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In reply to the discussion: Saxby Chambliss has announced that he is retiring from the Senate [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)"Stupid" is not and should never be a virtue, or a requirement for membership in a political party, and yet it is practically both of those things among Republican candidates.
As we here see every day, one cannot be both moral and clever inside the GOP: they are mutually contradictory. There will never be a brilliant and ethically grounded Republican of the same caliber as President Obama, for example, because that person was already savaged and driven away years ago.
So the only two kinds of Republicans we really see any more are either clever and amoral, or stupid and puffed up with a stupid person's goat-herder morality--which I would argue is worse than being amoral because it guarantees that unelected amoral people will be those managing the stupid candidate (ahem, GWB).