# Was Dan Quayle worse than Dick Cheney? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 4, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811 "2007-02-04T19:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/21 "2007-02-05T21:45:45Z")
I’m surprised people are giving Quayle such an easy pass. Aren’t the members of this board supposed to be part of the liberal conspiracy? Quayle was the Conservative point man in the first Bush administration. If he had become President, he probably would have moved the country to the right. And he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Far from being a quiet and innocuous President, he might have been Dubya eight years early. (He would have even had his own chance to invade Baghdad.) ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/22 "2007-02-05T21:52:03Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Far from being a quiet and innocuous President, he might have been Dubya eight years early. (He would have even had his own chance to invade Baghdad.) [/QUOTE] I highly doubt it. He simply didn’t have that special blend of stupidity, confidence, and self-righteousness that Bush has. Not even close to the same vibe. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/23 "2007-02-05T22:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] 3. I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.. [/QUOTE] You do know that that quote is cut short and taken totally out of context. I’m fucking sick of seeing it repeated over and over. What he said was, “I love California. I practically grew up in Pheonix _and we visited there often_” Anyone who has lived in San Diego for long enough can tell you about the summertime influx of 'Zonies\*. The place is overrun with 'em. \*Folks from Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/24 "2007-02-05T22:55:05Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] No, Agnew resigned in the WH because of bribes he took while governor of MD. This crap happened fifteen years before I was born and I still know it. [/QUOTE] He was turned in by a guy who was paying a bribe to Agnew in the VP office in the white house. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/25 "2007-02-06T20:48:23Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Aren’t the members of this board supposed to be part of the liberal conspiracy? [/quote] I hope you’re not serious with that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/26 "2007-02-06T22:06:42Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] You do know that that quote is cut short and taken totally out of context. I’m fucking sick of seeing it repeated over and over. What he said was, “I love California. I practically grew up in Pheonix _and we visited there often_” Anyone who has lived in San Diego for long enough can tell you about the summertime influx of 'Zonies\*. The place is overrun with 'em. \*Folks from Arizona. [/QUOTE] Thank you. That’s what I get for trusting Barbara at Snopes. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/27 "2007-02-06T22:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Thank you. That’s what I get for trusting Barbara at Snopes. [/QUOTE] _Snopes_ is repeating that one? Wow. I’m going to email Barbara right now and set her straight. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/28 "2007-02-07T23:06:44Z")
“9. We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.” I’m also not sure what’s so dumb about this quote. We’re preparing for all possibilities. Some may occur. Some may not. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/29 "2007-02-07T23:33:30Z")
[QUOTE=Fiveyearlurker] “9. We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.” I’m also not sure what’s so dumb about this quote. We’re preparing for all possibilities. Some may occur. Some may not. [/QUOTE] It’s not the may or may not occur that’s a problem. It’s the being ready for something unforeseen. If you’re ready for it, then you’ve forseeen it. If you haven’t foreseen it, then you can’t be ready for it. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/30 "2007-02-08T01:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] It’s not the may or may not occur that’s a problem. It’s the being ready for something unforeseen. If you’re ready for it, then you’ve forseeen it. If you haven’t foreseen it, then you can’t be ready for it. [/QUOTE] Bollocks. I have emergency supplies in my home. If there is a blackout, or an earthquake, I should be prepared. I haven’t foreseen other issues, such as invasion by aliens, butI should be prepared for that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/31 "2007-02-08T09:58:34Z")
Well, y’see, you’ve got your unknown knowns, your known unknowns, and your unknown unknowns… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811/32 "2007-02-08T13:27:07Z")
[QUOTE=Fiveyearlurker] Bollocks. I have emergency supplies in my home. If there is a blackout, or an earthquake, I should be prepared. [/QUOTE] Yeah, great. And during your first retreat into your bunker, you discover that, by a nearly impossible quirk of fate, all your supplies have been mislabled. Those cans of beans are actually cans of pink paint. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-dan-quayle-worse-than-dick-cheney/390811.md?page=1)