From: best@anasazi.com (Mike Best)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Our limited knowledge of Dannikins...
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:34:17 GMT
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA

In article <9209121825.AA23603@MIT.EDU> dks@MIT.EDU (dks) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep11.145259.11010@anasazi.com>,
>best@anasazi.com (Mike "Knows" Best) explains that
>we are -- get this -- underestimating Dannikins:
>> Putting aside the fact that your knowledge of Quayle is limited to
>> stand-up comics and television news bites,
>
>Whereas your knowledge of him is ... biblical?

Clever and yet inane, much like the rest of your counter-posting.

>Believe me, we are acquainted with Dannikins and he does not improve upon
>acquaintance.  The boy may impress you with his elegant profile, or his
>distinguished rhetoric, or his moral authority.  So be it.  Intellectually,
>he is a zero, a cipher, a mere nothingness.  In the immortal words of
>Bette Davis:
>
>           That man is so stupid it sits on him like a halo.

That was invective!  I underestimated you, you're really quite
emotional aren't you?

>I challenge you to give me one good reason to believe that he would be a
>better President than, say, you would.

Since you asked, here it is:

1.  Richard Fenno, a distinguished poli-sci professor at the University
    of Rochester, wrote a book called "The Making of a Senator" which
    is about Quayle.  Fenno has a reputation for impartiality and he
    wrote very favorably about Quayle.

    - He speaks of his effectiveness, examples a major job training
      bill and the patriot missle (which he may have saved).
      He was very effective as a freshman Senator.

    -  He tells of Quayle's reputation for open-mindedness and 
       freedom of thought.

    This book was reviewed in Presidential Studies Quarterly recently
    and you might try going to the library and reading this.  

2.  Quayle has surrounded himself with what is considered to be the
    the best staff in D.C. (perhaps something that a President might
    need to do).

3.  He defeated the powerful Birch Bayhe to gain his seat.  He is 
    evidently not quite as inept as you are with your facts eh?

Here's the one that's going to hurt, you'd better sit down :)

4.  Bob "Watergate" Woodward stated that Quayle is getting a bad rap
    and that if something should happen to Bush that Quayle ....

    WOULD BE EFFECTIVE.

    That from one of the radical left!

>> I would agree to some extent
>> that Quayle has made some incongruous/conflicting statements.
>
>Why, how perceptive of you.

See what I mean?  I quote page numbers, I reference the opinions of
respected people.  Your statements boarder on emotionalism.

>> Take, for example, Gore's book EITB.
>> [alleged paraphrase deleted]
>
>Either you haven't tried to read it yourself, or your comprehension skills
>are inadequate to the task, or you are a dissembling cynic.

I read it then, in spirit, I recycled it :)
 
>> I STILL can't get over the fact that you appear to be a Democrat/Statist
>> [...] and yet you are the namesake of the Brittan, John Locke, who is [...]
>> 
>> I'll try to get over it.
>
>Please, Mike, don't do us any favors.

I wasn't talking to you but judging by the voracity of your emotionalism
toward me I would say that I punched you right in the kisser.

Mike "Knows" Best 
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