Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Lloyd Bentsen Dies

"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy!"

I wonder what ran through Dan Quayle's mind when he heard today.
Which reminds me:
Q: What goes thru a bug's mind when it hits your windshield?
A: Its feet!

And come to think of it, doesn't Dubya kinda make Quayle seem - how you say? - "cerebral"?


1 comment:

Naahm Deplume said...

Selective memory on Lloyd. Like any local pol, he had his share of skeletons. Agree with you on cerebral -- I always thought Dan did not get the props for his intellect, which was always overshadowed by his malaprops.

As for the Kennedy episode, Dan made a classic mistake that any MassPol knows not to make, and that is to invoke the name of a DK, especially when running against a live one. I saw this again and again, and the guys in the smoke-filled back room will tell you that the Kennedy or Dem always has a riposte if a DK comes up. Big hit with the voters for some reason. Could never figure out why (but that might be my 10 years of college getting in the way).