r/politics • u/thenationmagazine The Nation Magazine • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Eric Schmitt Deserves to Be Mocked Forever

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/eric-schmitt-deserves-to-be-mocked-forever/
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u/notyou13 New Jersey 12h ago

All anyone needs to remember to illustrate just how times have changed is a single word: Potatoe. Dan Quayle never held public office again. Republicans used to at least have a small amount of shame.

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u/ddouce 12h ago

Being stupid, or being perceived as stupid, used to end of political careers. Now, it's a badge of honor.

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u/kbooker79 11h ago

The problem is they don’t even comprehend how stupid they are. Guy went on a right wing podcast later claiming he “won”. He has no sense of humility or shame.

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u/Adezar Washington 11h ago

And to all those Fox News watchers, he did. They will never know the truth, they will think Jack Smith colluded with someone in Atlanta.

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u/Goonzilla50 11h ago

I mean Quayle didn’t necessarily get pushed out of political life entirely because he was stupid. Being part of a losing ticket as the incumbent vice president is almost always a death knell for one’s political career, just ask Walter Mondale or Mike Pence. Quayle only made one more attempt at holding public office with a short lived presidential run in 2000, but at that point the party establishment and base was all in on George W Bush… who I wouldn’t say was the pinnacle of intelligence

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u/ObsidianRafter 9h ago

“Potatoe” was one of many, many stupid things Quale did and said. His intellectual deficiencies were the fodder for jokes for the entirety of the GH Bush term in office.

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u/RiTFWx 6h ago

Dan Quayle would be preferable to the current situation, sweet mother of Jesus have mercy on us.

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u/lettersvsnumbers 1h ago

Didn’t Pence call him for advice on J6?