Why do Repubs always pick the dumbest SOB in the kennel ?

[kentuck]

Anybody that says they are not embarrassed by George W Bush is either lying or their IQ is not high enough to recognize the difference? They love to ridicule "intelligence" but I would feel somewhat better with this present disaster if he could talk half-way intelligently - instead of sounding like someone swapping knives on the courthouse square. And now they are talking about putting up George Felix Allen as their nominee. I guess they don't want to get too far up the food chain?

[grasswire]

1. the answer lies in...

....Eric Hoffer's 1950s book "The True Believer" where Hoffer lists the characteristics of the ideal "leader" who will deceive the people.

Brains ain't at the top of the list. The prime attribute is the willingness to be ruthless, arrogant and hard, and stupidity is a useful attribute.

Find a copy.

[reichstag911]

3. It's available on Amazon...

...at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060505915/qid=1152292339/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-3344311-8695968?v=glance&s=books . Thanks!

[bowens43]

2. Stupidity plays well with their base.

Remember , the average IQ in the US is 100. About half of us are more intelligent then that and the other half are Republicans.

[LiberalEsto]

9. word! nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Because it works. See quote.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

[Mabus]

5. Have you ever heard of Job?

Basically the wealthy are acting like they are God. As a result, they see all the non-wealthy as their Jobs. This way they can subject the rest of us to various trials and tribulations, like having the dumbest among them be our leader. It's a variation of the movie "Trading Places".

[thereismore]

6. His middle name is Felix? That's great. Which word comes to mind

that begins with an "F"? How about that bumper sticker: "F 08"? Nice.

[thereismore]

7. Wikipedia entry: another torturer:

Charges by Allen's sister Jennifer

Allen's younger sister Jennifer Allen alleges in her memoir Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter that Allen sadistically attacked his younger siblings during his childhood. She claims that Allen held her by her feet over Niagara Falls; struck her boyfriend in the head with a pool cue; threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door; tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone; and dragged Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped someday to become a dentist . . . George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession--getting paid to make people suffer."

Is this better than sticking firecrackers up frogs' asses and blowing them up?

[lonestarnot]

8. Don't you humiliate dogs!

[kentuck]

10. I love dogs...

but some dogs are just dumb...Republican dogs maybe?

[lonestarnot]

11. Dogs can't help who pick them.

And maybe somebody just didn't spend enough time with them making them appear dumb.

[kentuck]

13. Evidently, neither can we....

I sure didn't pick Dubya.

[lonestarnot]

16. Ewww fuck, me either!

[npincus]

12. i like your subject line- tee hee

[EST]

14. I had thought the answer too obvious--

a rather limited selection to pick from. He is the "cream of the crop!"

[Cleita]

15. Because our shadow government needs a figurehead who is

easy to manipulate and who doesn't ask too many questions. Look at the roster, Ron Reagan, Poppy Bush I, Dan Quayle and now *.

Next who will it be? You can be sure it won't be anyone who knows the power of the President like McCain, and who might act independently. I believe this is why McCain will never get the support of the GOP.

[Gato Moteado]

17. ding ding ding....we have a winner......

you are exactly correct. corporate thieves want a puppet, not a thinker.

[kentuck]

18. I think you may be on to something there, Cleita...

They don't want a boat-rocker or a "progressive" or anyone that might change their present joy luck club.

[Cleita]

20. Not only that, look at whom they selected for the governor of

my state California, not the sharpest pencil in the box. Also, remember the talk about a special ammendment so that Arnold could run as President?

[leesa]

19. Easy. Because then they can pretend they are not devious and malevolent

Even people on this board buy into it..."Bush is too dumb to be responsible". Works like a charm. Worked for Reagan as well.

[warrens]

21. Stupid and/or evil

Republicans generally fall into one category or the other or both.

[ginnyinWI]

22. * has certain "skills".

He's a good performer: he has the ability to act the parts he needs to play, like the "good old boy", or the "compassionate, caring leader", or the "good, honest leader"--you get the idea.

He's a great liar--must have had a lot of practice to develop it to such a skillful level.

He's not smart, in the usual sense, but he has these other skills, just as savants can often become wonderful pianists. His brain's shortcomings make him more skilled in these other areas.


Unfortunately, he's on the wrong side of good policy, clinging stubbornly to a conservative ideology which doesn't work out in reality, and that makes him both wrong and destructive.

In other words, he's not dumb, he's evil.