Raised Right
As a native Hoosier, the Quayle family has a special place in my heart. The same way that red meat has a special place in my colon.
From what I've found, it's tough to determine exactly what ol' Ben Quayle has been doing for a living up till now. There's been some sweet financial industry gigs, and something involving a site called "TheDirty.com," which apparently involved scantily clad women, a porn pseudonym, and more scantily clad women. All that sounds fine, and now that he's to be a super-serious congressman candidate guy, I'll take his gig instead. If that's cool.
It's hard to even know what's going on with that campaign. Is it a birthday present from a generous relative? A vanity piece, like Glamour Shots for the ultra-wealthy? A nationwide fever dream? Whatever it is, it is a Beautiful Thing To Behold, and it should be treasured. You don't get to see a young douchebag flame out often--not this hard, not this fast. Let's enjoy the weirdness till November.
Great job of a spoof video.
And Andy is right about Dear Dan "Mr. Potatoe Head"
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
...right?
Ben QUAYLE??? You have to be kidding me? I didn't think Dan was smart enough to reproduce. Just the fact he has spawn running around is scary enough.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
I was constipated before I saw his campaign ad ... Thanks Ben You get the same reaction from me that your father did... The runs
Another frustrated politician's son trying to make it in Washington..
You'd think America would have had enough after GWbush2nd...but no..
Daddy Qualye's only claim to fame was not knowing how to spell potato (or was it potatoe)
like luke russert is some credible journalist who inherited 'that special something' from his dad, the late shill for the elite.
Some stuff you can't make up!
You just forgot to do the little duck and shift that he makes at 0:18.
He appears to have all the personality of his father, which means he has none.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
he pretends to take himself seriously
Some stuff you can't make up!
Many people remember the months of mockery when V.P. Dan Quayle criticized a fictional TV character for "having a child out of wedlock".
But few realize that THAT was the birth of the "Family Values" plank in the GOP platform.
That's right, the GOP's most prized moral issue was born of a national joke.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
murphy brown's love child?
Some stuff you can't make up!
Most of today's "late" boomers grew up watching TV. Most of us watched "All in the Family" and "M*A*S*H" and laughed at the vapid narrowness of Archie Bunker and Frank Burns. The Apprenticed Wingnuts watched, and saw their persecuted role-models struggling for vindication that just never came.
Interesting that you said that. I hear wingnuts defending the positions of "Archie Bunker" all the time, not old enough to realize he and his positions were the subject of ridicule and humor.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
These wingnuts are vicious and destructive
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Suess
you betcha!!!!
:<|)
Some stuff you can't make up!
..in a sick sort of way, of course.
I know it's hard to parody a parody.
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Some stuff you can't make up!
"What the heck's happened to America?...." Pssst! It was 8 years of Bush/Cheney that @#%!!!ed everything up Dan Jr. You know that. you spoiled little rich snob.
It always amuses and frustrates me in equal measure when people start acting like "our country" was suddenly whipped away from them and totally changed since Obama's inauguration. They want their country back... from what? It hasn't gone anywhere! When pressed, I never, ever, ever get a straight answer of what has actually changed in the country in terms of policy or standard of living or anything, just constant repetition of the nonsense that "it's all gone socialist!".
Similarly, it is amusing and frustrating to see Ben Quayle insist that he was Raised Right, inferring in an incredibly smarmy, dismissive manner that anyone who disagrees with him was Raised Wrong. Ugh. I'd laugh a lot more if it weren't for the fact that such empty phrases actually seem to matter more than genuine policy or results.
It's not "their" country it's "our" country. We take turns running it. The last time we voted on who gets to drive the bus, Obama won by 10 million votes and an electoral landslide. It's time for them to STFU and deal with it.
Let's see how far to the right they go before they fall off of the edge of this flat world.
In 2000 when out of the blue our Supreme Courtesans desided they had the power to overturn an election and pick their own winner.-And you know something? It never did come back.
Just so you know, the idea that red meat "sticks" in your colon is a debunked urban myth pushed by charlatans.
red meat just gives you cancer.
Damn it Andy! I almost did a spit take with my coffee onto my laptop.
for the best laugh of the day....
although it is early...
Tough guy frat boy. LOL. Stupid as a box of rocks, just like dear old dad, looks like a horse, just like mom.
Damn it, Andy! You stole my spiel....
Dan Quayle? Dumbest VP in U.S. History.
Ben Quayle? Chip off the old block!
Ben Quayle is the... stupidest... person... in... history...
Wow, that's the creepiest video I've ever seen! Seriously, I'm going to have a hard time erasing his sociopathic expression from my memory. If they ever remake "Silence Of The Lambs" he should play Hannibal Lechter.
people watched that and said, "I'd vote for him"
We're doomed.
NOBODY 2012
Papa Potatoe, the bestest VP ever, was in the Ohio National Guard at the time of the Ohio State Massacre. Is that where he made his bones?
Of course, he was in favor of the Vietnam war, but, unfortunately, he obviously was forced to enter the guard rather than entering a service that would allow him to serve in the war that he supported so strongly. This, like how GWB was mysteriously excluded from participating in his beloved war.
It was probably the Dems that worked to disappoint and frustrate them in this manner.
Paul C
Who the Hell raised this ignorant, racist, moron then??
Sounds like the less-than-two-year private sector "career" of Chris Dudley...the Yale graduate and former NBA player running for governor as a Republican in Oregon.
Who was it again that also had less than two years of experience when running for higher executive office?
Oh, yeah.
Yawn.
Ben reminds me of a conversation awhile back with some conservative local business magnates/Chamber of Commerce types about how their 20-something kids were eschewing the business world and seeking jobs in government. Of course they're doing that. When wages have been flat-to-falling in private business (except for the executive aristocracy) and there are no more pensions in the private sphere, a government job carries a lot more appeal.
And relevant to my subject line, why is it that whenever I'm channel surfing and land on a CSPAN broadcast of a 20-something political forum, it's never the Young Democrats of Tomorrow, or something similar? This certainly defeats the theory that Obama is indoctrinating young people to create liberal Hitler Youth.
for Andy. Clearly, he gets it.
Oh yeah, Barack is the worst in history...for trying to fix what your buddies broke.
Stay home, you rich, spoiled asshat.
NOBODY 2012
that, of course, he and his family DON'T know because their financial position has shielded them from the reality of what is happening to working families. When your trust is worth millions and millions and you lose a couple of them, the rest of those millions will make your loss back for you.
The man is a tool, and not a very sharp tool, I might add.
ol' Ben Quayle has been doing for a living up till now."
Another good reason to restore tax rates for the wealthy to their previous levels. It'll help rich dweebs like Quayle develop some skills.
Just think of it as a character building program for spoiled rich kids.
Good for the nation and good for the children of the wealthy.
We have enough Paris Hiltons, Ben Quayles and G.W. Bushs running around, we don't need to be creating more.
are you kidding me? Andy Cobb is ADORABLE!
"I was raised right" Translation: I was born and raised white, rich, with a silver spoon in my mouth and politically well connected with an "I've got mine so f*ck you and yours" attitude.
Being raised right also meant being taught to say "im gong to kick the hell" of something. We'll just call that Baby Quayle's "judeo Christian values" on display. Even though Baby Quayle couldn't knock his way out of a wet paper sack with Tucker Carlson's help.
you still wouldn't have a complete adult man.
There's no more military draft to make men out of guys like these, that's why we need a character building program for rich kid dweebs.
Restoring the tax rates to their previous levels would help.
We need to do it for all the little Bens and Tuckers.
They would have more contact with and engage with the real world, it would do them good and help build character that they are currently lacking.
Not according to these pointy headed librul scholars but what do they know? About as much and those who answered the survey in the accompanying Daily News article. The Daily News, not exactly the Village Voice or New York Times either mind you.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010...
Baby Quayle, a typical wingnut conservative, thinks just saying it makes it so.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ww...
...to kick the hell out of something.
Ben Quayle needs to calm the fuck down in that commercial. Why is he all uppity and angry. He looked like some angry gibbon with a meth habit.
As Ben's daddy might say, the potatoe doesn't fall far from the potatoe tree.
another Greg "the missles are flying" Stillson clone, a la John Edwards.
that would make Ben a "tater tot", yeah?
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
doesn't fall far from the horse's ass does it?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Further proof that the turd does not fall far from the ass.
Whenever a Democratic president follows one of the truly worst presidents of all time by any standard...virtually without exception a Republican...the Republican Party always swings into action to characterize that incoming Democrat as "the worst president ever" in order to obscure the memory of what the country just suffered through.
They did that with Jimmy Carter (who followed the only U.S. president to ever resign in shame, "our long national nightmare", Richard Nixon) and now they're doing it with Barack Obama (who followed a Republican president whose abysmal record on the economy and foreign policy will be difficult if not impossible for ANY president to beat on the low side in the future).
Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter's job creation record turned out to be one of the greatest this country has ever known, his annual average unemployment rate was lower than that of both Republican administrations on EITHER side of his presidency and his Camp David Accord brokered a peace settlement between two blood feuding Middle Eastern nations that has not been broken for a single day since Carter brokered it more than 30 years ago.
Barack Obama has ALREADY created the net gained 600,000 private sector jobs George W. Bush and his Reaganomics policies took eight long years to net LOSE.
Notice the timeline on these grand pronouncements of which president is "the worst ever". The world began to characterize Nixon and GWB as "the worst" after they'd proven it over the course of 6-8 years.
By contrast, the Republican Party begins to characterize the incoming Democratic president as "the worst" within a year, BEFORE that president's first midterm election year.
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