People are quick to bash Reagan, but you gotta remember, the other side had Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Gerry Brown, …
Not exactly the kind of guys you’d want to trust with the keys of state. But you didn’t have to wait for the Contract with America to bail on the right. Dan Quayle should have done it all by himself. He was Sarah Palin before Sarah Palin. The right was stuck trying to pretend he was somehow fit to take over for H. The real fact was he made H impeachment-proof.