The “Ted Cruz is smart” trap: Why this garbage is false — and dangerous (Preemptive Palin on him?)

Salon ^ | July 28, 2014 | Nathan Robinson

[GraceG]

“He” looks like Rachael Maddow with a different set of glasses..... Maybe this is what Rachel Maddow wears for his night job....

[Captainpaintball]

That assessment, spoken about anybody, should be convincing enough evidence for shallowness of mind. Can there be such thing as a learned person who has discovered nothing new since freshman year?

Mr. Robinson has a point there.

In fact before he went to college, Nathan has NO idea how to "felch" or how to properly give a "blumpkin"...

Now he can! And does with regularity!

[Usagi_yo]

Haters gotta hate.

[nathanbedford]

Did you know that General of the Armies Dwight Eisenhower, the man who successfully managed the greatest amphibious invasion in history and followed that up with the successful "Crusade in Europe" all the way to the unconditional surrender of Germany, was really too stupid to be president of the United States?

I was solemnly assured of this reality as a young child in two election campaigns by supporters of Adlai Stevenson who was regarded by every liberal who drew breath to be light-years smarter than poor bumbling "Ike," the general who could seldom contrive to put together an intelligible English sentence.

Why do liberals persist in arguing that all Republican candidates for the presidency are stupid (with the exception of Richard Nixon who was evil) while all Democrat candidates border on genius? Are you old enough to remember that John F. Kennedy was a speed reader who could read a book in an hour? I remember that, I also know that it was false. Nixon, actually, was a man possessed of a much higher IQ than John F. Kennedy. We were told that Presidents Ford, Reagan and both Bushs were really not very bright, in fact quite stupid. But Barack Obama is a near genius who dazzles his staff and administration with his brilliance and in fact is so intelligent that the presidency bores him. Likewise, Bill Clinton knew the details of matters better than his briefers. So the man who was stunningly intelligent was stupid enough to endanger his presidency and his country by being fellated under the Presidential Desk and masturbating into the oval office Annex sink.

Why liberals behave this way is obvious from Bill Clinton, liberals put little or no value in a candidate's character, they cannot after all if one looks at the characters of their elected presidents post-World War II:

John F. Kennedy: pathological womanizer, cynic, drug abuser;

Lyndon B. Johnson: indiscriminate womanizer, corrupt, demagogue;

William Jefferson Clinton: pathological womanizer, rapist, serial abuser of women, proven by his own DNA to be a perjurer, corrupt, demagogue;

Barack Obama: Liar, communist, race baiter, hater of America.

Unable to present candidates who can run on their character, the left resorts to fantasies about their candidates' intellects and to traducing the intelligence of their opponents such as we see in this article concerning Ted Cruz.

But there is a deeper more visceral need in leftists to exaggerate the quotient of intelligence one way or another depending on the political affiliation of a candidate and it has to do with a whole series of psychological needs of liberals.

First, Dennis Prager is right, our politics are influenced by our judgment whether man is essentially good or not. That decision, usually quite unconsciously made, comes as a direct result of whether we believe in God or not, especially the Judeo-Christian concept of God. Liberals overwhelmingly do not believe in God and they substitute a fixation on pseudoscience which they proclaim to be actual science. In a world without God, man is God and character, as defined to be alignment with God's Order, is irrelevant and certainly inconvenient.

Second, the the saying is quite correct, the man who does not believe in God will not believe in nothing, he will believe in anything. This vacuum has to be filled and the leftists' psyche invariably fills it with a superhero. That is why failed socialism is never blamed on the inherent fallacies of the doctrine but on the wrong socialists being in charge. This time our candidate is the right socialist and socialism at last will be properly managed. Hail Caesar!

Third, the nonbeliever is a nonbeliever because he is a God player and to believe in God inconveniently gets in the way of this lust for infinite power. The left ceaselessly whores after the new Messiah who will play God on a grand scale. To leftists bent on social engineering, society is nothing more than a giant Skinner box and the man in control of the levers in that box controls society. They want a godlike player to play God.

In the service of this soul sickness, leftists have no regard for matters of character and are quite free to lie and slander in order to elect their Messiah who will finally bring us utopia. We see this phenomenon egregiously at play in this article by this puerile author.

It was a huge mistake to outlaw spanking in schools.

[KevinB]

Longtime Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz has said that Cruz was one of the smartest students he ever taught. I guess the dipsh*t who wrote this article knows more than Alan does.

[jonrick46]

Robinson cites Senator Ted Cruz’s assertion that “states with gun control have the highest murder rates” has “earned him a rating on PolitiFact of 10 falsehoods for every one truth.” The murder rates will occur irrespective of the amount of gun control. Even if a gun control law reduced firearm-related murders and suicides, it would mean nothing if people intent on committing murder and suicide achieved their objectives by other means. Also, the statistics report all gun violence and do not differentiate deaths due to self defense. In states with the highest gun ownership, the use of guns to commit violence is discouraged. Washington, D.C. has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. And yet again, the gun murder rate remains dramatically high, the highest in the United States in fact.

This tells us that Senator Ted Cruz has looked at the gun-control issue with a perceptive mind. It is Nathan J. Robinson who failed to look at the statistics with a perceptive mind.

[hearthwench]

Most likely beat up in school, got a lot of “Awahnee (Jr. high school) shampoos”, and the school narc (tattletale).

Looks like he constantly whines and sneers.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Girl?” Hahahahaha!

[Joe Miner]

OMG, it’s worst than I thought, anyone want to bet he is queer as a 3 dollar bill?

[Fresh Wind]

Yeah, I’m gonna run right over to Amazon to buy his book.

[trebb]

Moe Howard calls Albert Einstein and idiot....

[driftless2]

This mope quotes Bertrand Russell about how the stupid are cocksure about their own intelligence while the truly intelligent are filled with doubt. Reading this article by this arrogant, progressive, egotistical, cocksure, little dweeb leaves me little doubt as to who is intelligent and who is not.

[DoodleDawg]

Yet it is hard to imagine a plausible one that does not include large measures of critical thinking and self-scrutiny. As Bertrand Russell put it, it’s always a central problem that “the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Intelligence necessitates doubt, for doubt is the origin of wisdom. One whose mind is clamped shut cannot be intelligent...

It's official. Obama is a flaming idiot.

[Sirius Lee]

Ultimately, though, the most damning evidence against Cruz’s intelligence may actually come from his law school roommate and college debating partner, David Panton. “Ted’s views today politically are almost identical to when I met him,” Panton said. “There’s nothing he says today that I didn’t hear in college.” That assessment, spoken about anybody, should be convincing enough evidence for shallowness of mind. Can there be such thing as a learned person who has discovered nothing new since freshman year?

It's funny, this paragraph coming from a leftist twink who's libtard politics have changed not one iota since college. A tranny on full autoparrot denigrating the intellect of another - it's too rich.

[DaxtonBrown]

Bwahahaha. The picture says it all. The type of guy who gets sand kicked in his face by the 98 lb weakling.

[mosesdapoet]

Salon where the efete meet to bleat after a few at the saloon.

[ScottinVA]

Does anyone outside the leftard echo chamber even READ Salon?

[Politicalkiddo]

What a fool. It bothers me when cocky young college grads, who know nothing of the real world, think they are qualified to judge the intelligence of someone who is older and has not only proved his worth, but has been praised by his professors for his intelligence. I believe that Cruz has even argued cases in front of the SCOTUS. What has this sniveling weasel ever done worth mentioning? His alma mater means nothing, if Obama is anything to judge by. I bet this infant believes that Obama has claim to intelligence, despite the lack of evidence to substantiate this; evidence of which Cruz has much. This is why the voting age should be raised to 25 at the very least.

[Red Boots]

Uh, oh! The liberal meme that conservatives are dumb has been disrupted! Whatever shall they do?

[Red Boots]

Uh, oh! The liberal meme that conservatives are dumb has been disrupted! Whatever shall they do?