When you pick as a VP candidate someone who is inexperienced and unfamiliar with national politics, you don't know what you are going to get. Above, a look back at Dan Quayle's VP announcement speech in 1988 and then subsequent campaign gaffes.
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A Look Back at Dan Quayle 1988
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Posted on: August 29, 2008 12:47 PM, by Matthew C. Nisbet
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