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Quayle is far smarter than most people could understand. Because most people bought into the media's nonsense. One of my good friends from college-who went on to clerk for the USSC (Blackmun) and is now a law professor at a school in Chicago thought Quayle was stupid until she worked for some liberal dem senator and had to deal with Quayle on an almost daily basis
Its like the media portraying Gerald Ford as clumsy and inept when SI rated him the best athlete to ever be in the WH. Ford was an all american level football player who had top college grades. He was hired at Yale to coach football but asked the dean if he could attend law school. THe dean let him take a couple classes and when he earned top grades he was admitted.
I knew SS agents assigned to Ford's detail. They had to be college level tennis players and expert level skiers because Ford was a excellent tennis player and skier and wanted agents who could hang with him on the courts and the slopes
yet SNL and others made him out to be bumbling because if you put a camera on someone 40 hours a week you will find him stumbling or falling while skiing
Josie's thread gave me the idea for this one. It's a little funny, to me, when someone says Sarah Palin's dumb because of things she's said but Biden seems to get a complete pass on stupid **** he says all the time (and yes, I know, my partisan bias is showing).
So, who do you think is dumber?
Choices will be;
Sarah
Joe
Both are equally dumb
Neither are dumb
I think that should cover it. Adding poll now.
Liberals have an inferiority complex and they always attack those who are better than they are. Be it Ford, Quayle, Palin, etc. The Democrats are going to have a big problem of ever bashing Nixon again after Obama.
Very few Americans realise if it weren't for Quayle when he was in Congress, there would be no GPS today. It was Quayle who got the appropriations bill through Congress for the R&D and deployment of GPS. So any time anyone uses their GPS in their cars or on their cell phones, think of Dan Quayle.
From what I understand the reason G.H. Bush picked Quayle as his VP running mate was just not his expertise in high tech and high tech weapons platforms but his expertise in nuclear disarmament. Quail was no dummy, he had his expertise and the Democrats had no equal.
I will admit I voted Bush/Quayle in 1988 because to me Dukakis seemed like a dunce and I never trusted anyone from MASS on the political scene. Well, with the exception of JFK and Paul Tsongus. But if the Dems ticket had been reversed, Bensen/Dukakis with Loyd at the top, I would have voted for Bensen. Quayle always struck me as one of the better senators, so I will not say anything bad about him. Sometimes perceptions are about as far from the truth as Venus is from Mars.
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The subtlety of your exquisite feline sarkasm escaped me...
...for that I apologize...
Oh really? What could Obama possibly do to beat this?The Democrats are going to have a big problem of ever bashing Nixon again after Obama.
So it seems. But Buck, you'll have to pass judgement after you see the content. Until then, you've just got to take her word for it. You know the biggie, the ACA, doesn't seem to be holding up all that well. I hate it when that happens.Partisan hackery will never make the first female speaker of the house seem stupid. She passed more legislation through her tenure than any man has in that office.
Your bias here tells a lot more about you than Nancy.
So it seems. But Buck, you'll have to pass judgement after you see the content. Until then, you've just got to take her word for it. You know the biggie, the ACA, doesn't seem to be holding up all that well. I hate it when that happens.
You're quite welcome. And thank you, as well. I love this.Once again your comments tell us a lot more about you than Pelosi or the ACA.
Thank you for being so transparent.
With this logic, you must think Paris Hilton is a genius.
Since we're looking specifically at national politicians, yes, these people are dumb. The SHOULD be the "best of the best" so to speak considering we're talking about maybe 10k people out of a nation of 350,000k. When they fail to measure up they get laughed at and rightly so.Both of those men had far higher IQs than 90% of the people on this board
especially anyone who actually believes a guy who graduated from Yale Law school is dumb
You are not alone ... McCain and Shmidt didn't like her either.Never did like her as a selection for vp.
I also voted for Bush/Quayle in 88 but I didn't vote for G.H. Bush during the Republican Presidential primaries. In fact the last Republican I voted for in a Presidential primary who won the Republican nomination was Reagan in 1980 and 84.
I was never a fan of G.H. Bush or G.W. Bush. But I would say no other President could have pulled off the First Persian Gulf War like G.H. Bush did. He was highly qualified to be POTUS in 1988. He's probably the only person in America who could have organised a multinational coalition during the First Gulf War. In reality I believe just the USA and the UK could have fought that war with the same results. Every other nation involved was just extra baggage.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but back in 1988 America was doing pretty good. By 1988 you could see the light at the end of the tunnel and we were about to win the Cold War. I know I was doing pretty good, by 1988 I was making money in the six figures.
But what I observed back in 1988, that then President Ronald Reagan wouldn't endorse G.H. Bush until after Bush won the Republican nomination. Then on that night when Bush excepted the nomination he told the American people "you don't change horses in the middle of the stream." It sold and he picked up the Reagan Democrats vote.
I'm not sure, but I think Reagan like me wasn't a big fan of G.H. Bush. I still haven't figured out if G.H. Bush was a moderate Republican or a neoconservative ? I know Reagan surrounded himself with many former liberal Democrats who came under the GOP tent as neoconservatives.
The Dukakis tank scene sure back fired.
One thing about Sarah Palin and her husband, they were able to afford to be able to raise five children. I question someones intelligence when they have more children than they can afford to raise and have to become dependent on government to help them to pay for raising their children. That's a clear sign of being dumb.
Liberals have an inferiority complex and they always attack those who are better than they are. Be it Ford, Quayle, Palin, etc. The Democrats are going to have a big problem of ever bashing Nixon again after Obama.
Very few Americans realise if it weren't for Quayle when he was in Congress, there would be no GPS today. It was Quayle who got the appropriations bill through Congress for the R&D and deployment of GPS. So any time anyone uses their GPS in their cars or on their cell phones, think of Dan Quayle.
From what I understand the reason G.H. Bush picked Quayle as his VP running mate was just not his expertise in high tech and high tech weapons platforms but his expertise in nuclear disarmament. Quail was no dummy, he had his expertise and the Democrats had no equal.
I like Clarence Thomas!its like dems who call Clarence Thomas (who graduated in the top half of his Yale law class-a bit better than slick willie did) stupid yet they lionize Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was a good HS student who graduated in the top third of his class and top of the far weaker howard Law school. But academically CT was the more accomplished man
its also funny how dems whine about the wealthy yet so many dem icons got to where they were purely on family power. Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are two obvious icons of the dem party. Both of them were academic bench sitters with Kennedy having been suspended by harvard for cheating and little mafia princess pelosi going to a fourth rate finishing school for intellectually dim catholic girls
I like Clarence Thomas!But I liked Thurgood Marshall, too.
I've always liked Sarah and think she has an incredible amount of moral courage....exactly what's lacking in most politicians. Most people wouldn't admit that even if they felt the same way, it's just not worth having some moron attack you. But when there was a shot that Sarah may run for President, as she was taking her east coast trip, her supporters lit up Politico and the trolls were flushed out. That was a nice day. Another good day was when all of the trolls were waiting with baited breath for Sarah's emails to be released. That was hilarious:2rofll:
Based on that logic, would that not actually make Biden the smarter one? I mean, would you not consider it smarter, if he went for the party with the absolute sheer numbers in that department?
Both had impressive resumes. Both were chosen because they were black. in both cases the dems made that choice
CT was picked by Reagan.
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