Quayle, another nine, is a little different. These politicians are intelligent nines, but their intelligence is interpersonal, intuitive and non-verbal. Dole had a hard time attacking Clinton because Clinton was all over the lot. He had so many ideas, so many positions that Dole could shoot down one or some, but Clinton had no priorities, so Dole couldn't focus his eightish wrath on any important one. Clinton had 300 skinny ones.
Nines specialize in being hard to attack.
From childhood they perfected the art of not getting caught in storms, of staying alive in a hostile or unstable environment. They emotionally and intellectually just hunker down and lie low. They often have a sweet quality about them with no hard edges. It smolders, but it doesn't explode very often. Rather it becomes passive aggressive - extremely hard to deal with.