Former VP Dan Quayle’s Son, Rep. Ben Quayle, Becomes First Freshman House Republican to Lose Seat in Primary Over Redistricting
Rep. Ben Quayle Becomes First Freshman House Republican to Lose Seat in Primary (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Arizona Tea Party darling Rep. Ben Quayle is the first Freshman Republican to lose his seat in what has been characterized as a bitterly contested primary between he and Rep. Dave Schweikert. Ben Quayle, the son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, becomes the 8th House member to lose to a fellow lawmaker as a result of redistricting. He’s the 12th overall member to lose a primary this cycle. Good riddance. Kinda makes the whole Sea of Galilee scandal worth it. His loss gives a whole new meaning to “here today, gone tomorrow.”
What makes this whole think hilarious is that Ben Quayle had called on Dave Schweikert to concede, the Fix reports. Um, wrong man!
This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.
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The Tea Party movement?
A ship of great and timely ideas.
Overloaded with ideologues and reckless deck hands.
Led by a captain with no voyage plan or strategy.
That instead of going around a storm to preserve the ship of state,
Madly shout, “Damn the torpedos and full steam ahead.”
And once within the eye of the storm believe they have won the war.
When in fact all that was won was a battle to the eye of the storm,
But disaster unimaginable as the eye of the storm passes.
Worst of all, this mighty ship of state is lacking one essential thing.
To traverse the sea and storm aloft it must have a rudder sturdy and straight.
However, the Tea Party took a ship of state out to sea with a seriously broken rudder,
and when met by storm the rudder dashed to pieces.
And still the Tea party revels in its rightness and ideology,
While the ship of state takes on more water and sinks,
While the crew remains drunkly sure in its ideology,
An ideology devoid of strategy and driven by a captain and his pilot,
both named Koch!