Just as we were getting overloaded with Y2K stuff, the Dan Quayle crowd came up with this battle cry: Q2K! Yes, it was Quayle 2000 — and we emphasize was.

"Starting in this town, in this place, at this hour, we will fight back," Mr. Quayle said forcefully, prompting cheers of "Q2K!" from about 6,000 foot-stomping Hoosiers in the gymnasium of Huntington North High School, where he graduated in 1965.

"Prosperity without values is no prosperity at all," Quayle told a cheering crowd of more than 5,000 at his former high school. Fireworks, rock music and bellows of "Q2K!" made his the most festive presidential announcement speech so far this year.