Palin-Quayle analogy unfair -- to Quayle

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October 12. 2008
OPINION
By JACK COLWELL

... she has become a national joke, the best thing to happen in decades for "Saturday Night Live" ratings.

Quayle may have absentmindedly followed an erroneous spelling bee card, silly but not indicating any lack of preparedness to have his finger on the world's most dangerous button during a dispute with Russia. But he never cited being in a state where some could see Russia as his credentials on foreign policy.

Quayle never stumbled and bumbled in answering simple questions about court decisions or newspapers he reads.

Quayle left himself open in the vice presidential debate to that famous line that he was "no Jack Kennedy." He also answered the questions, didn't keep repeating rehearsed lines and didn't cheapen responses with winks, claims to be Dan Six-Pack or "you betcha" lingo ...

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/Opinion/810120506/1065/Opinion

A rather conservative column, dedicated to protecting Quayle's reputation