is having made fun of Dan Quayle. Like that's hard.
Oh well. RIP, Lloyd Bentsen.
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Actually, he didn't make fun of DQ at all. What he did was to call Dan on his presumptiousness. It was DQ who was so naive as to call up a resemblance to JFK. And Bentsen was right, of course. Mr. Potato(e) Head was no Jack Kennedy. Indeed, RIP.
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Originally posted by Don Charles: Actually, he didn't make fun of DQ at all. What he did was to call Dan on his presumptiousness. It was DQ who was so naive as to call up a resemblance to JFK. And Bentsen was right, of course. Mr. Potato(e) Head was no Jack Kennedy. Indeed, RIP.
I would think people would remember him for something more profound. He spent years and years in public service and he has been reduced to a sound bite.
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Well, the obituary in the NY Times mentioned the debate, but it certainly gave a full review of his career in public service. One senate colleague opined that Bentsen had been the best senator Texas had ever produced. (I may be living in Connecticut, but my Texas roots are deep.)
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Dan Quayle really never compared himself to Kennedy. Just said he was the same age, and just what is it about Kennedy that makes it blasphemy to compare oneself to him anyway?
Mr Bentsen's childish little retort had as much of an effect on the election as Carlton Fisk's game six homer in the '75 Series. In the end it meant nothing. Dan Qayle went to Number One Observatory Circle, and Lloyd went home.
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Originally posted by michaelsean: Dan Quayle really never compared himself to Kennedy. Just said he was the same age, and just what is it about Kennedy that makes it blasphemy to compare oneself to him anyway?
Mr Bentsen's childish little retort had as much of an effect on the election as Carlton Fisk's game six homer in the '75 Series. In the end it meant nothing. Dan Qayle went to Number One Observatory Circle, and Lloyd went home.
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As if he actually had anything to do with the winning. He rode Bush all the way. Look at what happened with the 2000 Republican party nomination.
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Originally posted by michaelsean: Mr Bentsen's childish little retort had as much of an effect on the election as Carlton Fisk's game six homer in the '75 Series. In the end it meant nothing. Dan Qayle went to Number One Observatory Circle, and Lloyd went home.
But ask anyone with a knowledge of politics who was the better civil servant and you'll get an almost unanimous answer.
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Bensten might have gone home...but Quayle is still Quayle. That's HIS curse.
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