Twenty years ago, George Herbert Walker Bush picked as his running mate a young pup from Indiana named J. Danforth Quayle, and the liberal media (why don't you guys just admit it already?) couldn't have been happier. Even die-hard Republicans had to groan whenever this boob opened his mouth. He called the people of American Samoa "happy campers," he attacked a fictional TV personality, Murphy Brown, as being a bad role model (he was right about that one), and who could forget Lloyd Benson's famous "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" stab? The media loved to beat up on this guy, and it was hard to defend him. Well, guess what? He's back, and he's apparently climbed inside Joe Biden's mouth! At a campaign event in Columbia, MO, Joe Biden actually asks wheelchair-bound State Senator Chuck Graham to stand up and be recognized. "Stand up, Chuck," he said, "let 'em see ya!" you can see the blunder here: http://rightvoices.com/2008/09/09/another-biden-blunderstand-up-chuck-and-let-em-see-you/
Fortunately for him, Joe Biden is a liberal Democrat, or he would've been dowsed in tar, covered in feathers, and then set on fire. Instead, the media hailed him as a master of the "quick recovery." Biden again channeled the Spirit of Quayle in Nashua, NH, while talking about how pleased he was at being picked by Obama as the Democrat running mate: "Make no mistake about this...Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me." Say what? Then why are you running, Joe? You can find that gaffe right here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/biden-hillary-a.html
Plus, in an attempt to fool the American people into thinking that he and Obama are Robin Hoods, he let us all know that paying higher taxes is true patriotism! When trying to recover from this Quayle-ism, he said, “John McCain's making fun of the fact that I said paying taxes is patriotic. What I said was when a woman asked me, what do I tell people making over $250,000 a year that their taxes are going to go back to where they were with Reagan, which is a lot lower - lower than they were at Reagan, what do I tell them? I said tell them it's time to be patriotic.” In other words, "Yup, that's what I said! That one can be found, among other places, here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/biden-defends-c.html
Welcome back, Dan Quayle, we missed you. Of course, now that you're speaking from the mouth of a liberal, we'll never hear about any of it.
