# Quayle for President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 2, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125 "2015-05-02T23:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125/41 "2015-05-21T15:11:52Z")
I thought Quayle’s main function as VP was to be Bush’s anti-impeachment insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125/42 "2015-05-21T15:26:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Just before I took the Ohio bar exam in 1992, one of my bar-review instructors had been a law school classmate of Marilyn Quayle’s. He told my class (no idea if it’s true or not) that she had been pregnant, and had labor induced so that she could take the Indiana bar exam on time. It’s [true](http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-05/news/vw-2969_1_dan-quayle/2). To answer the OP: no. But I was delighted to read that she and Dan met while working on a draft of the Indiana death penalty statute. Romance just doesn’t get any better than that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125/43 "2015-05-21T16:07:54Z")
Even if she wanted to run, where’s her natural constituency? Right now, you’ve got Jeb Bush as the candidate of Big Business and the country club set, in the lead. Then there are about 20 candidates and possible candidates, all struggling to get 2 or 3% support. Who’s going to flock to Marilyn Quayle? Who’s going to give her money? What sector of Republican voters would she excite? ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125/44 "2015-05-21T16:25:46Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > He was great entertainment. I think he probably wasn’t as stupid as he seemed, but there seemed to be a missing connection between his brain and his mouth. I missed coming back for my victory lap :smack: I actually think of Biden as the example of the missing internal filter. Quayle’s issue seemed to be an inability to think quickly on his feet and express it clearly. You could usually see at least the hint of an idea…as the word salad poured out of his mouth. IMO the only downside to Bentsen using that line was he mildly showed up Dukakis at the same time. Not that it took a lot of personality to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125/45 "2015-05-21T19:01:55Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It’s [true](http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-05/news/vw-2969_1_dan-quayle/2)… Glad to have confirmation - thanks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quayle-for-president/719125.md?page=2)