Can anyone name an intelligent Republican off the top of their heads?

[cayuga]

Any Nobel Prize winners, Rhodes scholars, summa cum laudes from Harvard? How did the stupidest people on earth become so powerful? Is corruption more powerful than intelligence?

[Mabus]

1. Abe Linclon

That's about it.

[Skittles]

5. Abe would not be a repuke in the current sense of the word

not at ALL

[Mabus]

22. I agree

but his name was the first one that popped into my wittle head. ;)

[leftofcool]

28. He really wasn't that smart

He wasn't dumb either, just not book smart.

[coalition_unwilling]

36. Lincoln was self-taught but

plenty "book smart." In fact, I'd wager that Lincoln read more Shakespeare than 90% of the posters here at DU have.

[rucky]

2. That Buckley guy.

He sounded real smart, but I couldn't understand him the way he talks through his teeth.

[Greyhound]

38. He was my first thought too. William F. and his "harvard" accent.

Proof that intelligence does not guarantee wisdom, though I suppose from his perspective and his purpose he may have been right. It certainly has worked out well for his species.

[cloudbase]

3. George Will. Pat Buchanan.

I don't often agree with them, but they're pretty smart guys.

[leftofcool]

29. Pat B is brilliant

an extremely brilliant historian. I don't agree with him all the time either but he is smart

[AtomicKitten]

4. Urban Dictionary: "Smart Republican" is an oxymoron.

1. smart republican

an oxymoron all republicans are stupid
there is no such thing as a smart republican

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smart+republican

[Joe the Liberal]

6. Hmmmmm.....

nope cant think of any, probably because they don't exist, or died off long ago and now only the idiots are left standing.

[DonEBrook]

7. Um, "anyone" would not have "their heads".

;-)

[cayuga]

9. You got me.

I must be a Republican.

[DonEBrook]

11. Naw, I'm just a grammar Nazi.

:D

[kansasblue]

8. Senator Hagel (R-NE)

[Frisbee]

10. Abe Lincoln was the first...

Teddy Roosevelt may have been the last.

Seriously though, there are some, though they are few and far between. But of those few, I question their reasons for being one, maybe it's because they're wealthy and greedy as hell. Maybe it's just because they know that that is where they people with the money tend to be, so they figure they have a better chance of riding their coattails there. The VAST majority though seem to be ignorant and/or evil bastards.

[Botany]

12. Dwight D Eisenhower .... Supreme Allied Commander WW II

My Dad ... OSU, Purdue, and PhD Columbia (Political Science summa cum laudes)
Taught @ University of Mass Amherst, University of Washington,
Allegheny College, and Ohio State
Combat Vet Korea
Worked @ the RNC & Brookings

Margaret Chase Smith .... Senator From Maine

Charles Percy .... Senator from Illinois

Eve Dirkson ..... Senator from Illinois

Dave Thomas .... Founder Wendy's (Gave millions to charity)

Dick Nixon .... Kept Russia from launching a nuclear strike against china ( that would have changed this
planet forever)

Teddy Roosevelt

Henry Ford

F.A. Seiberling

Woody Hayes

Paul Volcker .... I think??? Obama is smart and likes him

No one party or group has the lock on smarts

[valerief]

13. Pat Buchanan. Batshit crazy sometimes, but smart. nt

[Jazzgirl]

14. Hmmmmm.......

thinking

[BrklynLiberal]

15. In Ny we had Javits and Keating. Not the worst guys around.

Guess they might both be Dems today.

[emilyg]

16. George Will - very smart.

[leftofthedial]

17. if there was such a thing (wwhich there is not)

the laws of physics would require a black hole at its center.

[irish.lambchop]

18. David Gergen?

Not sure of his bona fides, though.

[sofa king]

19. Kissinger is a smart guy.

And, though he sullies the very name of the award, he is a Nobel Prize winner.

Smart + Evil = Diabolical, and there is no shortage of diabolical Republicans.

[cayuga]

20. Out of millions, there are what? three?

Three contemporary Republicans who are regarded as intelligent? Ouch.

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. Poppy Bush

There are many names I could call that bastard, but (unlike his son) "stupid" isn't one of them. You don't get away with a lifetime of treason if you're a dumbass. (Unless you're his son and have a non-dumbass like Cheney covering your tracks)

[cayuga]

24. That's like saying OJ is real smart...or was until last week.

I am a firm believer that time wounds all heels. Poppy got where he is cuz he knows where the bodies are buried....especially since he was the one who buried them.

[Bigmack]

40. Cunning is different than smart. nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

23. One of my co-workers at my library!

She's 80 years old (I mean young), and she does a lot of shelving. She has to life books that weigh more than her. God bless her! O8)

[robertpaulsen]

25. Alive? Fuck No. n/t

[underpants]

26. I try to keep Republicans off my head

and out of it too

[Sabriel]

27. My mom

She's very intelligent. That's why I just don't get it.

[ashling]

30. Thank God I don't have any Republicans on the top of my head

that would be awfully annoying.

[conspirator]

31. Colin Powell nt

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. Olympia Snowe

[FLAprogressive]

34. ditto. And Lincoln Chafee nt

[TheKentuckian]

33. They have a few brains among them but the better question is

to name a Republican that is not either stupid, evil, or apparently recovering.

[mondo joe]

35. Karl Rove, evil genius. The problem isn't that there are no intelligent Repubs, or even

not enough of them.

The problem is the deficit of ethical Republicans.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

37. Bobby Jindal

[LBJDemocrat]

39. Eisenhower, Nixon, Lincoln, Goldwater

To name a few.

They're harder to find these days, but I'd say Pat Buchanan qualifies, despite his obvious bigotry against certain segments of the American population.

[opihimoimoi]

41. Warren Rudman comes to mind...he served only 2 terms but he impressed many with his

knowledge and wit...he was one of the better ones of which only 2 or 3 exist...

[Juche]

42. Define intelligent

Newt Gingrich was a college professor. Michael Savage has a PhD from Berkeley. Bill O'Reilly has a graduate degree from Harvard.

But all of them are totally divorced from reality and not very good at real life intelligence. Savage rails against the homosexual mafia. O'reilly is self explanatory. etc.

[Odin2005]

43. William F. Buckley.

Ike Eisenhower
Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette.
The late MN governor Elmer Andersen