Why do republicans love stupid people?

[AnArmyVeteran]

Republicans love Beck, Bush & Bachmann. They like Palin, Limbaugh, Coulter, Quayle, Rumsfeld, Keyes, Hannity, Savage and O'Reilly. They love all the stupid people on Faux Noise, in the Heritage Foundation and everyone in right wing 'think tanks'.

All of the above have varying degrees of stupidity. They all make stupid remarks designed to manipulate even dumber people.

Republicans don't seem to like any leader who is extremely intelligent. Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama are all extremely intelligent men, but right wingers hate them all. They prefer people who range from virtual vegetables to dumb asses. The last reasonably intelligent republican president was Nixon. But today's mutant right wing would reject Nixon because even he wouldn't be radical enough.

BTW, I am the author of the Presidential IQ Study almost ten years ago. I created a fictitious 'think tank' in Scranton, Pennsylvania called the Lovenstein Institute. I gave Bush an IQ of 91 and Clinton an IQ rating of 182. I wanted Clinton's IQ to be double Bush's IQ. My article was so believable it was picked up by many news organizations and spread around the world. I was especially happy to see it printed in European countries just as GW Bush was making a tour there. My article even tricked Garry Trudeau into making a Doonesbury cartoon from my spoof article.

From Wiki:
Criticisms and controversies
In August 2001, Trudeau fell for a report by the fictional "Lovenstein Institute" that stated that President George W. Bush had the lowest IQ (91) of any president in the past 50 years, and that former president Bill Clinton's IQ was exactly twice that of Bush. After mentioning it in Doonesbury, Trudeau made a public retraction."

Looking back, I know I was being far too kind to Bu$h, because his true IQ couldn't be as 'high' as 91 with his lifetime of being an alcoholic and because he wasn't born with very much intelligence to being with.

[Nite Owl]

1. I can't agree that these people are

stupid. They probably don't believe most of what they say. They are actors and the people who follow them are the stupid ones for not seeing through it, not questioning it. They take advantage of this----all the way to the bank. It's all about money to them. Dumb people are just another market to be exploited.

[Timbuk3]

3. So true

[Timbuk3]

2. A legitimate question

Another version would be, "Why do stupid people love Republicants?"

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[niyad]

12. are you mensa material?

[ClassicLiberalRoss]

18. Am I Mensa material? Ha! Absolutely not...

-- a fact that would appear to make me more than qualified to be Vice President or Speaker of the House! Honest to God, where do we FIND these people?! Did we learn nothing from Dan Quayle?

Apparently not. So let us all please join hands and say a prayer for the continued good health of our Chief Executive. Amen.

[Salviati]

5. Because other than the obscenely wealthy, who else would vote for them?

The current crop of teabaggers, however, represent what I believe is a realization of what a good scam the republicans have been running the last few decades by professional grifters who are moving in to fleece a whole new world of marks...

[Versailles]

6. A thought on this...

After being a target for bullies when I was in elementary/middle school and then spending nearly 10 years in the education field, I've noticed a trend. Stupid people are scared of intelligence (my guess is because they don't understand what is being discussed) and tend to band together. Hence the famous, "He's the kind of guy I'd have a beer with" reason for voting for Bush. Not to mention that to make themselves feel better about being less intellectually capable, they bully the intelligent people. I've seen it time and time again. It was the empathetic, sensitive, intelligent children that were terrorized by the bullies. So to answer your question, the Republicans love stupid people because they are the biggest baddest bully on the block and thus become the "leader" for all the stupid sheep.

But I don't know anything, I'm just one of those liberal elitists who taught in attempts to brainwash American children into being socialist drones....

[Initech]

7. Do republicans love stupid people? Is Ed "Too Tall" Jones too tall?

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Truly intelligent people laugh at the repukes. Truly intelligent people ask questions

and do not blindly follow their "leaders" while acting against their own best interests.

Stupid people are the perfect audience for the crap that the repukes and their talking heads spew every day.
They follow like lemmings...over the edge of the cliff to their own destruction....while the manipulators step aside
and laugh while they watch them all go over the edge.

[Initech]

11. That's part of the reason why our media sucks.

You could make the case that yeah they've got our best interests, blah blah blah. But the simple fact is that the GOP follows the very tenants of modern religion: preach and judge. They fill the media with people who will bend over backwards to fit their every demand, then they look for scapegoats: illegal immigrants, gays, militants, you name it. That's what Beck and Limbaugh do on a nightly basis to their millions of brain dead followers.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Bingo! Got that absolutely right!!

[Initech]

9. Do republicans love stupid people? Is a knife fight with a blind gorilla a bad idea?

[AsahinaKimi]

14. Do republicans love stupid people?

WAS ABE LINCOLN HONEST?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdy3orO6tQA
(Sorry, I just love this Geico commerical..)

[Initech]

15. Do republicans love stupid people? Can Chuck Norris produce a mean roundhouse kick?

[AnArmyVeteran]

24. LOL!

[givemebackmycountry]

10. Because stupid people love Republicans.

Duh!

[Contrary1]

16. That's an easy one...

It's because "A fool and his money are soon parted".

[Mimosa]

17. Hon, when are dems going to IGNORE repiglicans and support the best of our own?

[applegrove]

19. If they get dumb people like Palin or Steele to talk the GOP narrative

they will appeal to the uneducated who will relate to the simple message and also empathize with Palin/Steele when the west coast elites slam said pundits for being uninformed. Then the GOP has them and keeps them glued to the GOP narrative. Then said uneducated people vote against their own best interest and vote to repeal taxes and repeal regulation for the rich people.

[demigoddess]

20. because some day the republican propagandists will convince

them to vote in a monarchy or a dictatorship. They are just waiting until they have enough idiots in congress and the supreme court to pass it for some reason, possibly a never ending war or terrorist threat. Or perhaps a disaster that just needs a king or dictator to solve.

[3waygeek]

21. Brilliant!

The correlation between stupidity & conservatism was noted by John Stuart Mill in 1866. BTW, based on an analysis of his writings, Mill's IQ is estimated to have been 200.

[B Calm]

22. I'm not saying all republicans are stupid, but most stupid people are republicans.

That's a fact!

[old mark]

23. Link to "IQ's of Famous People" - Bush II gets a 125 IRL, while every Democrat outdoes him...

Pretty interesting...Link:
http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous-people.html


I don't vouch for the accuracy or validity of this, but compare the Dems to the GOPers and draw your own conclusions...if you are smart enough....
JFK and Agnew are the exceptions that prove the rule here

(My score is equal to that of an old female movie star!!!!)

mark

[Tsiyu]

25. Because they identify with stupid

Republicans are intellectually lazy, which is why they have to have all the Hate Talk Radio blared at them 24/7 or they might forget today's talking point from Rush.

They loved Reagan. Like the escaping Israelites in the old testament, Repukes want a "KING" to tell them what to do and how to think and a "DADDY" who will make everything safe for them to be assholes.

BTW your "Institute" cracked me up.

Kudos for that! Hope you're getting in some good swimming!

:hi:

[ladjf]

26. Stupid people are easy to manipulate. nt