in his memoir, dan quayle laid the blame on one specific campaign staffer. "what are we supposed to do, i asked the advanced man who prepared this photo op, just sit there and read these words off flash cards and the kids will go up and spell them on the blackboard. has anyone checked the cards? yeah, we looked at them and they are simple words, no big deal." after telling the 6th grader to put an "e" on the end, he didn't know he did anything wrong. it was after the photo op that a reporter asked mr. quayle how you spell potato. i gave him a puzzled look and the press started laughing. none of the staff people had told me. wow. what happens to campaign staffers who screw up that badly, who essentially end a vice president's career, who end a vice presidency? what happens to a staffer who does something that bad? well, fast forward 20 years, and that staffer becomes michele bachmann's new presidential campaign manager. michele bachmann's old campaign manager stepped down last night to be replaced by the potato guy. politico.com making the connection between

not to say anything negative about dan quayle. that's one of the few things a candidate can do.ht it was very important that he think about that. after four years, i was a target for a lot of my critics, darth vader and so forth. >> sean: still are. >> still. and i fought it should be a conscious decision. i wanted -- i thought it should be a conscious decision. i wanted him to know if he made a decision to have somebody else in the job for a second term it was fine with me. >> sean: how did that go over? >> first couple of times he didn't pay a lot of attention. the third time i said mr. president you really need to think about this. i'm happy to continue to serve if that's what you want but you need to know that i'm perfectly happy to leave and make room for somebody else. he thought about it for a few days. came back and said no dick, he said it is a great team and we are going to continue, as we have. i was glad he picked me. i was also glad that he felt -- i felt he had the opportunity to make a change if he wanted. >> sean: in one of the interviews that you recently gave,

president bush and vice president dan quayle were critical of two sitcoms they felt set bad examplesountry. quayle critical of murphy brown because of title character decided to be a single mom. and bush was critical of what program? roseann, married with children, growing pains, the simpsons? what did bush the elder not like on tv? cards up please. roll the tape. >> good memoirs. good, not great. now, let's suit that baby up. >> hello, mr. bush! >> bill: for those listening on xm, the answer was d. levy wins! >> bill: all right. but it was good. it was a spirited -- very competitive. >> not even close. >> bill: you okay? you all right? >> i think so. >> wake up, man. >> bill: you got them all right. but you look a little dazed. >> is it over? >> finally. >> bill: he might be there tonight at 3:00 o'clock if we can get the bail out. pins and patriots on deck. a kid asking president obama a very tough question. you go next if you had a hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible with a hoveround. tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor and founder of hove

anyway, seems like dan quayle working there. and defense against climate change?t could we be getting at? comparing to the climate change skeptics buy galileo or comparing himself to galileo? did he make a history gaffe and confuse it with his predecessor copernicus? do they need more evidence before being taken seriously? we know galileo, a man of science, a hero. rick perry is not galileo. >>> for the big number, during the debate at the reagan library, the candidates spard on afltd issues. one name kept popping up as an example they about strive to follow. >> ronald reagan was committed to america being a force for good. >> ronald reagan flup flew this plane i. served during the reagan campaign i strongly supported ronald reagan. >> the message of ronal reagan. >> ronald reagan made a deal. >> if president reagan were here. >> referencing president range. >> we're in the reagan library. >> president range. >> president reagan. >> ronald reagan that would be ronald reagan. >> the reagan tradition. >> i'm with president reagan. >> wow. that's right. ronald reagan

they remember for all time and dan quayle as he had done on the campaign trail and he had a line saying i knew jack kennedy, jack kennedy was a friend of mine and we all know jack kennedy. now there is some dispute about what it was prepared line. it sure sounded like one to me. what is your -- >> guest: it sure sounded that way to me. unfortunately i wasn't able to talk to lloyd bentsen because he was killed by the time i got around to it. but in public statements he made to reporters after the debate when he was asked whether or not that was the prepared mind he said no, no, no, it just came to me. however, some of the folks around been centiliter said well, we have heard him say this before, in other words, we have heard quayle say something about john f. kennedy before about the experience and the point that quayle had more experience in congress and in government than john kennedy when he was elected president. and so inveigh were ready for this. and i think we just have to leave it to come here again, two different views of what happened. >> host: talk a little bit about the negot

where of course lloyd bentsen comes up with one of the lines we will remember for all of time when dan quayle mentioned jack kennedy as he had done on the campaign trail, and he had a line saying i knew jack kennedy he was a friend of mine and you are no jack kennedy. there is some dispute whether that was prepared line. it sounded like one to me. what is your -- >> guest: it sounded that way to me. unfortunately i was not able to talk to lloyd bentsen because he was ill by the time i got to it, but in public statements that he made to the reporters after the date when he was asked whether or not there was a prepared line he said noted just came to me, however, some of the folks around benson leader said we heard him say this before, in other words we heard him say something about john f. kennedy before about the experience thing. that is what he had more experience in congress and government than john f. kennedy did when he was elected president said they were ready for this and we have to leave it to hear again to the two different views of what happened. >> host: talk about the negotiation

c-span: your son, william kristol, was an aide to bill bennett, he was a chief of staff to dan quayle, and now he's kind of on his own out there. >> guest: on his own, right. c-span: did you notice when he started to really take all this politics stuff seriously in his life? >> guest: even retrospectively i find it hard to understand. i certainly would never have predicted it. he was very much an intellectual, a scholar. i assumed that he'd stay in the academy all of his life, that he'd do very serious, very profound books about political philosophy or whatever, and i thought when he first came to washington to work for bill bennett, i thought, that's a nice reprieve from academic life, but it wouldn't last long, i thought, instead of which he turned out to be enormously interested in current politics and i think very, very talented at it. he has a very extraordinary ability of bringing his philosophical principles to bear upon current events. c-span: do you remember when he first started getting interested in this early in his life? was in this early in his life? was it at your knee?

. >> dan quayle could argue that was his time.hat shows you. >> i think all that is completely right. but having said that, looking around the republican field, apart from romney, who is there that is a credible candidate that would have a chance of winning? >> that's what i'm saying. >> still have to ask that question. >> jon huntsman at 2%, and he's going to stay at 2%, but he could make a good run at a general election, but that's not going to happen. >> on a superficial note, i was talking to republicans, and a lot of this has to do with -- >> where were you? >> it was a telephone call. >> i was going to say. >> but they said -- partly because of rick perry's performance that mitt romney "looks presidential." it sounds silly, but he looks like the adult on the stage. and they also said -- it wasn't just him saying this, they said perry was "palin-esque," that seemed to be word salad. >> if rick perry ends up with a debt, romney should retire it because if it weren't for perry's entry and romney was just thrashing michele bauch

in 1992 dan quayle blasted the values of single and pregnant murphy brown. >> it doesn't help matters who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice. >> today, there are more than 11 million single mothers in america. can you even imagine an outcry about murphy brown today? genders on television are more controversial granted, but conrad green told the hollywood reporter we don't have an agenda of any sorts. i think of the 120 celebrities we have put on the show we have had now, i think, three transgender or gay contestants. if that's a homosexual agenda, we're not doing very well at it. the talkback question this morning is the criticism against chaz bono and abc fair? facebook.com/americanmorning. >> i thought it was just the dancing -- i didn't know. >> dancing with the stars and politics, who knew? >>> still to come a river runs through it. . talking about a new jersey man's living room. you may not believe how he escaped the raging floodwaters and

softball question that's what congressman paul ryan and ben quayle among others are have been doing and then there's guys like congressman dan webster of florida who are resorting to creating wanted posters with pictures and personal details of people who dared to ask them about things like privatizing medicare and then passed out those wanted posters to other town hall attendees basically saying you know if you ask a question like that that i don't like you'll end up on the next poster and then there's people like chuck grassley who choose just a lot of their constituents. ever privatized social security when he's been working to do that for almost a decade either way republicans are desperately trying to hide the truth about their plans to radically mate remake america by turning our commons and social safety net over to the bankers on wall street and the oil. and we can't let them get away with it so it's time to force those republicans who are hiding under their desks to listen and means showing up at your congressman's district office call son of letters letters of the editor to the local newspaper or email us talk abou