He often prayed with potential supporters you can't have that kind of a person around the Oval Office. You start allowing prayer in the Oval Office and the next thing you know, cigars will be banned there. Mr. Quayle was also a victim of our unwillingness to pass judgment, today's mortal sin. Bill Clinton is still around because we don't do infidelity, morality and scarlet letters anymore. To fill the standards void, we have seized upon amoral substitutes such as p.c.
Spelling is safe judgment and ridicule territory.
Mr. Quayle withdrew because he is a realist when it comes to money and obstacles. But, in a race devoid of positions, ideas, and character, it is only fitting that a candidate with them is gone. Schoolyard bullies who have taunted foolishly and unjustly are always diminished when the victim departs. Too late to remedy the injustice, the bullies disperse as though blameless, unwilling to face what their silliness hath wrought. JWR contributor Marianne M. Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies at Arizona State University.