distract the easily distracted.
7Oh! Actually that guy is S.A.D.!
8@UmptyDump
I can’t share your pith about Daimler and Chrysler. From my POV Daimler committed an economic war act aimed at destroying a major American motor car manufacturer. The merger of equals was a sham. Daimler systematically stopped producing Chrysler motor car models which were selling and replaced them with a sad station wagon and Frankenstein sedans built from front ends of one Mercedes model and the rear of another. The goal was to make Chrysler dependent on Daimler long term. There is no Chrysler left. Oddest part of this was the sale to Fiat, a company never very successful in the US and for the most part uninterested in the American market.
9Best description I ever saw of Quayle was, “He’s like Robert Redford’s [mentally challenged] kid brother whom they kept in the attic and he got out somehow.”
10Fame is 15 minutes. Infamy is forever.
11Maryelle-like they said in the movie “SuperTroopers” desperation is a stinky cologne. These are desperate times for despicably desperate peoples.
12What? Dumbo Dan is still alive?
13For once, I agree with Dan Quayle.
14Yes, please. Republicans PLEASE unite behind Trump. Because I want a blue Congress and blue governors and blue mayors and blue dog catchers. So please, please, do as your party demands – uh – requests. Unite behind your presidential candidate. You will do the nation a world of good if you do.
Dan Quayle wasn’t even relevant when he was VP. He surely is NOT now.
15@micr – Respectfully, the business strategy of Mercedes Benz with respect for Chrysler cars and the investment blunder by Cerberus are two separate and distinct matters that happened at separate times. DaimlerChrysler was born as a “merger of unequals” in 1998 and was euthanized in 2007 when Mercedes bailed. Cerberus plowed $7.4 billion into Chrysler in 2007, only to see the manufacturing arm become essentlially worthless by 2009. Cerberus surrendered its auto stock to the federal government and walked away from auto manufacturing. But Cerberus held on to Chrysler Financial, and by 2011, sold it and almost completely recouped its original investment in the whole fiasco.
16All I remember about Quayle is that he “corrected” the spelling of POTATO at a spelling bee, making it incorrect.
17Quayle on education: “A mind is a terrible thing to lose”.
18@UmptyDump
I meant no disrespect to your post. Please accept my apologies if I overstepped during my rant.
I agree that the Dr Z executing Chrysler and the subsequent investment by Cerberus are indeed :two separate and distinct matters that happened at separate times.”
19@Micr – Furthest thing from my mind, but I’ll make a wild guess that you don’t drive a Mercedes … or a Chrysler for that matter!
20@Umptydump
Never have owned a M-B. Owned several Chrysler products between model years 65 and 2000.
21Oh Doofus Dan! I thought he was dead or had slunk off to an Oregon or Idaho ranch. Do snacilbupeR really think his opinion is of – any – consequence? At all?
22Quayle had one moment of uncharacteristic honesty for a Republican: when asked why he’d joined the Indiana Air National Guard he admitted that it was because he didn’t want to go to Vietnam…and that puts him a solid 5 points ahead of George W. Bush, who never admitted the obvious fact that he joined the Texas Air National Guard for exactly the same reason. Both organizations were known at the time as safe refuges for rich entitled draft dodgers (TANG back then was stuffed with Texas politicians’ sons.) Quayle was, belatedly, an honest draft dodger. Bush never was, and deployed every trick in the book to hide the reality, including saying, in his first year of the Presidency, that he’d “been to war” and having teenage twin girls was harder.
No, I have not forgiven him.
23I’ll never forget David Letterman saying slowly and carefully into the camera, “Mister Vice President, Murphy Brown is a fictional character.”
24Wow. Quayle’s endorsement really, really makes me want to vote for Trump.
Now if Martin Shkreli would just endorse Trump it would be a done deal.
25Micr-ask god for one. Janis Joplin did.
26acapella
27https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qev-i9-VKlY
28Actually, the veggie used to be spelled that way several centuries ago, which is where Dan got his political ideas.
He’s incredibly ignorant. Remember his regret an not having studied Latin so he could speak the language in Latin America?
29@EPO
Thanks but I have a list of things G*d could buy me and a M-B ain’t in the top 20.
Loved Janis’ music. Wish she hadn’t loved Southern Comfort and heroin as much as she did.
30Since I flew once on Air Force 2 to Saudi Arabia with VP Qualye, people ask me “was he really that stupid?” He reminded me of the local chamber of commerce president, or the sales manager at a car dealership. Not dumb, but not qualified to be next in line for the presidency.
31By setting the bar so low, the republican party has cleared the way for a string of fools. And now Trump who clearly has the gravitas of a chimpanzee. (no offense intended to the chimps)
You can mention “gravitas” and “Trump” in the same sentence?
I do think it’s unfair to say chimps don’t have more gravitas than Trump. Within chimp culture, they seem less irritable, more sociable–they actually can show affection for one another. About the only really non-gravitas thing chimps do is scratch their junk. Trump is hyper-irritable, loses his cool all the time, seems to have no positive emotions, and hates at least 3/4 of his own species.
There isn’t really a good animal analog for Trump. I thought of squirrel for awhile…Loud meaningless chattering, bites when cornered, has a big floofy mass of hair that is shown off (albeit squirrels have more attractive tails than the hair on Trump’s head)…jump around crazily from one thing to another, pee on anything “below” them, make messes if they get inside…but then squirrels are also graceful and they plant trees (as acorns or other nuts.) Trump looks like he’s molded carelessly of plastic, moves stiffly, and undoubtedly could not zip up and down trees. Nor does he plant them.
For temperament he seems more like a bull elephant in musth, but elephants aren’t like that all the time. Unless they’re GOP symbols.
32From the writings of the late Peter Hathaway Capstick-former professional hunter and elephant control officer in several countries in Africa- elephants are much rowdier and riotous when drunk on fermented marula fruit. An elephant’s digestive process takes so long the fruit ferments real good and no one is crazy enough to ask an elephant to do a roadside sobriety check.
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