I knew Dan Quayle... and you're a chip off the old block

[n2doc]

By Michelle Price in Phoenix

Ben Quayle, son of the error-prone former US vice-president, is a gaffe off the old block. Running for office in Arizona, he is committing blunders of his own which maintain the fine family tradition of embarrassing all and sundry.

Campaigning as a family-values conservative, Ben Quayle, 33, first denied then admitted that he wrote for a sex-steeped Arizona website, now known as TheDirty.com. The website's founder, Nik Richie, said Quayle used the alias "Brock Landers", the name of a character from the 1997 movie Boogie Nights about porn stars, and wrote lines such as: "My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot." Richie said Quayle "was the guy that, you know, people would send pictures to of hot chicks, and he would put together who he thought was the hottest girl and why". He boasted of his physique, comparing it to one of Michelangelo's works, and his sexual appeal. Quayle said he couldn't recall what his posts involved or when he made them.

This came out just days after Quayle sent out a campaign leaflet showing his wife and two young girls, with the words: "We are going to raise our family here." He and his wife have no children – the girls were his nieces. The clangers revive memories of his dad's missteps as vice president in President George H W Bush's administration: a classroom stumble in spelling the word "potato", musings on how terrible it is "not to have a mind", and declaring that "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child".

The senior Quayle's political career ended with the Republican ticket's loss in 1992 to Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Yet the famous name helped Ben jump to the front of the pack of 10 candidates vying for his party's nomination in a Republican-leaning district. The former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and George H W Bush and his wife, Barbara, have either given money or raised it for him.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/i-knew-dan-quayle-and-youre-a-chip-off-the-old-block-2052892.html

[Botany]

1. Douche Nozzle

Ben Quayle aka Brock Landers ... 7/27/07 – Brock’s Corner: Lake Pleasant
Anyway, after concluding that sipping mint juleps dockside had been replaced with taking body shots off of scantily clad ladies, it was time to lose my yachting attire–and that’s when things started to get interesting.

As I slowly and seductively removed my sexy outfit, a palpable tension was felt across the lake. When I took off my shirt, and the ladies caught a glimpse of my chiseled physique, I was summarily mobbed like I was a member of Menudo during the Puerto Rican day parade in NYC. Not that this is anything new.

[dflprincess]

4. That picture reminds me of what David Letterman said about Bush

"I looked in his eyes and thought 'My God, you could hold dances in there.'"

[Gman]

8. Douche nozzle!

I like that!

[GoCubsGo]

2. Shouldn't that read "chip off the old blockhead"?

[northernlights]

3. potato doesn't roll far from the patch, does it?

or is that potatoe? whatever...:shrug:

So Dan, is your children learning?

[Hubert Flottz]

5. I think most of the people who vote repub spell it...

TATER

[UTUSN]

6. K&R #8 for best bwah-hah thread title!1 n/t

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. Ben Quayle and some buddies went on spring break vacation together.

The first day they went down to the beach and several beautiful girls flirted with Ben's buddies but totally ignored Ben. When Ben and his buddies went back to their room Ben asked them how they got all that attention from the girls. They told Ben that before they went to the beach they slipped a large potato into their swim trunks and that Ben should do the same.

The next day the guys went to the beach and once again several beautiful girls flirted with Ben's buddies but this time they not only ignored Ben, but actually tried to get as far away from him as possible. When Ben complained to his buddies they explained that he was supposed to put the potato in the front of his trunks, not the back.

Poor Ben, he is as dumb as Dan Quayle and has his own potato problems. But he is filthy rich.