The ever-profound Dan Quayle spoke with Greta Sustern on Fox News yesterday, regarding the selection of a Vice President:
"I think both Senator McCain and Senator Obama will use similar criteria. Clearly, the person has to be qualified. Secondly, they will be looking for someone who will be loyal to them, and someone whom they will be comfortable with, because you are going to spend a lot of time together.
Third, they probably will look at what do they bring to the ticket. Is it geography? Is it unifying the party? What is it that they really bring to the ticket?
Those are sort of the key criteria that they will go through, whoever he or she may be on either side.
Now, the difference will be, will be the process. I think both of them have a sort of a vetting process that are set up. But, ultimately, Greta, it comes down to what? A decision of one person.
It is a great game that goes on. Why? Because beyond the polls and the back-and-forth sound-bites, there is nothing really of significance until the convention.
Well, my guess is that Obama, who will go first, will not make his choice made until, perhaps, the weekend before, or, if it happens to be Senator Clinton, which most people think it won't be, he could probably wait until Tuesday at the convention.
And then after he makes his selection, and the Democratic Convention is concluded, then McCain will make his."
Of his run as a VEEP, Quayle says:
"I have been in Washington for, what? I had been in the Senate for eight years and then the House four years, so 12 years. And I had been around the White House, and I knew what the job was.
What you don't know, which is the new experience, is the security and the Secret Service. And they are great people, both men and women. They are the ones that are putting their lives on the line for you. They will protect your family.
But until you experience that from an individual point of view and from a family point of view, you really don't know what that is. It is hindering. It is restricted. It is a cocoon, and there are times you just want to break out of it, but you can't.
That was the most difficult thing for a personal level of being vice president."
He also said, "You will always miss [the vice presidency]."
