Does Kavanaugh impress you as intelligent?

[Meadowoak]

[FarPoint]

1. Not even close to to being qualified...

To be a Supreme Court Justice.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Sneaky. In a self-survival sense.

But not what I'd call very smart. He certainly has zero emotional intelligence.

[GemDigger]

3. If he was intelligent it wouldn't be so obvious that he is trying to burn out the clock.

[rurallib]

4. Yes when he yells his answers - that always shows me intelligence

actually no - he seems pretty average

[uponit7771]

5. Not as intelligent as would like a judge to be

[Skidmore]

6. Mean and belligerent

a fixer, like Cohen.

[displacedtexan]

7. No.

Slimy little pompous twit.

[cwydro]

10. Not particularly, no.

[rzemanfl]

11. Privileged. n/t

[louis-t]

12. Emotionally unstable and whiny.

[Butterflylady]

13. Absolutely not!

An intelligent person would have controll over their emotions.

[trueblue2007]

14. no no no

[democratisphere]

15. deplorable dumb.

[bluestarone]

16. Only if compared to a TURKEY

And i'd have to give THAT some thought

[bluestarone]

31. LOL that's why i said i'd need to give it more thought

[NurseJackie]

17. Functional as a retail store manager. I can see him as a Best Buy district manager... AT BEST!!

[Books_Tea_Alone]

18. No way- his speech pattern is not in line with a Yale educated person

Eloquent speakers do not say “I worked my tail off, I was the captain of the basketballl team” and instead would say “I did well academically and excelled in athletics” or something to that effect. I heard lots of “dees” and “dos” from him instead of “these” and “those”. The way he refers to his high school and college friends as “Johnny D” etc is odd. I’m sure if the transcript of his testimony was run through a grade-level speech scale it would be right there with T.rump’s and nowhere near Dr. Ford’s

[KT2000]

19. Not at all

He will comb the legal cases to come up with the ruling the GOP wants. As David Brock said, he was the go-to guy for leaks and figuring out ways to embarrass the Clintons.

He is NOT a great legal mind but rather a social climber and sycophant - intelligent people do not allow their thinking to be guided by that.

[lunatica]

21. Not outside his social circle

Uber conservative people are not intelligent in terms of actually thinking. They are “intelligent” in terms of how smart they are in working against any and all equality for those who are different from them.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Now that you mention it, no, he doesn't.

He comes across like a player.

[NCjack]

24. Like he climbed the frat rat ladder. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

23. No. Dr. Ford would be a better judge.

[PA Democrat]

25. No. I think there is a social component to being a good jurist

that Kavanaugh is completely lacking.

A good judge not only can interpret the law but has the ability to show compassion and empathy. They can bring people with different view to a consensus. The are open-minded, patient and unbiased. They set personal feelings aside.

Kavanaugh gets a F. I don't care if he was first in his class. He is unfit.

[joshcryer]

26. No, he's a contrarian.

It's easy for him to sound smart when he's merely spouting a real time contrarian argument.

[torius]

27. He had a friend named Squee.

Didn't realize we were in Grease. (ok, there was no Squee in Grease, but something like that. Maybe it was Squiggy in Laverne and Shirley.

[DeminPennswoods]

28. No, nothing more than a political hack

Most likely a "dumb jock", too.

Look no further than his calendar, the junvenile handwriting and scribbling and doodling.

[JDC]

29. He really does not. He seems a bit thick to me

[OnDoutside]

30. An acquaintance of mine was a world class research and lecturing professor, but has been a

functioning alcoholic for decades. But for his wife, he'd be dead right now. Kavanaugh reminds me so much of him.

[hunter]

32. If he ever had any innate and exceptional intelligence it was too rarely exercised.

Use it or lose it, brains and brawn.

This guy lost it a long time ago.

There are children of privilege who discover the joys of intellectual exercise and strive to make the world a better place to the very best of their ability.

And then there are the crass, incurious fools who believe their high position in society a birthright.

Kavanaugh is a crass incurious fool. As such his intelligence, or lack of intelligence, is of no consequence. He is a venal, vain, and dissembling man who can bring no good to our Supreme Court.