VP Reprise with McCain? Quayle Says He’s ‘Rested and Ready’
By Mo Larkey
Continental-Affiliated Press International
August 3, 2008
INDIANAPOLIS – At a press conference here today, former vice president Dan Quayle told reporters he’s “rested and ready” and prepared to “help Sen. McCain win the White House” in 2008.
The Indiana Republican, a former US senator and vice president in the administration of George H. W. Bush from 1988 to 1992, claimed that he had the “kind of wide-body life experiences” Mr. McCain needs in a vice president and would “be assetable” to the Republican candidate’s chances.
“I believe that I have been road-tested and trialed and I have found myself willing,” said Mr. Quayle, “and I could do for Sen. McCain what I did for President Bush’s father – put him over the top with the Republican Party baseline.”
“I’ve been there and done that,” continued the former vice president, “and I can do it all over again. I’m rested and ready and set to rip into this campaign like a tissue paper tiger.”
“Look at it this way,” Mr. Quayle summed up, “if we can deposit men on Mars, as we have been doing, we can get a Republican elected president this year, and I’m just the astronaut to help Sen. McCain win the White House.”
As he left the podium, Mr. Quayle mimicked dialing a phone and whispered, “Johnny, call me.”
Reached last night, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis had no comment on the former vice president’s offer.
Copyright 2008 Continental-Affiliated Press International
In case you haven’t noticed yet, this isn’t true — just cheap satire to get a laugh. (If it somehow turns out to be true, slap a baggy beret on my head and call me Nostradamus.)
Comment by RS Janes — August 4, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
Dan Quayle better think twice about running with McSlug, we all know what Cheney does when he get around quail! ;O)
Comment by kerry — August 5, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
Boom, boom, out goes the lights! Of course, Quayle’s lights have been out since he was born, so maybe he wouldn’t even notice a little ‘shotgun’ present from Deadeye Dick. “Another hole in my head? OH, BOY, fresh air!”
Comment by RS Janes — August 5, 2008 @ 6:56 pm