Reply #15: Well, Just Look At Ronnie Reagan

[MannyGoldstein]

Reagan was a dimwit living in a fantasy world - but, through looking and sounding the part, and the extreme stupidity of the electorate, he was able to become a two-term President. To this day, there are legions of Righties that believe an entire tableaux of revisionist history - that Reagan was fiscally responsible, that he stopped hordes of "welfare queens", that he single-handedly ended the Cold War, and so forth. All because he he looked and sounded the part.

Sadly, Americans are no smarter today than they were in the 1980's, and look and sound still prevail over accomplishment.

I think that Mrs. Clinton will get her ass kicked in the early debates - her e-lo-cu-shun voice added to her Illinois/Arkansas/NewYork accent will, as people have written, make her sound like a stern nun. However, she's as smart as she is evil, and she'll improve after a few outings - her voice will shift to its conversational mode, and she'll do a fine job of defending the Iraq War and her other glorious contributions to society. (I only hope that there's someone in the debates that can shred her the way her husband shredded Paul Tsongas - of course, unlike in the case of Tsongas, sticking to the truth about Mrs. Clinton will be quite sufficient.)