Palin = Dan Quayle (with a ponytail)

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Sarah, meet Dan. Dan, meet Sarah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErtWEJ0WbfQ


:)

[David Zephyr]

1. Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle with a lobotomy.

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[Wednesdays]

2. Yeah, I thought I'd never see the day when

someone would come along and make both Quayle and the Chimp look intelligent. :shrug:

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3. making Quayle look intelligent ... read here ...

Sarah Quaylin

by Jonathan Chait

Actually, Dan Quayle is looking pretty good right now.

September 19, 2008

But, somewhere in the recesses of my mind, this admiring appraisal of the prospective veep's intellect struck a familiar chord. With a quick search, I discovered that, indeed, the same was said of Dan Quayle in 1988. Twenty years ago, The Washington Post reported, "Bush aides, who were getting their first in-depth exposure to Quayle, were impressed by his attention span, the quality of his questions and the facility with which he moved through the agenda."


Other parallels stood out as well. Conservatives received Quayle's selection rapturously. L. Brent Bozell pronounced himself "ecstatic," and Jerry Falwell called the surprise pick "a stroke of genius." After a media frenzy, Quayle's speech was well-received. The convention hall burst into cheers of "We want Dan!" NBC anchor Tom Brokaw said that Quayle executed "flawlessly," and CBS's Bruce Morton called it "a good speech."


Questions about Quayle's readiness remained, but he did his best to turn them into elite condescension toward small town America. Quayle, in his acceptance speech, spoke movingly about the small towns in Indiana where he had grown up, and later disparaged Dukakis for "sneer at common sense advice, Midwestern advice."


Today, Quayle is remembered as a disaster. But, during the campaign, his supporters believed that media skepticism of Quayle had rallied ordinary Americans to his side. Dukakis "looks down on his fellow Americans. He looks down on Bush and Dan Quayle as--in his word--'pathetic,' " wrote right-wing columnist Michael Novak. "Thus, the 'feeding frenzy' of the press in New Orleans stirred a national backlash. It united all the scorned of America as one." Conservatives are saying the same things about Palin.

http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=90e31ecd-60d8-4a84-aaf2-0d92e09bd9f3

[ogneopasno]

4. Sarah Palin = Madame Nhu.

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[FKA MNChimpH8R]

6. Scary but true

Evita Mooselini is dangerous.

And at least Dan Quayle graduated from law school and passed the bar. He was an ineffectual lightweight, but he wasn't dangerous.

[BlooInBloo]

5. And BEWBIES!!!!

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7. McCain's new banner

[Hepburn]

11. ....

LMAO.....:rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Kind of an insult to Quayle isn't it?

[KamaAina]

9. Randi (I believe) called her "Danielle Quayle"

:rofl:

[bobd0]

10. Separated at birth

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12. holy shirt!

[terrya]

13. She's much, much worse than Dan Quayle.

[foo_bar]

15. in what respect?

sorry. At least Quayle could be housebroken.

[terrya]

16. Sarah Palin is the dumbest politician I've ever seen.

Even eclipsing Dan Quayle. Which is a tremendous achievment.

[foo_bar]

17. it does establish Mencken's thesis in 1920, "the White House will be adorned by a downright moron"

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

on edit: must have subliminally noted BlooInBloo's sig line.

[npincus]

14. Worse.... Palin = Harriet Miers.