Witness two of the most prominent examples: George W. Bush and Sarah Palin.
Bush can't string ten words together to make a coherent sentence on his own, and neither can Gov. Palin.
I watched parts of the interview Palin gave to Katie Couric, and it's embarrassing.
I think we can all agree that these two people are severely limited in intellect and therefore unqualified for high office.
But my question is this: Why do Republicans and right-wing nuts love these morons?
I can only think of a limited number of answers:
- Perhaps Republicans and right wingers are idiots themselves, so they choose people who are like them.
- Maybe they don't want to feel inferior, and anyone as smart as Adlai Stevenson or Barack Obama makes them aware of their shortcomings.
- Perhaps they want the country to fail. Maybe they believe in some misguided Biblical prophecy of Armageddon and they want to hasten it by choosing stupid leaders. "Bring it on," they may say.
- Perhaps this attitude goes along with the right-wing aversion to education. The right wingers seem to resent anyone with a graduate degree, or anyone who has ever read a book, or anyone who is capable of analyzing complex situations. "Don't confuse me with the facts" seems to be their attitude. They cling to their ideologies.
- Perhaps right wingers are basically followers. They seem to get their ideas from Faux News, a.k.a. Fox News, which of course isn't really news but opinion.
- Maybe they have all seen "Idiocracy" and that is their idea of the perfect nation.
- Maybe the right wingers don't realize that their leaders are morons. Maybe they look at George W. Bush and Sarah Palin and think these are two very smart people who have common sense and tremendous wisdom. If that is the case, God help us all. If McCain and Palin win, and he is incapacitated, we are in for a very rough time.
I guess we'll find out in November.
Wish us all the luck in the world.
We'll need it.
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