How "Dirty" Is Ben Quayle?

Image: TheDirty.com

Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and a Republican candidate for Congress from Arizona, has a new campaign ad out calling Barack Obama "the worst president in history."

Quayle, 33, wears a crisp white shirt as he looks into the camera and speaks in a monotone about his fear for America and his desire to "go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place."

But could this be the same young man who went by the name Brock Landers and helped Internet entrepreneur Hooman "Scott" Karamian build TheDirty.com, a site that revels in making offensive, rude, and outlandish comments about students from around 100 universities?

On Tuesday, Karamian (who uses the name Nik Richie on his site), outed Quayle. "There is no need to lie to the American people. I miss those days three years ago in my kitchen hanging out hungover thinking about what club douche bags in Scottsdale to target next," said the post headlined "Ben Quayle is Brock Landers."

Quayle initially denied having any connection to the site, which started life in 2007 and was called DirtyScottsdale.com. But on Tuesday, he acknowledged that he had posted some comments on the site when it started to help build traffic. His apparent goal? To find the hottest girls in Scottsdale to write about.

“This is hilarious this is being brought up," Quayle told a Phoenix TV station. "This is a smear. This is a smear on me from a smear website being pushed by a smear campaign.”

Quayle, a lawyer and founder of Tynwald Capital, a small business-support firm, is one of 10 people running for the Republican nomination to replace retiring Representative John Shadegg. The election is August 24.