Homemade canisters and sarin gas without stabilizers??

[Igel]

52. Think it through.

He might be misinformed. This information might be wrong so he's actually well informed.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that this evidence is right and known to be true.

In that case, Kerry is one of two things.

He's stupid, for not accepting the "true" evidence. You can be a good person and stupid.

Or he's craven and immoral for just doing his job--the Nurnberg defense--when he ought to know better. You can be a smart person and be corrupt and immoral.

A stupid but good person can find a useful and productive role in society.

A smart but immoral person is a danger to society.

Given the choice, I'd rather say Kerry was stupid but good than intelligent and craven.

In the end, I'd prefer smart and moral. I'm not going to rule out stupid and craven, however. Such things take years of analysis to rip aside what handlers and keepers create to reveal the real politician. Mostly, though, they just turn out--pretty much all of them--to be only moderately smart and, at best, only moderately moral. They all turn out to be driven by ambition.