Former Vice President Dan Quayle Calls Attacks Against His Son, Ben Quayle, 'Ugly' And 'Slanderous'

Opponents of Ben Quayle, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, watch out, he just went there! (He called mommy and daddy.)

Quayle has been consistently plagued by reports that he may have been part of the content creation team behind scandalous gossip website TheDirty.com. Charges that he had actually written salacious comments for the site under the pseudonym "Brock Landers," the name of a fictional porn star in the movie "Boogie Nights," have now made it into an 11th hour attack ad released by opponent Steve Moak over the weekend, a spot that attributes words written by "Landers" directly to Quayle. Quayle has repeatedly rejected any connection to the postings, and now he's getting reinforcement from his parents.

"With the recent turn of events, I cannot in good conscience remain silent," Ben Quayle's father, former Vice President Dan Quayle wrote in an email, Politico reports.

"I took my fair share of outrageous slams in politics but Steve Moak's vicious smear against my son is over the top and unprecedented," Quayle continued. "I have never in my 35 years of politics seen such an ugly, slanderous assault in the closing days of a campaign against a fellow Republican."

Quayle goes on to explain that his son's connection to the "Dirty" chain of websites was limited to a few introductory remarks made on "Dirty Scottsdale," a precursor to TheDirty.com that has since been retired.

"Ben made a satirical fictional posting on a blog three or four years ago commenting on night life in Scottsdale. That blog no longer exists. Ben had absolutely nothing to do with the vulgar website mentioned in the ad created and aired by Steve Moak," the elder Quayle wrote.

And if dad's word isn't good enough, Quayle's mom, Marilyn Quayle, drafted her own email defending her son.

Politico provides the text:

"In a particularly despicable commercial...[Moak] takes a quote from fictional satire and attributes it as a serious life philosophy of Ben's," she wrote. "He also wrongly asserts that Ben has written for a particularly vulgar website. In the 35 years that I have been involved in Republican politics I have never seen a Republican try to personally destroy another Republican in this way."

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P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Enough said? Well, no, actually. Ben Quayle's high-profile last name and political connections have helped him raise more than $1.1 million. Only one other candidate in the race has raised more than $300,000. Politico reports on the role that the senior Quayle and his political lineage have played in the campaign:

In the six months since he launched his campaign, Quayle has raked in more than $1.1 million in donations, including thousands from Cabinet members and heavyweights from the first Bush administration. Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, hosted a fundraiser for Quayle in May at their Houston home. [...] And Quayle is quick to use his political pedigree as a credential. “I believe that my experience in the private sector and also my past experience being around Washington, knowing how Washington works, knowing how to get things done there — and avoid the pitfalls that some people fall into there, believing that echo chamber that is Washington, D.C. — that background is unique, and it will serve me well as a congressman,” he said.

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P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Enough said? Well, no, actually. Ben Quayle's high-profile last name and political connections have helped him raise more than $1.1 million. Only one other candidate in the race has raised more than $300,000.

Politico reports on the role that the senior Quayle and his political lineage have played in the campaign:

In the six months since he launched his campaign, Quayle has raked in more than $1.1 million in donations, including thousands from Cabinet members and heavyweights from the first Bush administration. Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, hosted a fundraiser for Quayle in May at their Houston home.

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And Quayle is quick to use his political pedigree as a credential. “I believe that my experience in the private sector and also my past experience being around Washington, knowing how Washington works, knowing how to get things done there — and avoid the pitfalls that some people fall into there, believing that echo chamber that is Washington, D.C. — that background is unique, and it will serve me well as a congressman,” he said.

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[PaulaEmKay]

04:53 AM on 09/18/2010

In the anti-Washington fervor fostered by the Tea Party, Ben Quayle actually states, "my experience in the private sector and also my past experience being around Washington, knowing how Washington works, knowing how to get things done there...that background is unique, and it will serve me well as a congressman." That shows that Ben Quayle is either tone deaf, or feels that he is entitled to the office. He comes across as arrogant and sneering in his "worst President ever" commercial. (You can see he has inherited his mother's looks and her aggressiveness...shades of GWB and his mother Barbara).

[mominvermont]

10:38 AM on 08/26/2010

This may seem obvious but Quayle says that he made comments on a site that "doesn't exist anymore,"
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dirtyscottsdale.com
Silly rabbit, internet is forever!
If someone knows what to look for, the site still exists.

[CJ40inWI]

11:26 PM on 08/25/2010

Well Danny, did you you tell your son in this day and age if you open your mouth, be prepared to shove your foot in it?

[KOisGod]

08:58 PM on 08/25/2010

LOL, "The dirty"

Pretty much describes everyone on the right.

[KOisGod]

08:55 PM on 08/25/2010

Not only d()mb is he, but &gly too.

[springsm]

06:23 PM on 08/25/2010

Mr Vice President ...your son did not drop far from the tree. Think on that for awhile.

[DamienThorne]

02:38 PM on 08/25/2010

Ben Quayle is an up close in your face result of T-Ball, everyone getting to play in youth sports teams to build up the false sense they are actually any good and every other little tissue paper soft rule in the Pussification of America handbook that has turned Americans soft. Daddy might as well have sent Ben back to work with a note tapped to his Josie and the Pussycats lunchbox that said..."Stop making fun of my son its destroying his self esteem". Keep it up Ben...sounds like a Summers Eve endorsement deal is coming soon.

[Red Russet]

11:57 AM on 08/25/2010

The Quayles are a laffriot. Actually their name is really spelled Quail, but has evolved over time, with each new generation taking a whack at signing their name without first consulting the family spelling book.

[jojojo]

11:39 AM on 08/25/2010

I'll bet dad also said it was "uncalled for."

[SF TKF]

10:58 AM on 08/25/2010

That would be "uglie" and "slanderouse", correct?

[nicothebaker]

10:56 AM on 08/25/2010

Winning Formula for Republicans: Speak the truth about President Obama, get slammed by MSM, then cruise to victory. Sounds like Quayle has stumbled on a winner!

[ConservativeWorld]

10:30 AM on 08/25/2010

Ben, here is a refresher on the Lib Playbook.

Play #1: Scare granny by saying "Republicans want to take your social security". Truth is Obamacare guts social security.

Play #2: Play the race card. They accuse the Republicans of being racist when they are the true racists.

Play #3: Use people as props whenever possible. They always need to find a "victim" or someone they can say is "oppressed" from some other group "in power" or someone who is "disadvantaged".

Play #4: Divide people into groups and classes and play class warfare. Since their ideas are weak, they always to need to pit one person against another. That way, they can create people who are the enemy and build up anger.

Play #5: Put cumbersome regulation is place and make it difficult for the free markets and business to operate. Then, when something occurs in response to the regulation, blame the free markets. Even though the regulation injured the markets, use the public’s lack of knowledge in economics to exploit it.

Play #6: When running for office, sound like a Conservative. An Alinsky tactic, the Lib politician will talk about things like “fiscal responsibility” and promoting a business culture. The truth is that it is all a lie.

Play #7: Never let a crisis go to waste. It allows you do things that you ordinarily would not be able to do. Remember, the goal is to take away people’s freedom, property, and eventually, their hope.

[jojojo]

11:41 AM on 08/25/2010

Hahahahahahah....hahahahaha.....hahaha. Oh my. great stuff. Your sense of the absurd is awesome!

[KOisGod]

08:57 PM on 08/25/2010

wacked

[Nukualofa]

10:30 AM on 08/25/2010

The spawn of Dan Quayle. That is scary.

[jeremyfive]

10:23 AM on 08/25/2010

And Quayle has nothing to say about the slander and ugliness coming out of the mouth of his son?

If I where Ben Quayle's father, I'd go get the soap, rather than calling for national sympathy as Dan Quayle does. Pathetic.

[cntlscrut]

11:10 AM on 08/25/2010

He should wash his son's mouth out with potatoes. lol.

[BlackTantalus]

03:46 PM on 08/26/2010

The little Quayle boy is the worst candidate for the House of Representatives EVER, and please keep in mind Bachmann, Foxx, and several other sitting Congress-persons we could name (if we were not working on a borrowed computer).

[nicothebaker]

10:06 AM on 08/25/2010

Winner!! A new formula for winning has been discovered.