> This is a myth created by the media that Republican or conservative
> political leaders are invariably stupid whereas liberals/Democrats are
> brilliant.
actually, that's no myth... science has proven that the conservative mindset
is often incapable of higher level abstract thinking....
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2007/09/20/liberal-conservative-brain-diff.../
"The work grew out of decades of previous research suggesting that political
orientation is linked to certain personality traits or styles of thinking. A
review of that research published in 2003 found that conservatives tend to
be more rigid and closed-minded, less tolerant of ambiguity and less open to
new experiences."
> When Bill Clinton as a campaigner and president had a near-genius I.Q.
> which
> would be about 145. Hillary was also brilliant. But no college they
> attended, to my knowledge, has ever published their I.Q. scores which they
> have on file. In my academic career I must have been given at least five
> or
> six separate I.Q. tests and remarkable the test score was almost always
> the
> same. The deviation was never more than one point.
>
> Emmett Tyrell Jr. who wrote the the biography "The Boy Clinton", was a
> college associate of the Clintons and states that both Bill and Hillary
> were
> just mediocre scholars and were helped in their educations by the lower
> academic standards of the '60s and '70s. Bill Clinton got a Rhodes
> Scholarship through his liberal
> Arkansas mentor Democrat senator William Fulbright but the Rhodes
> scholarships are almost always awarded to liberals and the studies are
> "mickey mouse".
> Even then, Clinton didn't finish the course of study.
>
> Eisenhower was stupid when he was president as was Ronald Reagan. Jimmy
> Carter and Adlai Stevenson were again very liberal and "brilliant".
>
> A 'Book Excerpt tilted "Mind Wars" from Peter Schweizer's "Makers and
> Takers" today's National Post asks the question "Why does the media
> continue to buy into the myth of ignorant conservatives and enlightened
> liberals? Schweizer points out that the much maligned George Bush has an
> I.Q. in the 120s slightly higher than John Kerry's. JFK's was only 117 but
> the media looked upon Kennedy as being brilliant. Also Kennedy was a very
> poor speller.
>
> Bush does not speak well. But good speakers are often not very clever,
> like
> FDR.
lol... now this is a myth perpetrated by an imbecile whom clearly hasn't a
clue that such is impossible... one's speaking ability is a function of
one's intelligence... bush sounds like a moron simply because he is... and
only a moron would take more than five seconds to figure this out...
> We are now hearing that Barack Obama is incredibly intelligent. But
> Americans should have the right to know what his I.Q. really is. We could
> be
> in for a surprise.
>
>
>
>
http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=693436
>
> --
> The sin of nearly all left wingers from 1933
> onwards is that they have wanted to be anti-Fascist without being
> anti-totalitarian.--George Orwell
>
