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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
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.