McCain Wants Bush to Be Quayle

During the 2006 Congressional campaigns, I wrote about the way the Republicans used the unpopular and disgraced current president, George Bush, as a Dan Quayle look-alike, scheduling him to rally the troops in the smallest, most out-of-the-way Republican strongholds.

It appears that the McCain Campaign wants to do the same thing. According to the New York Times:

. . . look for Mr. Bush to make solo appearances on behalf of Mr. McCain before evangelicals and in Republican pockets across the country, and to campaign in places where there are important races for the House and Senate, like Idaho and Kansas, which will not be critical destinations for the Republican nominee.

Maybe McCain will have a rule about W not making appearances in towns larger than five hundred. That way, Bush won't embarrass him so much.