From: best@anasazi.com (Mike Best)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Extra! Dan is a Genius!
Keywords: masturbation
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:38:08 GMT
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA

In article <cortez.717592044@milton> cortez@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Warner) writes:
>best@anasazi.com (Mike Best) writes:
['twas written ...]
>>This is what I posted a short time ago, the attacks amount to name calling
>>(WOMP, Danny) and emotionalism.
>
>Oh my heart just bleeds. How horribly unfair to Dan to point out that he would
>never have gotten into law school were it not for his family. How horribly
>unfair to Dan to point out that he would never have avoided the draft if not
>for his family. How horribly unfair to Dan to point out that he would never
>have gotten a desk job in government if not for his family. How horribly unfair
>to Dan to point out he never would have gotten the necessary support within
>political circles to get elected to public office if not for his family.

This intellectual tirade has stunned me.  Let me just ask one question, if
this guy is so dumb then how did he defeat the veteran Birch Bayhe (sp?)
in Indiana?  Perhaps you would care to conclude that the people of Indiana
are dumb too (hey, they elected Birch Bayhe :))

>>I stated that a very respected member of
>>the academia, Richard Fenno, wrote a book about Quayle's freshman term as
>>senator in which he described a competent and effective politician.
>
>Honestly? Is this book available anywhere?
>Who exactly is Richard Fenno? And what exactly did he credit Quayle with
>being effective at?

Yes I am being honest.  Yes the book is available, if memory serves it is
called "The Making of A Senator".  Richard Fenno is a PoliSci prof at
the University of Rochester (his title may be "Distinguished Prof of ..."
but I'm not sure).  Anyway, he has a reputation among his peers for his
impartiality - seriously.  The book is about Quayle's freshman term as
a senator and it describes not only his accomplishments but his effectiveness
in the Senate specifically regarding a significant job training bill as well
as the Patriot missile.  It further mentions that his fellow senators respect
his abilities as a senator.  Well, to say anymore would be to ruin the book...

>Is the statistic I have read -- that there was only one bill Quayle
>sponsored to ever become law the entire time he was in Congress, and that
>a bill with bipartisan big-name support that passed both houses nearly
>unanimously -- not true?

I do not know the answer to this specific.

>>Contrast this type of argument with yours and you will see why I find most
>>of the critique of Quayle devoid of content (and why I consider Liberals
>>to base arguments on emotion).
>
>>Mike Best
>
>Ok, Mr. serious thinker. Explain the Burger King incident. Go on.

I do not know what you are referring to.  Let me add one more point (of 
course, you have no choice).  Bob Woodward stated on the Brinkley show
several Sunday's ago to a question regarding Quayle's treatment by the
media.  He (Woodward) responded by saying that Quayle has received a
bad rap from the media and that, should something happen to Bush, Quayle
_would_ be an effective president.

That from Bob Woodward?

Mike Best
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