Dan Quayle’s son, Ben, is running for Arizona congressman. Look out, Basil Marceaux Dot Com, there is a new Sherriff in Yikes Town.

Holy moly. That advertisement is like watching paint RUN FOR CONGRESS. Hey, Ben Quayle, you are seeking to gain the trust of voters at a time when anti-Washington political disenfranchisement is at a record high, and you carry the legacy of a total gumball for a father, so at the very least, how about DRINKING A RED BULL BEFORE YOU TURN THE CAMERA ON. Once you are actually AWAKE, then I suppose we can deal with figuring out what the hell you are even talking about. (Via TheAwl.)

Comments (79)
  1. You have to admit that his lips are so gorgeous.

  2. I don’t love Arizona much at the minute… does that mean I was raised wrong?

    • I think “raised right” is one of those things like “cool” that if you go around saying out loud that you are it, you’re wrong.

  3. This pisses me off more than the stupid T.Mills jagoff.

  4. He was raised “Right”. Get it, you guys?!?! This guy, what a comedian!

  5. What does Obama have to do with drug cartels in Mexico again? Someone please ‘splain to me.

  6. “Let’s take down the Washington establishment.” – Son of a former US Vice President

  7. I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix
    -Dan Quayle

  8. If he thinks Obama’s bad, just wait until President Frankenstein takes office.

  9. I would have thought beat poets were Democrats. Maybe for the next ad, he can grow a soul patch and get some bongos.

  10. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, wanted to show that just because two people are father and son does not make them ideologically the same.
    But then I watched the video. T Mill$ and then this? Ouch, Gabe.

  11. you can sneak onto ‘the more you know’ soundstage, but dammit if you can’t get the logo to work.

  12. At least give him credit for his pen name, Brock Landers

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40937.html#ixzz0wJBnX37D

  13. I was reallllyyyyyy anticipating an explosion and/or sunglasses after the line
    ‘Somebody needs to go to Washington…and knock the hell out of the place’

    If I had better internetz skills, there would be David Caruso animated all up in this comment.

  14. I wonder if he can spell “self potato” correctly.

  15. That script has more non-sequiturs than an episode of Family Guy. Senator, you’re no Seth MacFarlane. You are actually WORSE.

  16. “Barack Obama is the worst president in history. There are drug cartels in Mexico. I like Arizona. I have a dog. His name is Oscar. One time, my brother broke his arm. A human head weighs eight pounds.”

  17. He’s like a real-life Tim Calhoun.

  18. Where was he going at the end of the commercial? It was like he gave up before they were even done filming.

  19. To be fair to Ben, he never said that he was the one who should go “beat the knock out of the place.”

    I nominate this guy:

  20. i see he went to the tim james school of awkward movement.

  21. I’d like to…yawn…knock the hell out of his…we’re just blowing through nap-time aren’t we…face

  22. Sigh. He’s going to win, isn’t he?

  23. And people call Al Gore an emotionless automaton…

  24. By the way, I didn’t know Monsters were a target General Hospital demographic?

  25. And all this time, I thought this guy was the worst President ever.

    Learn something new everyday, I guess.

  26. Seth Green’s performance art has improved.

  27. “I love Arizona. I was raised right.” YOU’RE FROM INDIANA, FOOL. And how is Dan Quayle’s son going to say with any authority who the worst president is? He needs to shut that pretty mouth right up.

  28. Drug cartels in Mexico.
    Tax cartels in D.C.
    Cheap hotels in Jersey
    Light pastels in L..L. Bean
    Future Denzel in “The Book of Eli”
    What’s happened to America?

  29. When you start your campaign video by saying that Obama is the worst president ever? That just makes me think that you don’t know what Presidents are, or how many of them we’ve had. We’ve had a lot! Several of them are OBJECTIVELY worse than our current President!

    THE MORE YOU KNOWWWW

  30. The only thing I remember about the Quayles is that Dan Quayle was a fan of Buster and Babs Bunny in the episode of Tiny Toon Adventures where they go to washington to get the lady from the “Adults Against Funny Cartoons” association to stop removing their forrest or something. Plucky was there and had to improvise a disguise since he wasn’t invited to the state dinner or whatever they were attending. He glanced at a newspaper headline and then told people he was an endangered species called a “bush-quayle”.

    This has been my impression of the Quayle family for 17 years. Cartoon joke fodder.

  31. 20 second in: Ben Quayle stylishly dodges a bullet.

  32. What Republicans say: “What happened to America?”

    What Republicans mean: “What possessed so many of you to vote for a dirty Negro?”

    There ya go. FTFY.

  33. Looks like somebody needs some lessons in ENTHUSIASM people! HELLO!

  34. everytime i see a white politician complaining about the wealth of mexicans in the southwest i just want to scream “WE WERE HERE FIRST.”

    ya viene la reconquista asshole.

  35. Also, I would like to point out that while drug cartels are a serious problem in Mexico and kill thousands of people annually, there is hardly any violence on our side of the border.

    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2007474,00.html

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