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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 04:40 PM
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Why is Dan Quayle back on my teevee??
He was the original moran who couldn't spell so he does have a legacy. Is he teaching Rethugs how to make signs? That would explain some things.

I also think he is giving other lessons. Some of his bon mots:

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

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.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

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

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

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.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

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.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.


And the best for last:
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dan_quayle_4.html

The only things Quayle did differently than Palin were to actually take a breath, and try to make sentences. Beyond that, he was also a wonder to hear.

Palin/Quayle-2012
English as a 2nd language.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 04:41 PM
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1. Because with Palin, Joe the Plumber, and Beck on the tube,...
Danny boy doesn't feel so stupid anymore! They actually make him seem intelligent!

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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 04:49 PM
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3. You know, you're right. He is nowhere NEAR as stupid as this new crop of R superstars.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 07:32 PM
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12. And HOLY SHIT! Can you imagine even THINKING this possible in 1988?
Quayle's a certified dumbfuck but he's easily more intelligent than any of the FOX Opinion Channel regulars!

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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 04:43 PM
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2. "I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it." That had a Rovian stench.
That was a huge distraction over a television show, Murphy Brown.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 04:55 PM
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4. Because the old hussy had a baby out of WEDLOCK, doncha know!!
Wonder how Dan-O would reconcile that with Bristol P?

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 05:01 PM
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6. don't forget, bristol is "courageous" and not "making a lifestyle choice"
(note to dq, AGAIN, if you had ever watched the show, you would have known that the sperm donor (what you would call the father) RAN when he found out that murphy was pregnant. WHY do you keep overlooking that tiny little fact???)
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icnorth Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 04:59 PM
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5. Ah the rush of memories...
and the scariest sentence ever uttered during the Bush presidency. "Barbara, I don't feel well."
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bumblebee1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-20-09 01:12 AM
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23. Was this statement made before of after
GHWB threw up on the Japanese Prime Minister's lap at the dinner party?
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northernlights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 05:09 PM
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7. thank you for posting this
I was feeling kind of bad today about not having a tv. Dan Quayle is on? THANK THE GODS AND GODDESSES I LET MY TV GO BLANK!!!!!

Seriously, I started reading your list of quotes and thought you'd made them up. Then I started recognizing some of the little gems. WHOA!!!!! I'd forgotten what an embarrassing joke of a veep that moran was! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 05:25 PM
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9. I actually had forgotten just how bad he was too.
He let his statements out here and there so it was harder to see the totality of his idiocy. Taken as a group they are a monument to moranism. Palin says all of hers in a stream of unconscientiousness.
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DKRC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 05:23 PM
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8. Because they're scraping the bottom of the barrel
and there's ol' Dan.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 05:51 PM
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10. Odd about that. Today I happened to see an old UW-WI lecture series about the potato.
And now we know the rest of the story.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 05:52 PM
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11. He'll never be on my teevee for more than about 5 seconds.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 07:36 PM
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13. palin/quayle 2012
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 09:33 PM
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14. PNAC signatory
Too many others have been discredited, The Dick of Death is plotting his getaway to Paraguay, and everyone is sick of Bill Kristol's cockeyed prognostications. The corporate media loves them some neocons.
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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 09:33 PM
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15. Well, somebody's got to
put Biden's foot-in-mouth syndrome in its proper perspective
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 09:57 PM
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16. Because morans is all the GOP has left.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 10:17 PM
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17. Cuz you have it on the wrong channel
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 11:25 PM
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18. K&R
:kick:
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Boddingham Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 11:34 PM
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19. Because nobody has figured out how to spell potatoe yet.
;)
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 01:49 AM
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20. Because he's now one of the "wise old men" of the party.
Dan Quayle dispensing advice to President Obama.

Now ain't that a HOOT!!


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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 11:05 AM
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21. It's part of the pact we made with Satan to get HDTV. nt
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 12:06 PM
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22. Just another lousy rerun.
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