Republican Ben, the son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, is running for Congress in Arizona and has recently been embroiled in controversy surrounding his past writings for "gawdy, sex-themed" website TheDirty.com. And his GOP rivals are having a field day! (Link to full story at bottom).It seems that other republicans in the field, in advance of next Tuesday's GOP primary, have been bombarding the airwaves with TV ads attacking Quayle for his connection to the website, which reportedly devotes itself to wild nightlife photos from across the country. Quayle has admitted to previously writing and contributing material to the website under the pseudonym "Brock Landers" (the name of a fictional porn star from the film Boogie Nights). He now says he just wants to move on.
So what's the big deal here? So the dude used to write material for some over-the-top website with a lot of racey photos. (That sounds vaguely familiar.) I think it's cool that he used to do that. Only in the land of the deranged right-wingers known as the republican party could such a matter be turned into some big campaign issue. What's the next big bombshell these freaks are going to try to drop? That Quayle once looked at a Playboy? That he actually once watched Boogie Nights? Please.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41305.html
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