Ben Quayle (yup, Son of Dan) wants to "Knock the Hell Out Of Washington"

WATCHOUT! Ben Quayle, Son of Dan Quale, may or may not be an authoritative authority on the dirty side of Scottsdale... but he's gonna knock the hell out of Washington! I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds like Serious Business.

UPDATE: Turns out he is in fact involved with the Dirty. Fun!

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And to think….that probably took multiple takes.
Trotsky

In all fairness, let me say this… I don’t think that just because Ben Quayle on the surface appears to be another boy-from-Brazil WASP cloned from the same vat as Bush Jr. and Bush Sr. that he *IS* them or that his life must necessarily follow that trajectory as if coded into his DNA.

Additionally, I don’t find myself overly concerned with his affiliation with a website that ogles or rates women in a boorish and immature fashion. Really, any young male has done that in some capacity and political affiliation does not factor into that type of behavior.

My comparison to the Bush family and their legacy is because the political cachet of the Quayle family is owed primarily to the patronage of the Bush network. So, their tactics for acquiring and securing power are germane. The overall mechanism of that network acts to suppress, marginalize, and even eliminate threats, not necessarily on the direct instruction of a Ben Quayle, but just as a protective measure to secure the greater integrity of the entire network. Ben Quayle’s skeletons, if he actually has any of note, will be automatically addressed by persons unknown to him just as a matter of course. He won’t have to place any phone calls or make any direct requests.

It is amusing to note that his initial foray into the political process is a misstep. Taking the “worst president ever” approach, seemingly clueless to Lloyd Bentsen’s famous “you’re no JFK” rejoinder against his father. However, Bush Jr. routinely made missteps, errors, displayed astonishing ignorance, but that is why minders are paid so well. Someone will clean up Ben Quayle’s poo poo and it will likely not slow down his ascent much, if at all.

He just needs to stand around, wave, take orders faithfully, and keep his jawline relatively flab free with regular visits to the tennis court to keep his candidacy on track.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Those are all links to books about Bush(s), not Quayle(s). I was asking about the quote provided @48. The Bush family cabal and associated shenanigans are well known to me and anyone else older than Ben Quayle who pays attention.
jonathan_v

He also denies being “Brock Landers” http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2010/08/11/ben.quayle.linked.to.sexy.site.KTVK?hpt=T2
yri

Dude! Wait… what?
Prufrock451

I can’t wait for him to knock the hell out of U.S. agricultural subsidies on the potatoe industry.

Also, I can’t wait for him to knock the hell out of people who don’t understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

And finally, I can’t wait for him to knock the hell out of those who would keep the human race from entering the solar system.

Of course, he probably plans on knocking the hell out of anyone who makes fun of him for being Dan Quayle’s kid, so I’ll stop now.
- Felton
  
  Heh! Yes, I can’t wait to see if he has his dad’s way with words.
Scixual

I was disappointed to see how weak his link to porn was.

As in, I was hoping for pictures. Had a crush on him when we were both teenagers in the 80s.
Anonymous

Ben is now on the attack to try and deflect from all his negative publicity. I got another e-mail today (like the 900th one this week) blasting another candidate for more made up lies. It is beyond proven, nothing coming from the Quayle camp is true, they realized they are losing and are now going the way of Vernon Parker (attack and smear). They are out of money and are attacking the only way they can now, with internet attacks.

Ben- You and you team will read this and we all know you are lying with every press release and article. Good luck on your lying today!
Anonymous

He dodges an invisible potato at :20.
- slickhead
  
  That’s Potatoe.
Brainspore

“Drug cartels in Mexico… What’s happened to America?”

Let’s just sit back and think on that one for a while.
- sum.zero
  
  exactly.
Notary Sojac

I doubt that Ben Quayle would have a snowball’s chance on the ballot in ANY of America’s 57 states.
Felton

My fave: “You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one’s mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
phaedral

His father’s legacy notwithstanding, it’s beyond sad, moving full on to frightening, to think this is considered proper campaigning by anyone. Worse, it will probably be a real winner with the target audience, folks who can take a statement like “X is the worst president in history” at face value with no supporting argument. Something very wrong with the country when this sort of thing exists at all, much less when it comes from the son of a former V.P.. But I guess with the (brown) drug cartels and the (black) tax cartel he’s probably right about the call to violence. What an asshat.
Deadmeat

Obligatory:

Christ, what an asshole.
Anonymous

Yes, but will his fellow astronauts also be running?
Egill SkallagrÃmsson

Poppycock. Andrew Johnson, Warren Harding, James Buchanan have a far more legitimate claim to that title.

But by odd coincidence, Ben’s dad was among the worst VICE Presidents in history! (Respects to Spiro Agnew, Aaron Burr, Dick Cheney, of course.)
bartoncasey

Truly, there is an art to grabbing *just* the right frame out of a video. That banner is beautiful.
jibbles

I tried to find the answer elsewhere, but no luck, so I ask you, boingboing commenters: What is up with Quayle ducking under the invisible rope at 0:20? Or is that mystery actually the unstated point of the whole kerfuffle?
- skabob
  
  “I’m on a horse”
  - skabob
    
    “Silver fish hand catch!”
    - Dapper Swain
      
      “Monocle smile!”
Dennis McDonald

I don’t care which party this guy belongs to. If he’s another one of these politicians who says he hates Washington so much he’s eager to come here and thereby become part of the DC Establishment, I’m not going to listen. I’m interested in solutions, not anti-DC whining.
IronEdithKidd

I like the campaign poster shot. It makes him look super stoned and/or drunk.

I do hope that there are still some lucid voters in AZ who can see through the dog-whistling to the crazy-fringe and vote for someone else.
Glenn Fleishman

Worst. President. Ever.

Are we positive this isn’t a parody? It looks exactly like those political ads shown on SNL.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Link to his official site and Facebook page. I’d say it’s real. Sad, but real.
- Anonymous
  
  No it is not a parody. I live in Phoenix and saw this yesterday on channel 15 sometime between 4:30-5:00 while watching Jeopardy.
batu b

from the politico link: backers include Andy Card, former Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady, Bob Dole and his wife, former Sen. Elizabeth Dole; John Sununu, former Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen , former Sen. Pete Wilson, who went on to become California governor; and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
George H.W. and Barbara Bush hosted a fundraiser for Quayle in May at their Houston home.

At least he’ll know where to throw the punches?
- thefinder
  
  He also knows where to drink he punches, or so it would appear.
Trotsky

Drug cartels in Mexico, huh?

I wonder which cartel they sell to when they get to Scottsdale.
vespabelle

The guy claims deep roots in AZ (fourth generation!) but has never voted in a local AZ election!
Anonymous

@Egill

Oh, come on, just because Buchanan was at the very least culpable in starting the Civil war and had treason charges seriously considered against him you think he is worse than a president who works to drop health care costs below 17% of GDP, put regulations in place to make future financial criseses more shallow, invest in scientific advancement so the US doesn’t become irrelevant, and the terribly grave sin of only slowly fixing the worst economic downturn in 70 years. I mean, clearly there is something dastardly about a president that takes 5 months from entering office to create positive change in economic indicators. If that isn’t the making for worst president in history, in fact worst ruler in history, on par or worse than Nero, Hitler, and compatriots, I really don’t know what is.
phaedral

While watching the vid I couldn’t help hearing in my mind’s ear, “We’re the Young Generation…”, and, no surprise, note the “Support the New Generation” graphic on his official site. GenXcrement maybe?
Bruce Arthurs

Was Ben Quayle home schooled by his dad?

It would explain his meager grasp on American history.
Felton

Mama Said Knock You Out!
- Felton
  
  Or rather: Daddy said something that didn’t make any sense, but that I interpreted as “knock you out!”
Trotsky

Is America stupid enough to vote for Quayle Jr. for Congress just two years removed from the nation crippling clusterfuck that was Bush Jr.?

I think yes.

Arizonans doubly so.
IronEdithKidd

Wonderful. He’s running in Sheriff Joe’s county. By hook or by crook, he will win.
Trotsky

BTW…

>> At first, Quayle denied his connection to The Dirty and the filthy things therein, but Karamian responded to Quayleâ€™s dismissal of the charges with a message to the candidate: â€œI am not attacking you, I am just being honest. Stop listening to your bull sh*t advisors because they are making you look stupid. If you donâ€™t remember me or Brock Landers that is cool. I guess I donâ€™t remember the time you banged [redacted] (a chick) in my spare bedroom. I just let randoms spend the night and have sex with strangersâ€¦ should I continue?â€ he asked, we believe rhetorically.

If Quayle Jr. has staying power and rises to any prominence in the political hierarchy, that Karamian had better take steps to cover his ass. People who try to blackmail Bush and cronies either get paid or get killed. Or paid and later killed.

No joke.

Karamian will be making a huge and possibly fatal mistake if he thinks Quayle Jr. is just a loyal, old drinking buddy and would not throw him under the bus at a moment’s notice.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Care to share your link? This looks kinda interesting.
  - Trotsky
    
    Really? This is new to you? You need a link?
Anonymous

“I did not hit her, I did naaaht…Oh hey Mark.”
Sciurus

What’s with the Rising Sun logo on his official website?
- Felton
  
  That would be the Arizona state flag.
  - Sciurus
    
    Then I shall amend my original statement to “What’s up with Arizona?”
- Felton
  
  Or maybe he’s a “hopa.” ;-P
schmod

If he’s another one of these politicians who says he hates Washington so much he’s eager to come here and thereby become part of the DC Establishment, I’m not going to listen. I’m interested in solutions, not anti-DC whining.

A minor pet peeve: Stop knocking on Washington DC. Ben Quayle’s complaint lies with the federal government — not DC.

If anything, the residents of DC can unquestionably claim the least amount of responsibility for the current state of Congress and the federal government. We sure as hell didn’t vote for any of them.
Egill SkallagrÃmsson

Brock Landers for Congress:
Pro-Family, Pro-Pr0n

http://i.imgur.com/Vgxce.jpg
nanuq

At long last, Sarah Palin has a running mate for 2012.
k88dad

Worried about drug cartels in Mexico? You’d better legalize drugs in the US. Let’s start with Marijuana. There’s a lot of that flowing towards El Norte.

Supply & demand. You can’t fight it.

Superior version of video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YNQaVNfKV8&NR=1
ill lich

The GOP likes to say that Obama hasn’t accomplished much of anything in his year and a half in office (except health care, which they plan to overturn), so how exactly is he the “worst president ever?” If he hasn’t really done anything yet, then the state the nation is in now is the fault of his predecessor, no? And WHAT exactly would McCain/Palin have done in that time had they been elected? Would they have fixed everything overnight? Balanced the budget? Rounded up all the illegals and deported them? Cured cancer? Really?
mgfarrelly

It’s nice to see the potatoe didn’t fall far from the tree.

(Yes, in the Quayle family, potatoes grow on trees.)

How the son of a Vice-President is to be viewed as a “Washington Outsider” only furthers the Quayle paradox.
Ripcord

I’m repeating some of the sentiment of other posts, but it’s still crazy to me that people make such broad, exaggerated statements like “Obama is the worst president in history” (echoing the yelps of “Health care reform will trigger armageddon!”), and think people will take them seriously.

…But I guess some people do. Those people aren’t grown-ups. I’m not sure what they are.
Dapper Swain

Son of Dan Qua^y^le
Trotsky

A lot of that stuff was covered pretty extensively, and even quite a bit in the mainstream press, during the 2000 election. If you really want I can do a recap, but I thought most of that was common knowledge unless you’re one of BB’s younger readers.
ryanrafferty

“I remember when all my drug dealers were American…”
Anonymous

Funny, I went to high school with Ben for 4 years. As I recall, that high school was in Washington DC, and was one of the most well-connected old-guard academies in the city. Our football field was named after Pat Buchanan and we had George Will among our alumni.

I sympathize that politicians need to paint themselves as outsiders in order to win elections, in pretty much any year. But the idea that Ben is any kind of outsider at all is laughable.

Also, I met Dan Quayle a couple of times. He’s a ferocious fundraiser for the Republicans and definitely not ignorant or lazy like GWB. Just terribly gaffe-prone and a bit oblivious.
Trotsky

I’d start here:

http://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/074325337X

http://www.amazon.com/American-Dynasty-Aristocracy-Fortune-Politics/dp/0670032646

http://www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Son-George-American-President/dp/1887128840
DrRufus

He’s just the kind of lying, hateful, degenerate that AZ Republicans love so he will get elected with ease.
dross1260

A Nixon/Quayle ticket would be gold!
Bevatron Repairman

I’m clearly on his side of the aisle, but anyone whose list of “worst President” doesn’t show James Buchanan as number one with a bullet has no business having an opinion about anything else.
- Anonymous
  
  And that list must also include George W Bush pretty near the top–unless you don’t think nearly destroying our economy and bringing us to the brink of WWIII is bad enough.
Wookified

I will remix this until my death!

http://suburbanhymns.com/?p=982
ccazdoc

I don’t think there is a single comment supporting the heir apparent to the Bush/Quayle political juggernaut. His “eyes half mast” picture is such an accurate representation of the depth of this silver spoon politician. Big Ben has never held public office, received almost all of his campaign financing from national (special interest) sources, has an obvious lack of character complemented only by his bravado. In regards to his comments re: Obama, I would pay money to see a debate between this dufus and Barack. In closing, in light of Quayle’s credentials and character, it is a sign of the times that well funded, political insiders can be elected so easily by an ignorant electorate. With politicians like Ben at the helm, who needs Barack Obama to screw things up.
SDukeEllis

America was not weakened by Barack Obama (although he isn’t helping at all). America was weakened by Ben Quayle’s Daddy, Daddy’s friends, Daddy’s predecessor, and their bitch kids.

Obama might not be the best president in history, but the bar for the title of Worst President in History has already been set impossibly high by the maniac he succeeded. Let’s not exaggerate Obama’s fledgling impact on America just yet. Let’s at least wait until he does something!
nico_forgot

@deadmeat – i came over wondering how long the obligatory statement would take and was surprised to see it took ten!
Anonymous

I like Rob Tisinai’s take on Benji (wait for the end) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOzLUarLHU
drublin

My mom just asked me who to contact to complain that she finds his add offensive.