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May 23, 2006
"Senator, You're No Jack Kennedy"
It was likely the most effective political putdown of my generation's lifetime... and it destroyed what little credibility Dan Quayle might have had before the debate. It was incisive, it was surgically precise, and it summed up the Indianan's lightweightedness in one devsatating exchange. And now the man who uttered that famous retort, former Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, is gone, passing away today at the age of 85.
I have no idea what kind of Senator Bentsen was. But he'll be in the political history books for that famous exchange -- even in a losing effort -- and for the way he utterly demolished Dan Quayle's chances at being taken seriously.
Fare thee well, Senator.
