Ivory Towers

They [the Left] have always been like this! Demeaning, pompous, ignoble, etc. Time after time they think they have the market on what should be considered "holy" ideology and smarts, but just like Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr, now Palin has "defied" Liberal expectations (which is nothing more than them thinking of themselves as elite).

An Oldie:

The truth is Biden and his gaffs make Quayle look like an armature! But don't expect the media to snowball Biden like they did Quayle.

A Right Angle in a Left Turn World

....How short the memory of the liberal left truly is.

Whenever some gaffe by George W. Bush occurred, the liberal media would have a field day, and compare it to the now famous gaffe in 1992 by then Vice President Dan Quayle.

Two presidents since Dan Quayle's Vice Presidency ended, and with two failed presidential bids now behind him, ex-Vice President Quayle still ranks as America’s favorite dumb politician because of what happened in Trenton on June 15, 1992 when he tried to spell p-o-t-a-t-o. I am sure you older folks remember that day well. It was the day that a Trenton sixth grader had to teach the Vice President of the United States that potato is not spelled with an "e" on the end. Granted, an "e" appears in the word in the plural form, but Dan Quayle was not given the benefit of the "I misspoke" excuse, or was the true events surrounding the gaffe even considered.

This infamous gaffe had such an impact that it essentially knocked Dan Quayle out of politics, and in his 1994 memoir, Quayle devotes a whole chapter to the events that surround the best known gaffe in history, and how it impacted his political career.

"It was a defining moment of the worst kind imaginable," Quayle wrote in the autobiography. "Politicians live and die by the symbolic sound bite."

A Washington Post article at the time of the gaffe suggested the Trenton spelling error got such wide media play because "it seemed like a perfect illustration of what people thought about Dan Quayle anyway."

A few months after the incident, Dan Quayle and President George Bush were voted out of office, to be replaced by Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore. To this day, the mere mention of Dan Quayle's name brings back memories of how he misspelled potato, making it one of the best known political jokes.

But why has Quayle's gaffe been fodder for American comedians ever since the incident, yet Barack Obama's repeated gaffes are ignored, or shrugged off as a simple verbal mistake? After all, I thought in politics that a political career is largely about image, and gaffes like Obama's would be devastating to his candidacy if he was any other politician....