Cadmium77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Agnew played the bad cop to Nixon's good cop if you can imagine that... Go look up his "nattering nabobs of negativism" speech.

Injustice360 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

LMAO!

Badgerinmaine (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Well, a lot of it was that he was a completely obscure governor who seemed lacking in the experience one would want as president (contrast his experience with Ed Muskie's in 1968, and there's no contest).

Xervosh23 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

One gets the impression that Agnew was the Dan Quayle of his day, but it would be helpful to have some idea upon what basis people derived such an (apparently) derisive attitude towards then-Gov. Agnew. Most people wouldn't have a very strong opinion about the Governor of Maryland, after all. He must have said or done something to inspire such feelings (all the Agnew quotes I know of are from after he took office).