Just how stupid are many Republicans?

Sounds like their "ACORN" platform has bounced back in their faces. I believe the news media are calling it ACORNGATE.

Theyll put up Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin to demonstrate their fierce support of anti-intellectualism

Good 'un, fm. Love that phrase.

That's just about as intelligent as believing that Bush was behind 9/11.

Oh, a Daily Kos poll. That's great.

I'm glad to see that we finally agree on something.

They commissioned the poll, but the group who performed it (Research 2000) is a professional firm.

I would invite you to look at the questions and the cross-tabs if you have a complaint about the poll, rather then attempt to damn it because a Dem group commissioned it.

Cycloptichorn

Very.

Did I complain? Did I damn it? I'm sure it's worth the paper it's printed on.

Looked like a complaint/dismissal to me.

Cycloptichorn

wouldn't a more realistic question be

just how many republicans are stupid?

i'd guess it's about the same percentage as every group of people

100%

I understood that anti-intellectualism is popular in the US. I read Mr Hofstadter's book on the subject. And there are the evolution threads to consider. Leaving my self aside, as I do, anti-intellectualism is endemic on those threads. It is described in some detail in Mr Veblen's book The Higher Learning in America. And Mr Salinger's side-swipes at it.

Intellectuals are playful creatures. In a "get-up-and-go", upthrusting "noses-to-the-grindstone" economy intellectualism as a movement is no good.

Kids are intellectuals whether they are playing in a sand pit or stirring up the **** in the potty with Mom's wooden baking spoon. The one that's been handed down.

Education is designed to knock it out of them. It teaches them the common sense of "our heritage". As well it might. The US must do it best on evolutionary principles judged, at this time, as a success. Top Gun. Not the sort of evolutionary principles Mr Darwin understood, which are easy. He couldn't have imagined a billion dollars let alone flashing ten of them from New York to Tokyo with a submit button in 1/7th of a second.

Imagine, if you can, 301 million intellectuals in the US. The gas pumps would have to deliver to the Fair Sales Force guidelines correct to a milli-milli-milli gallon, (That sounds daft--A mixed imperial), and the ladies would all be in hiding seeing as they are all intellectuals.

And Mr Jindal is a Rhodes Scholar. And I hope you don't think that by asserting his anti-intellectualism you are laying claim to being an intellectual, your reverse invidious comparison trick, the RIC, because I'll back his intellectualism over your's any day of the week.

Spoken by someone who obviously hasn't put much study into the individual in question.

Cycloptichorn

Spoken by someone who consistently confuses his prejudices with facts.

I'll admit that Cyclo.

I was making a comparison from what I know of the statements and reported action of Mr Jindal and fm. I have already posted somewhere about Mr Jindal being a personification of the American Dream--rags to riches on hard work and nonce.

Elected Govenor of 4.5 million people and being touted as a future president and not yet 40 I gather. And a Rhodes scholar in case you need reminding already.

And you might read the evolution threads.

What has Mr Jindal said that suggests he's not an intellectual. You can only identify an intellectual when proof that they're not one is offered. As it often is.

There is another and not unimportant point raised by fm's original post on here. Original in the sense of first I mean. He obviously considers male and female intellectualism to be identical and, I'll bet my boots, also identical with himself and those who experience joy when reading his posts.

I stand by my earlier bet. I can see why certain areas might not wish to see Mr Jindal and Mrs Palin in the White House.

Spoken like someone who wouldn't know a fact if it slapped him in the face. You never met an assertion you couldn't forward and then get retroactively huffy about being called on.

Cycloptichorn

I'd agree, but instead of 'stupid', I'd use the term 'uninformed'. Pew Research published a survey a couple of weeks ago showing the Reps to be slightly better informed than Democrats, but not by much (although they did trounce the Dems on a question about Harry Reid, the leader of their own party LOL). Even Independents knew more than the Dems, again not by much.

The test is remarkably easy. I'd be surprised if most here didn't score well above average; actually, I'd be surprised if most here didn't get a perfect score. There are only 12 questions.

nice, not bad for a non american

12/12. Pathetic that anyone would miss any of those questions - though the one about Iraq/Afghanistan really could have gone either way.

Cycloptichorn

LOL, I heard from a few friends who missed the question on OIL!!!