My experience has been that the truth frequently is simple. Getting there, though, usually involves complexity. What I tell young lawyers working for me is that you have to enter the forest, but eventually you have to re-emerge, too. Lots of people of mediocre intelligence confuse complexity (and "nuance") with smarts. Like Kerry. Bush, on the other hand, grasps that the truth is going to be simple. He delegates the detail work to subordinates and reserves his energy for the big picture. Rather like a modern CEO.
Amen, and well put!
Their real problem, the way I see it, is that they fail to understand the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Intelligence is the capacity to process information. Wisdom is the ability to discern between good information and bad; between true and false; between right and wrong.
The left continues to underestimate President Bush for the same reason they lost battle after battle to President Reagan. What Reagan had, and what Bush has, is wisdom. However intelligent the leftists consider themselves, they lack wisdom and aren't able to recognize it in their opponents.