Democrats Blast Ben Quayle As The 'Son Of The Worst Vice President EVER'

Democrats are firing back at Arizona congressional candidate Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, on the heels of the GOP hopeful's release of an ad calling President Obama "the worst president in history."

"The son of the worst vice president ever may think he has some wisdom on the job performance of political leaders," explained Brad Woodhouse, spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, to CNN. "But if he thinks a president whose actions have saved the country from a second Great Depression, reformed a broken health care system and protected consumers from the risk and greed of Wall Street merits such mention, his analysis is only slightly less ridiculous than his candidacy for public office is."

Quayle, who is running for Arizona's 3rd district House seat, alleged in the 30-second spot that because of Obama, his "generation will inherit a weakened country."

(A Siena study released last month ranked the top presidents in American history. Obama received significantly higher marks than former President George H. W. Bush, as well as the second Bush, who was rated among the five worst White House leaders.)

WATCH: Quayle's Campaign Ad Taking Aim At Obama

Comments

[Loni Wolf]

02:32 AM on 08/18/2010

Talk about the worst of both worlds- he looks like his Mom and has his Dad's intelligence. He might have been something to worry about if it had been reversed. As Forest Gump says "stupid is as Stupid does". and Stupid ran a soft -core porn site in college, calls a half trms President the "worst ever" (it's customary to wait until they have finished their term(s) James Buchanan still tops nearly every historians's list of worst presidents, due to the corruption within his administration. Of any modern President , only Nixon cracks the top 10 & that is for committing a Felony. on a 3rd rate break in

[Moe Sislak]

01:57 AM on 08/18/2010

I checked out that Siena chart and Obama is #15, I mean I'm a big fan but how is he that high on the list with less then two years in?

[JayDDrew]

09:54 PM on 08/15/2010

A split second after the commercial ends, I just picture him walking into the side of the door.
We can laugh and think he won't show up in D.C., but he is talking a calculated risk that his district has more people who think like him than not.
And notice all his interviews are excerpts from Fox News. I'd love to see Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow or another liberal interview him.

[KristalKlofft]

01:12 AM on 08/16/2010

I am sure Ben won the spelling bee and Potatoeeee was the word he won with...How about a run off from Fox with the candidate Vernon Parker. Have you happened to read this candidate's qualifications? He is so far from what Republicans want it is a joke. How a man can take government money and call himself this conservative man of the hour makes me ill. This political insider basically steals from us (the taxpayers) and then wants us to elect him. His so-called business had never generated a profit prior to the $1.2 million Affirmative Action Grant funded by your tax dollars. I am so tired of government spending our money for their own benefit. Pathetic, greedy, money suckers like Parker need to be kept far away from government. I think Obama has a good idea of how to spend money, he does not need guys like Parker to help him!

[maxtwain]

11:43 AM on 08/15/2010

Dems are still sore that Quayle retired legendary Democrat Birch Bayh.

As for worst VP, I think Aaron Burr has that one locked up.

And Worst Presidents, well that's easy too:

5. Hernert Hoover
4. Woodrow Wilson
3. Barack Obama
2. James Buchanan
1. Jimmy Carter

[Emogi]

01:11 PM on 08/17/2010

Your ranking of Jimmy Carter as the worst president in history, topping Buchanan, just shows how ignorant and biased you are. Even ignoring the rest of the list (which any historian would scoff at), that little bit of information tells me that you know next to nothing about U.S. history. It's like you're a Republican senator!

[wespenn56]

09:12 PM on 09/10/2010

Not really a student of history, are you?

[TheKurgan]

10:39 PM on 08/14/2010

Worst Presidents in history:

1. Shrub
2. James Buchanan
3. Harding
4. Reagan

Dishonorable mention: Taylor, Pierce, Fillmore, Grant

[bob5148]

09:22 PM on 08/14/2010

Could you imagine if Dan Quayle was Vice President to the second George Bush presidency. It would have been an outright monopoly on stupidity with enough joke material for the next millenia

[Erkan Tarik]

09:13 PM on 08/14/2010

:)))))) funniest ad ever

[andiannj]

02:52 PM on 08/14/2010

The 'potatoe' doesn't fall far from the tree.

[amaboss52]

02:44 PM on 08/14/2010

I didn't know Mr and Mrs Potatoe head had a son?

[Cali4BHO]

01:31 PM on 08/14/2010

Dan Quayle, Vice President to George Bush from 1988-1992, is one of the most famous misstatement makers ever. Here is a collection of some of his most notorious flubs.

* "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

* "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

* "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

* "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

* "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."

* "I deserve respect for the things I did not do."

* "This President is going to lead us out of this recovery."

* "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

* "This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs."

* "We lead in exporting jobs." -- Committing a Freudian slip while speaking to the Chamber of Commerce of Evansville, Indiana, a city which lost four large companies in the previous four years. He quickly changed the word 'jobs' to 'products.'

* "If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."

* "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."

* "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

[Davest]

01:26 PM on 08/14/2010

So...... How are drug cartels in Mexico, our problem?

Oh, I get it, the draconian drug laws here in the U.S. have created a black market. THUSLY empowering the cartels by not ony creating the market with said policy, we are also the largest CONSUMER!

Hmm if there was only a way to legalize weed here in the U.S. so we would take that out of the hands of the black market. I mean it's been here for thousands of years, millions of Americans use it daily.

Now that I think of it, Marijuana is less addictive than coffee, and has never killed anyone, like ever. Try saying that about cigarettes, or alcohol......

[Cali4BHO]

01:17 PM on 08/14/2010

The t u r d don't fall far from the bird.

[68GREYFOX]

12:29 PM on 08/14/2010

I wonder if Ben can spell patato?

[amaboss52]

02:46 PM on 08/14/2010

Don't know if you intended it but its potato.

[KristalKlofft]

01:06 AM on 08/16/2010

haaaa, even the seemingly bright cannot spell!

[seachild]

03:23 AM on 08/18/2010

Uh, I don't know if YOU intended, but for your sentence, the word is IT'S...not its.

[jadeba]

12:00 PM on 08/14/2010

That apple fell right at the base of the tree. He really creeps me out.

[Anna Maltese]

11:57 PM on 08/13/2010

I'm not sure he understands how uninspiring petulance is.

[Davest]

01:17 PM on 08/14/2010

he just looks like he would suck the life out of a party