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Turning Voters Into Morons
The American Spectator ^ | May 15. 2008 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Posted on 05/15/2008 1:28:15 AM PDT by Puzzleman

Readers of this column will recall that from time to time in covering an election cycle I have referred to a voting bloc that political analysts of more delicate sensibilities would rather not mention, to wit, the moron vote. It is a constituency composed of politically ignorant citizens who nonetheless feel very intensely about political issues once their respective demagogues have notified them of the issues, suitably transmogrified...

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinto; mccain; obama
Sad, but true.
1 posted on 05/15/2008 1:28:15 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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To: Puzzleman

Seems to me they’re turning ‘morons into voters’...


2 posted on 05/15/2008 2:03:51 AM PDT by do not press 2 for spanish
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To: Puzzleman
the moron vote

Thanks to our stellar public schools systems, just about everyone is a moron voter.

They are electing morons as well. I distinctly remember McCain saying something to the effect that he is not so good at economics and Hillary has referred to the workings of the Federal Reserve as something like magic.

Americans have dug themselves the hole they are in.

3 posted on 05/15/2008 3:19:40 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (You all are the slaves that you deserve to be. You people get the government that you deserve.)
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To: Puzzleman

Yup. Personally, I think Heinlein had it right in his ‘Starship Troopers’ book.

IE - if you want to vote or run for office, you’ve got to have served in the military. Or in other words, you’ve got to actually care enough about our nation that you’d be willing to die, if needed, to protect it.

That way, anyone as apathetic as the ‘moron’ vote wouldn’t be able to vote... as if they’re that apathetic about politics, they wouldn’t care enough to do what would be necessary to get the right to vote.


4 posted on 05/15/2008 4:05:56 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Puzzleman

Voters are not being turned into morons: they are already moronic and uninformed too.


5 posted on 05/15/2008 4:07:37 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Puzzleman
Eventually, we'll elect President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Probably won't take 500 years either...
6 posted on 05/15/2008 4:14:55 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Not Your Ordinary Crustacean.)
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To: Puzzleman

Most of the morons are college educated, some are extremely intelligent... As a matter of fact, it’s really not a matter of intelligence, but morality (or short of that, of common sense).

Let us never ever forget that the great geniuses who award the geniuses, the Nobel Prize committee, gave one of the unrepentant, still-murdering, state-treasury thieving inventors of modern terrorism the Peace Prize.

They don’t say “smart as the devil” for nothing.


7 posted on 05/15/2008 4:17:32 AM PDT by Mancolicani
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To: Puzzleman

That started happening when the NEA took over our schools.


8 posted on 05/15/2008 5:39:46 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Theodore R.

One of my very good friends has a saying that I find sad, but true: Average is pretty stupid.

He illustrates it with any number of stories from his sixth grade teaching days, but if you spend any time in public it becomes pretty clear how stupid most people are. It may sound elitist, but it is true. Fortunately it is curable. Unfortunately, few care about being cured.


9 posted on 05/15/2008 5:42:16 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Puzzleman

MORONS put the white Trash Clintons in office.


10 posted on 05/15/2008 6:19:22 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mancolicani
"common sense"

That would be more appropriate. Another thing is the simple fact that while people can be very intelligent in certain areas, they can be ignorant/stupid in a host of others. A glance at the statements by some people in the sciences who support Obama reveals troubling ignorance of economics (among a number of subjects). I would bet that is the one area where most Americans are the most ignorant. Like my near ninety year old pappy, they have no idea how free-market capitalism works.

11 posted on 05/15/2008 7:01:16 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Ann Archy
MORONS put the white Trash Clintons in office.

Twice, like dumb and dumber

12 posted on 05/15/2008 5:37:43 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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