Quayle

Her husband, Mike Pence, who served as Trump’s vice president in his first term and whom insurrectionists chanted about killing during the Jan. 6 effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss, attended, as did former Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn.

Bush continued his antics later by lightly hitting someone behind him—Dan Quayle?—with a program, while Al Gore looked on, as if Gore of all people hadn’t been terrorized enough by this man.

A few months later, Quayle was sworn in as vice-president after his ticket won in a landslide.

Recall, from 1988, Dan Quayle and the infamous “You’re no Jack Kennedy” rejoinder, which Democrat Lloyd Bentsen leveled after the youthful Quayle compared himself to the youthful president.

The gibe blew Quayle off the debate stage; then, just a few weeks later, Republicans won the White House in a landslide.