Reply #32: There is a difference between stupidity and willful ignorance.

[Straight Shooter]

People who are ignorant and proud of their ignorance are difficult subjects to educate. I think this explains bush's popularity with many people; he acts like an ignorant a** but got into the Oval Office. Some people are reassured by this, they think it means he has the "common touch" and therefore understands their lives, their needs, their wants, their pain.

Little Boots is craftier than that. At times he does show remarkable abysmal idiocy, but beneath that is cunning depravity, carefully hidden by Rove's stage management. From the first time I saw bush's photo in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, I had him pegged as a cold, cold man.