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inlawrev-23208	Lamber, Margo M.; Bryant, A. Christopher	Hoosier Bridesmaids	2021	42	.pdf	application/pdf	19224	1106	66	Bush developed heart problems in May 1991 while jogging, and there was talk of Quayle becoming president if the president had to be anesthetized.439 Visions of “President Quayle” worried the public.440 Furthermore, Quayle continued to misspeak and was sometimes credited with gaffes he never uttered.441 He also delivered a speech about family values wherein he criticized the popular television program “Murphy Brown” because the lead character had a child out of wedlock and “mock[ed] the importance of fathers,” Quayle asserted.442 His point was a timely one, as Americans were increasingly worried by the rise of single-parent families, but his attack on a fictional character made him seem ludicrous.443 At another photo-op, this time a local spelling bee, Quayle made the mistake of amending a child’s correct spelling of the word “potato” because Quayle had been given a card with “potato” written on it.444 With these problems, the Bush administration seemed very vulnerable by the summer of 1992, and some Republicans suggested getting rid of Quayle to strengthen their position.445 Opinion polls revealed Quayle was the most unpopular vice president in the last forty years, scoring even lower than Spiro Agnew, Nixon’s vice president who resigned after he was caught in a corruption scandal. With Vice Presidents Quayle and Pence, of course, the opposite becomes true, as their selection was entirely the product of the wisdom of the presidential candidate himself, and in both cases, it was immediately and widely understood as revealing something important about the presidential nominee and his strategy for the general election.	cache/inlawrev-23208.pdf	txt/inlawrev-23208.txt