Dan Quayle is back, in town at least. We meet for coffee at a Marriott in suburban Washington, after the former vice president chats with an aspiring young Republican fellow eager to be scooped up for an early role in Campaign 2000. It's early, but not that early.
Chits are what vice presidents collect and distribute.
But it remains to be seen what his message is. He could have made that case four years ago, when he opted out of the bidding, intimidated by Bob Dole's front-runnership. Ask Dole how well that strategy works. A Quayle comeback is hardly a startling notion for the Republican faithful. Richard Nixon had one in 1968, after losing bids for president in 1960 and governor of California in 1962.