Repig Pundits campaign for bush using military...

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www.townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/sf20040802
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Fear and loathing of President Bush was the dish of the day, served piping hot with a side of contempt to the Democrats assembled in Boston's Fleet Center. They unanimously agreed that he's not smart enough to be president.

This belief in his lack of smarts has captured a large following, similar to the conventional liberal wisdom that dogged Ronald Reagan across his eight years in Washington. Ronald Reagan as a simpleton, with a world view gleaned from fortune cookies...ETC

....George W. prefers to be underestimated because it keeps his challengers off guard. He's smart enough to know that much. When he prevails it drives his detractors mad.

..smarts - who has 'em and what they do with 'em - is particularly fascinating when it becomes the focus of debate in the presidential election. What kind of intelligence do we expect, or want, from a president? The Wilson Quarterly's summer issue poses the question: "Do Smarts Rule?" We discover that high intelligence is no guarantee of effective leadership.

John F. Kennedy, for example, had an IQ of 119, which is on the high end of normal. Richard Nixon scored an impressive 143. ETC.

JFK's modest IQ is considered just about right for presidential leadership, according to Dean Keith Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who studies such things. ETC..

The significance of IQ is controversial, but how a person exercises his intelligence is an important guide to what kind of leader he will make. ...Adlai Stevenson, "the egghead" whose language was sophisticated, intellectual and bookish. The public decided, probably correctly, that he would have been a wishy-washy leader.

John Kerry, like Jimmy Carter, gathers an abundance of detail and weighs facts with great intellectual deliberation, which his advocates say explains his willingness to change his mind. The Bush campaign characterizes Kerry's brooding methodical style as responsible for his flip-flops, split-hairs, straddles, waffles and doublespeak. He's squarely in the tradition of Hamlet, a man who can't make up his mind.

No one wants a hesitant leader who can't stand strong when the going gets tough and it's time for the tough to get going. No matter how many convoluted explanations John Kerry offers to defend why he voted for the war in Iraq and then voted against funding the troops, it sounds more like nonsense than nuance. When he felt the heat from Howard Dean in the primaries, he wilted.

"If you disagree with the senator on most any issue," President Bush famously needled him, "you may just have caught him on the wrong day." Leadership requires consistent direction and clarity of vision.
If John Kerry were president now, Saddam Hussein might still be presiding over his torture chambers and his acres and acres of mass graves; ETC.ETC...

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So again the voters will vote for the dumb guy. But he's not dumb, he is just a weasel, a natural junkyard car salesman.