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By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 4th, 2010 at 07:00 AM  | 

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I hate to take a dig at Ben Quayle, running against Pamela Gorman in Arizona’s 3rd and also son of the former Vice President, but this is just too funny.

Quayle sent out a mail piece of him holding one young child with another in a seat. The caption under it reads, in part, “Tiffany and I live in this district and we are going to raise our family here.”

The implication is clear — these are his two girls and he’s going to raise them in Arizona’s 3rd.

There is just one problem.

Ben Quayle does not have any children. If you flip the mail piece over, you’ll see that Ben lives in Phoenix with his wife and dog.

I see this frequently from young candidates. I can’t believe mail designers still pull this trick. It is silly.

You can see the mail piece for yourself right here.

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  • Richard Mullins

    Nice new trick, what ever happened to Adopting some children instead of borrowing them for a mailer. That, funny to me.

  • partyof1

    by calling attention to this article: Does Ben Quayle Deserve to be a “Top-Tier” Candidate in Congressional Primary?.

    Or by citing Pam Gorman’s hilarious assessment of Quayle’s candidacy:

    “There’s 10 people in this race, and there’s nine of us that may not agree on anything, but we all agree that it is completely offensive that Dan Quayle is trying to buy his little a boy a seat in Congress,”

    But I will say that I love Pam Gorman’s YouTube ad.

    Not to mention her conservative credentials. Go Pam go.

  • acat
  • michaelillions

    After reading this, I can not help but compare it to the Odd Couple episode where Oscar is running for Councilman. Felix, serving as his campaign manager, witnesses the opponent and his “Partridge Family” like wife and children and runs out and brings back an Asian woman, and children from assorted ethnic backgrounds to pose as Oscar’s family. LOL

  • Next93

    N/T

  • Next93

    I worked for NASA back when Dan Quayle was VP. Traditionally, the VP is the president’s liason with the agency (this dates back to LBJ days). At that time, the agency was still struggling to fulfill president Regan’s directive to build Space Station Freedom (actually, at that point they were trying to figure out how to get congress to kill the program so that they wouldn’t have to admit that they no longer had that level of technical capability.) Anyway, I heard a lot of first- and second-hand stories about people trying to explain technical concepts to Quayle in the high-level presentations.

    Now, I take a back seat to no one in my beleif that the news media shapes stories to fit the narrative, but from what I heard, I’m fairly certain that they really didn’t have much of a stretch to paint Dan as an idiot. He might not have been the drooling moron that he came across as, but I’d hate to see him on “Are you smarter than a fifth-grader”.

  • acat

    Why borrow the office staff’s kids when you can just sue for shared custody?

    Mew

  • 4life

    Did he think no one would notice?

  • stephaniet

    He probably did. Nobody reads the fine print, after all. To me, this smacks of the same politics that are involved when candidates run around kissing voters’ babies.

  • Richard Mullins

    and they might just give you custody of themselves. BTW, what happened to the dogs being the kids?

  • Read Chesterton

    Just sayin’.

  • Richard Mullins

    by that you can do anything you want. Deep blue states are places where those one in the system can do what they want.

  • Richard Mullins

    so that should to a lot of him. Dan never seemed to smart but then again, sometimes the POTUS needs to have an idiot around they call for the dumbest person they can find(there is exeception to the rule but that’s normal they way it goes). I wonder if stupid rubbed off on Dan Quayle’s children. If so, it might be better to have Gorman for AZ-03.

  • chihank

    Lately Dan Quayle has been appearing on the various Fox News shows. He is doing this to rally former donors to help his son win the AZ House seat and help Lamontagne win the NH Senate primary. Lamontagne was Quayle’s go to guy in NH in 1996. Thus Quayle is returning the favor.

    Last year on Fox Business, Quayle feared the Tea Party movement could turn into another Ross Perot movement and sugguested the GOP appeal to Tea Partier to prevent a 3rd party split.

  • bk

    He’s claiming someone else’s output as his own, correct?

  • Richard Mullins

    a $1mil a piece and call this a done deal. If the family agreed to it, it’ not a problem.

  • hippiessmell

    Lord knows he needs to be taken down somehow, the dude is in the lead right now. Which completely offends me as a Republican living in the district.

  • alamo294

    before you had kids? I’ve heard lots of people use that phrase. Maybe only in flyover country? Give the guy a break, huh?

  • geocon90293

    I agree with Alamo294 . Give the guy a break . Let him run on his actual merits instead of nit-picking irrelevant and probably innocent bloopers .

  • MF

    Quayle was stupid for taking the picture. If he had posed with his wife and dog, and joined by (clearly) another family, saying something like he was looking forward to starting a family some day, that might have been OK. The complaint is not with the message he’s trying to say, it’s with how he went about getting it across.

    I agree that we should really focus more on what he’s saying than how he said it. How he said it is poor, and it is a mark against him, but not a big one.

    The bigger point is that Gorman is an outstanding candidate, and deserves our backing. Frankly, I haven’t read anything about Quayle to know whether he’s any good on the issues.

  • pittbull

    Love the tommy gun, but it is not as efficient as a semi-auto long arm.
    I want a M1-A1 (that’s supposed to be funny so please laugh).
    I’ve always wanted an M-14 carbine.

  • partyof1

    I should have said.

  • http://www.reddogreport.com reddogreport

    I must admit, I support Pam Gorman, but the way Ben Quayle’s new commercial rips into Obama is pretty cool too.

    http://reddogreport.com/2010/08/barack-obama-is-the-worst-president-in-history/