History Rewritten... My Way

Vice Presidential Debate 1988

Lloyd Benson: “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

Dan Quayle: Senator, I am not a war hero, and in no way am I as talented a politician as John Kennedy. But I promise here tonight that if I should ever be serving in the Oval Office and the Soviet Union attempts to build another wall in Europe... I will not sit Idly by... I'll stop them. And if another group of American-backed Cuban freedom fighters challenges Castro... I will not forsake them and allow their slaughter... I'll support them to victory. And thereby - standing strong against communism at every turn - the Soviets will not assume weakness on our part and risk so bold a venture as placing missiles in Cuba or any other country in the western hemisphere... And we will avert the unnecessary threat and crisis of an imminent thermonuclear war.

And Senator Benson, my daily agenda at the White House will never include entertaining beautiful women unchaperoned.

So I concur, Senator... I'm no Jack Kennedy. And, I thank you.

It would have been sweet.