Stupid is as Stupid Does

I haven't visited the Mahablog in some time, but there is an excellent post about the GOP advantage and I think it hits the nail on the head. The advantage...stupid is easy, smart is hard. I think the advantage all started with Reagan's "quips". They were funny and easy to understand. You didn't need to think much at all. "There you go again". In "rightieland", Mahablog points out that being smart and analytical is just boring.

But, here is how Mahablog sees the conservative way of doing business:

Now, let’s think about that last sentence. To me, weighing, analyzing and explaining issues are inseparable from “confronting” them. You have to understand an issue thoroughly before you can deal with it wisely, and sometimes the wisest course is to leave the dadblamed issue alone. In Rightieworld, however, “confronting” an issue takes these steps:

1. Identify what you want to do (e.g., attack Iraq; help your oil industry buddies increase their profits).
2. Find or manufacture a reason why you should do what you want to do.
3. Overwhelm news media and the American people with blustering rhetoric about why America must do what you want to do, accompanied by juvenile taunting of anyone who disagrees with your doing what you want to do.
4. Do the thing you want to do.
5. Spend the next several months or years denying or making excuses for the mess you made by doing what you wanted to do.
6. Eventually, when the mess turns out to be an undeniable failure — blame liberals.

Notice there is neither weighing nor analyzing in the list above. Weighing and analyzing is for academics and women. Red-blooded Americans take the hairy-chested, Neanderthal approach and just smash the hell out of whatever is bothering them.

Drill here, drill now to solve our energy problems. Attack the Russian imperialists for invading an independent nation. If you are sick, go to the emergency room. When was the last time an American President called upon the American people to achieve excellence - the moon race? We are still living off the benefits of that "race".

The USA seems to becoming increasing populated by citizens that believe being smart is being "elite". Electing smart people is French and dangerous. Voting for someone that actually wants to help you improve your life will result in the terrorists winning. No, it is so much easier to listen to quips and three word slogans, then vote for the same type of guy that wants to continue the policies of the last 7 years.