Republicans Don't Want Smart

[berni_mccoy]

If anything is to be learned from the lack of coverage by the Media of Sarah Palin's cheat sheet written on the palm of her hand with a marker, designed to help her remember talking points to a scripted Q&A session, it's that Republicans don't want a smart leader. We have to remember that they supported Bush, blindly and in lock-step for two terms. As long as their figure-head says the magic words: Christshun, Tax Cuts, 9/11 and God Bless America, that's all that really matters, other than they are a Republican, are white and are for endless war against non-Christian, non-white people.

Sound too harsh on the Republicans? I'm sorry, but that is exactly what the members of the party are saying when they question President Obama's birth certificate, make baseless claims about "librul" spending and "big-gov't" gonna take their guns and spend their hard-earned dollars. Never mind that's exactly what the Republicans have done, so much so, that they took this country to financial ruin by running one of the biggest government programs in the history of the U.S.: the Military, and not for defense, but for unnecessary war in Iraq that has contributed more than $3 trillion dollars to our National Debt.

No, if anything, Republicans want more stupid. They want people like Sarah Palin who can barely speak a sensible sentence. They want stupid people who believe, like the Teabaggers, even with all the evidence to the contrary, that Pres. Obama wasn't born in America or that he isn't a Christian. They want people to demonize their enemies so when something bad happens to them, they can cheer instead of having a normal human reaction. They want someone to tell them it's ok to be the animals they want to be, and that people like Palin actually represent them. Because if they can do that to members of another political party, fellow citizens of their own country, it will make them feel all the better about supporting the death and destruction of people half-way around the world.

No. Republicans don't want smart. They want validation of their flawed and fragile perspective. And that's something people like Sarah Palin can give them, and people like President Obama cannot.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The GOP gave us BUSH 2x and look at them results...the hometown boy couldn't hunt much less lead

with skill.

Dumb will give us more dismal failures

[Echo In Light]

2. George Carlin: "Who really controls America"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI

[Liberal In Texas]

3. As she herself said, that they want a CIC not a College Professor...

They want to be COMMANDED not EDUCATED. They are followers, lemmings.

K&R

[gratuitous]

4. Obviously

Just look at last week's poll commissioned by Daily Kos. Republicans believe that Obama wasn't born in the U.S., he's a socialist, and he's a racist who hates America. Surprisingly, the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity erupted in a furor over these results, blaming Kos for commissioning such a poll, and asking simple yes/no questions of self-identified Republicans. You'd think that Fox and its mouthpieces would be tickled pink that their message had penetrated their base so broadly, but evidently pointing out the obvious is strictly forbidden.

Republicans would much rather harbor their secret little (and not so little) prejudices without anyone tracking those down, putting them in so many words, or - probably worst of all - pinpointing where those prejudices originated.

[w8liftinglady]

5. oh,they want smart-just behind the scenes..Cheney and Rove are 2 examples

[Orsino]

6. Smart is counter-productive for a Republican agenda.

The GOP are working to dumb down the electorate, to misinform where we aren't contented to remain ignorant. Smart people wouldn't fall for it, so smart is an endangered species.

[Echo In Light]

10. Generally counter-productive for a corporate controlled police state masquerading as a rep democracy

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Absolutely true.

Which is why taking over the charter schools is not a good idea.

[phantom power]

8. One of the the best models of Conservative politics I ever read is that it's tribal...

It's not about good policy, or internal consistency, or anything reality-based. It's mostly about re-inforcing the tribal identity, which in turn is mostly accomplished by hating the appropriate non-tribal groups. Which include liberals, educated people and minorities.

[OHdem10]

9. You cannot manipulate the smart.

[berni_mccoy]

11. Generally, this is true, but I've seen some very smart people fooled.