What would happen if Kerry challenged Bush to an IQ test?

[Egalitarian]

Or a personality disorder battery (series of tests)?

Unfortantely BushCo would probably spin this as an elitist ploy and would never submit to it.

But, I relish the thought of what the results would show.

Imagine Kerry in a commercial saying, "Mr. Bush, many experts have conveyed serious concerns about your intelligence and psychological stability. There is a great need for intelligence and psychological stability for whomever presides over our great nation. I challenge you to a serious of tests to help American voters determine who might best lead this country. I anxiously await your acceptance or excuse."

[sir_captain]

1. IQ tests are stupid

but that said, Kerry would kick his ass

[Egalitarian]

2. I think they're pretty valueless too, but

most 'merikans don't.

[sir_captain]

4. quite true

we certainly do live in a culture that values its standardized testing. not that i think any more highly of the tracking systems employed in most of the rest of the world.

[Wapsie B]

3. The reich-wingers would spin it by

saying that the test was created by a bunch of pointy-headed, godless liberal elites. That the test was nothing more than a feeble attempt by the left to discredit the greatest mind to ever occupy the WH.

BTW, I agree with poster #1. IQ tests are only one of many ways of measuring IQ and intellect. The book,"The Seven Kinds of Smart" comes to mind.

[LDS Jock]

would he take it alone

or would cheney take it with him?

[Another Bill C.]

5. According to his Yale transcript,

Bush placed at the 71st percentile in his CEEB. This test at that time is considered a valid intelligence test by American Mensa which requires a score in the 98th percentile or better.

http://www.us.mensa.org/join_mensa/testscores.php3

[Mattforclark]

10. When you take into account the schooling he had available to him

that's not so impressive. It's not that impressive anyway, especially for someone who wants to be PRESIDENT.

[atre]

12. It's also pre-crack and booze

nm

[punpirate]

6. Bush would demand that...

... Diebold do the scoring....

Cheers.

[Zan_of_Texas]

7. Um, who would be scoring it?

Diebold? Or Arthur Andersen?

[Zan_of_Texas]

8. x-post

Hey punpirate! You just barely beat me to it! Great minds think alike.

[Mattforclark]

9. That would be great

hahahaha

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. He should challenge him to Irish Stand-down, or Rochambeau...

[OneBlueSky]

13. the proverbial "battle of wits with an unarmed opponent" . . . n/t

.

[Spirochete]

14. Bush would ask

how to spell IQ