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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So, I guess when all else fails use the Office staffers children
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 8:29AM EST (link)Nice new trick, what ever happened to Adopting some children instead of borrowing them for a mailer. That, funny to me.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Still better than the Silky Pony approach... [nt]
acat (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 8:50AM EST (link)——
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost”. –Tolkein
In other words, it's better to trot out kids you don't have than to hide the kids you do?
Next93 (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 9:05AM EST (link)N/T
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Bingo.
acat (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 9:22AM EST (link)Why borrow the office staff’s kids when you can just sue for shared custody?
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“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost”. –Tolkein
Well just pay the children oodells of money
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 11:02AM EST (link)and they might just give you custody of themselves. BTW, what happened to the dogs being the kids?
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
I won't pile on
partyof1 Wednesday, August 4th at 8:43AM EST (link)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.
Pam?
pittbull Thursday, August 5th at 12:22PM EST (link)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.
Pamela
partyof1 Thursday, August 5th at 1:40PM EST (link)I should have said.
Awesome!
reddogreport (Diary) Wednesday, August 11th at 11:59AM EST (link)I must admit, I support Pam Gorman, but the way Ben Quayle’s new commercial rips into Obama is pretty cool too.
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Oscar Madison?
michaelillions Wednesday, August 4th at 8:51AM EST (link)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
Guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree
Next93 (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 9:18AM EST (link)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”.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Well I'm sure that ole Dan Quayle is smarter than current VP
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 11:47AM EST (link)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.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Speaking of Biden, is this just a different form of plagiarism?
bk (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 12:27PM EST (link)He’s claiming someone else’s output as his own, correct?
Sort of except that Ben Quayle can give the kids
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 12:48PM EST (link)a $1mil a piece and call this a done deal. If the family agreed to it, it’ not a problem.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Unbelievable!
4life (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 9:29AM EST (link)Did he think no one would notice?
Truthfully?
stephaniet Wednesday, August 4th at 10:04AM EST (link)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.
“*They* say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I *prefer* the weapon you only have to fire *once*. That’s how Dad did it; that’s how America does it… and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”
In most blue states, photos with stranger's kids on your lap will get you investigated, not elected.
H (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 11:30AM EST (link)Just sayin’.
Well only if your not part of the system
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 4th at 11:41AM EST (link)by that you can do anything you want. Deep blue states are places where those one in the system can do what they want.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Dan Quayle increasing his profile
chihank Wednesday, August 4th at 12:13PM EST (link)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.
By all means, take as many digs as you want
hippiessmell Wednesday, August 4th at 2:08PM EST (link)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.
Leftism is just the latest incarnation of the decaying feudal system with its top-down paternalistic management of people’s lives–a system of having the “betters” take care of the dependent serfs, with the serfs surrendering their wealth, freedoms and choices.
Haven't any of you talked about raising your family
alamo294 Thursday, August 5th at 7:15AM EST (link)before you had kids? I’ve heard lots of people use that phrase. Maybe only in flyover country? Give the guy a break, huh?
Give him a break
geocon90293 Thursday, August 5th at 9:36AM EST (link)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 .
only agree somewhat
MF (Diary) Thursday, August 5th at 11:53AM EST (link)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.