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| 2004-01-06 | ||
| credit to The Daily Dish for this tidbit, and EFL to get to the juicy parts By NEAL STARKMAN, GUEST COLUMNIST, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Millions of words have been written as to the motivations of voters. Particularly in close elections, as in the 2000 presidential contest, pundits and laypeople alike have speculated on why people voted for whom. The exit poll has been a major tool in this speculation. But the speculation misses the mark by far. It's increasingly obvious, for example, that none of the so-called theories can explain President Bush's popularity, such as it is. Even at this date in his presidency, after all that has happened, the president's popularity hovers at around 50 percent — an astonishingly high figure, I believe, given the state of people's lives now as opposed to four years ago... It’s the "Stupid factor," the S factor: Some people — sometimes through no fault of their own — are just not very bright. you mean democrats?
yup, gotta be talking about janeane gorillafalo and mike moore
Tarnation Ma! he’s talkin ’bout us REE-publikans! git ma shotgun, i’m goin ta Seeatul! You know these people; they’re all around you (they’re not you, else you would not be reading this article this far). They’re the ones who keep the puerile shows on TV, (oh, that evil evil foxnews; i’ve never seen a roomful of liberals watching ’Survivor’; oh, waitaminnit) who appear as regular recipients of the Darwin Awards, who raise our insurance rates by doing dumb things, who generally make life much more miserable for all of us than it ought to be. Sad to say, they comprise a substantial minority — perhaps even a majority — of the populace. the worst part about being a neoconservative mouth-breather is the chapped lips Yes please, make sure your man doctor dean uses this a platform in his candidacy - "You people are so stupid that you need ME and my socialist government to protect you from yourselves!" | ||
| Posted by:4thInfVet |
| #19 Found this on Bros. Judd: "He was on a local Seattle radio show yesterday trying to defend his thesis. I only caught bits and pieces but it seemed that he seemed awfully testy and defensive and the leftists who called in to support him came off as 34 watt bulbs in a 100 watt lamp. Posted by Raoul Ortega at January 6, 2004 08:01 PM" |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-1-6 10:37:54 PM |
| #18 ...I'm Neal Starkman, Intellectual Giant. Back to you, Fred. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-6 10:31:26 PM |
| #17 I served briefly in the military (1972-73) and I have a four year degree. I am told I am very intelligent, but I walked away from the insanity of the left. Did I lose my intelligence? The problem is leftists like the columnist are filtering their views through their own prejudices, a perfectly valid thing to do in writing opinion. But to call roughly half the population that did vote for Bush (and may well do so again this year) too stupid to make a decision like a correct vote, seems to me to be in itself a stupid view, if you want to woo voters and people to your views. But of course, taking my views, this guy has got to be stumping for the right, that is, iffin' he takes the concept of cause and effect into consideration. Well, he didn't. And because he is himself too stupid realize it, he gets to watch the glorious smashing of the left (hopefully for good) in 2004 at the hands of voters. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-6 9:53:04 PM |
| #16 I find it amusing that he criticizes people who cannot trace "cause and effect". Ye he supports policies that are based on completely ignoring cause and effect, as in choice and responsiblity: i.e. you are responsbile for the consequences (effect) of your actions (cause). IF there is anything liberls liek him do its abdicate responsiublity, and deny effects even when the cause is plain. A few examples: 8 years of ineffectual actions in the face of terrorism -> 9/11, lower taxes -> more people have more of their own money -> better economy, less government regulation -> more innovation (c.f. internet). Got to love stupid pseudo-intellectuals like the moron who wrote the original article, who blow themselves up with their own words. Almost as good as the Paleo boomers who cook themselves in their own garage bomb making facility. Hoist by their own petard, indeed. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-1-6 8:19:55 PM |
| #15 So, Neal, you think voters need to pass an intelligence test in order to vote? May I suggest that we use the butterfly ballot? I'ts already been tested and proven that stoopid people (Dimocrats) can't figure it out. BTW, will we have to pay a poll tax too? My, don't you just love these progressives? |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2004-1-6 5:56:31 PM |
| #14 the worst part about being a neoconservative mouth-breather is the chapped lips... Funny, I thought it was the scraped knuckles from all that draggin'. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-1-6 5:43:20 PM |
| #13 Can you imagine the Donks having a seazure over this type of proposal. Might be fun to watch! Not really, at least anymore. Remember, for the last few years they've been saying that only those who have served in the military are allowed to comment on defense issues. Then you had them calling for a reinstatement of the draft... Given how reactionary they've been lately, I don't think they'd have any problem with literacy tests. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-6 5:40:15 PM |
| #12 Section 8, Plan 9 hmmmm... that equals 17 add the two different national champions USC & LSU and it equals 19. See? Always buy beef kosher and in units of 19, this will protect you from Dengue Fever. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-6 4:54:28 PM |
| #11 Querent, No I was referring to Section 8 and/or HUD (where the person pays a small fraction of the rent). Sorry for not making that clear. And I said that not Ptah :). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-6 4:12:51 PM |
| #10 "(i.e. rent or own a home w/o housing assistance) " said Ptah... uh oh... does that mean that accepting that HFA loan in order to buy my condo would have cost me my voting rights? B ) |
| Posted by: Querent 2004-1-6 4:05:10 PM |
| #9 Ptah, Ever see that [gawd awful] movie 'Starship Troopers'? One interesting facet of that movie is that people had to 'earn' citizenship (or was it the right to vote??) - it was not automatically given. By joining the armed forces or performing some communinty service you 'earn' the right to vote. Sometimes I think this is a good idea. If you have a JOB (or unemployment), pay for housing (i.e. rent or own a home w/o housing assistance) and PAY TAXES you get the right to vote - if you are on welfare or the (unearned) government dole you do not get the right to vote. Can you imagine the Donks having a seazure over this type of proposal. Might be fun to watch! Plan 9 from Outer Space - I have this on tape. Funny because it is so bad. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-6 3:50:33 PM |
| #8 The "Stupid Minds" line from Ed Wood Jr's classic piece of schlock "Plan 9 From Outer Space" http://www.torget.se/users/m/mwrang/stupid2.wav |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-1-6 3:26:50 PM |
| #7 Hmm, a capital idea! But why a written test, on which anyone, including the test givers, could cheat? Remember the Literacy tests in the Old South? Do we want to turn back the clock THAT far? We MUST be more practical, no? Sooooo... Why not establish that anyone capable of holding down a job, earning cash, paying taxes, and being able to barely survive on what's left after paying the taxes liberal mooks like this demand that we pay, and avoids bankruptcy after suffering all this cr*p, is clearly intelligent enough to survive in a modern society, and so should vote for leaders of that same modern society? Kick everybody off the voting records who's been on welfare within, ohhh (checks the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act), 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election! What? You welfare mamas wanna vote? WORK, OR GO ON A LOOONG DIET! |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-1-6 3:24:44 PM |
| #6 sounds like he's auditioning for a highly-placed spot in the EU bureaucracy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-1-6 3:15:54 PM |
| #5 "regular recipients of the Darwin Awards" is good. Stupid, but good. Anybody have more than one? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-1-6 3:04:38 PM |
#4 As I blogged about this guy yesterday.Lefty loons like this guy want to take your God-given free will away. They want you to understand that you are too stupid to make good choices, so they will make them for you. Dictatorship by any other name is still dictatorship. They want you to know that life is so complex that most of you cannot grasp how it works. Neal will be glad to tell you what you should think and how you should act. He's educated, you know, smart, knows all those big words. Little words, like liberty, freedom, life, God, are just too stupid for him. I'm stupid. You're stupid. We're all stupid, except Neal. He's obviously an educator, so should recognize STUPID when he sees it. In the mirror every morning, for example. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-1-6 2:50:27 PM |
| #3 It nice to know that there are still people who are able to think great thoughts. So that I may follow. As I'm easily lead. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-1-6 2:49:05 PM |
| #2 An intelligence test eh? Why I seem to remember another society type that those showed up in. Anyone else remember the ol "Jim Crow" laws? :P |
| Posted by: Val 2004-1-6 2:47:04 PM |
| #1 I don't have a solution to this problem. To claim I did would belie my previous arguments. But I do have some modest suggestions that might provide a start for discussion: an intelligence test to earn the right to vote; a three-significantly-stupid-behaviors-and-you're-out law; fines for politicians who pander to the lowest common denominator and deportation of media representatives who perpetuate such actions. It's well past time that people confront this issue No what this guy is proposing is that we have an 'test' to earn the right to vote. Obviously (according to his previous comments) if you don't think Bush is an complete imbicle and/or that the war in Iraq is based on lies and is a quagmire you would be too stupid to be allowed to vote according to his definition of 'stupidity'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-6 2:40:06 PM |