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Ted Cruz Is Smart, So What?
National Review Online ^ | July 29, 2014 4:00 AM | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 07/29/2014 6:30:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

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1 posted on 07/29/2014 6:30:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
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2 posted on 07/29/2014 6:31:06 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Replace TC’s name with OBlameA and it’s a perfect fit.


3 posted on 07/29/2014 6:37:42 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: SoConPubbie

No one has ever, to my knowledge, published SAT scores, ACT scores, IQ tests, college transcripts, or anything to document that Obama is so darned smart. Jimmy Carter was supposed to have been extremely intelligent — nuclear engineer or something like that with the Navy.

Barry is in good company with Jimmuh.


4 posted on 07/29/2014 6:39:48 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: SoConPubbie

In any prison, you can find hundreds of Barack Obamas. The only difference between them is Obama was the post turtle trained to use his skin color and sexual orientation to climb the political ladder with a lot of help from America’s enemies.

Intelligent? No.

Sociopath? Yes.


5 posted on 07/29/2014 6:39:51 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Show me the man and I will find the crime. - Lavrenti Beria)
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“...Obama...is still out on the right-hand tail of the IQ bell curve....”
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Yes, I agree...but he has not strayed very far from the “center” of the bell curve...a standard deviation perhaps. In any case, wherever he is on the IQ bell curve, he is likely well over on the LEFT-HAND TAIL of the Competence bell curve.


6 posted on 07/29/2014 6:41:38 AM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: SoConPubbie

There’s actual “smart”, and then there’s “liberal smart”, which simply means supporting centralized authority.


7 posted on 07/29/2014 6:43:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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B0dunhamsoetorosoebarkah’s mind is already made up. He has no original or creative thoughts. He refuses to comprehend or even listen to alternative views, data and theories.

Reminds me of a few mohammedans I have met. Everything that needs to be known is in “the book.”


8 posted on 07/29/2014 6:45:50 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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Do we have his Columbia degree? In his one pamphlet he got up the energy to write back in the 90s, he wrote he “attended” Columbia and was born in Kenya. No one at Columbia even remembers him. How is that possible in a future president?

I forgot that Besloss said Obama was smarter than Tom Jefferson, lol!


9 posted on 07/29/2014 6:46:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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In certain circles, you can cheatsheet your way to instant recognition as "very intelligent" by loudly proclaiming your vigorous embrace of all political and social opinions presented on the great big liberal platter. No substitutions allowed.

Once your bona fides are established in this manner, you can proclaim all those who refuse any opinion on the platter as "stupid", thus making yourself even more intelligent in the eyes of your peers.

They don't distinguish between opinion and intelligence, making an upside down world where any sort of questioning or speculating about an issue in a new way proves you to be intellectually weaker.

Liberals never question the opinions they are handed, because being intellectually curious or open minded about issues is considered lowbrow or stupid.

It's a mental circle jerk, keep your ideas to yourself and work your wrist.

10 posted on 07/29/2014 6:51:55 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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“O” is NOT smart. Look where THAT got us!!!


11 posted on 07/29/2014 6:54:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Only a MENSA standout like him could state that, in columnist Jack Kelly’s pithy summation,

there are 57 states; Canada has a president; “Austrian” is a language; America is “20 centuries” old; Arabic is spoken in Afghanistan. He’s called the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) the Maldives, and declared it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to invalidate a law passed by Congress.

Well, even genius lapses.

12 posted on 07/29/2014 6:55:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: SoConPubbie

One one else can and is willing to destroy Hillary Clinton with undeniable passion and logic like Ted Cruz


13 posted on 07/29/2014 6:59:55 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Zuse
It would be a mistake to underestimate B0dunhamsoetorosoebarkah. He is smart in cunning, dangerous ways.
He absorbed Marxist doctrine (Stanley Ann, Frank Marshall Davis, professors), matched it up with mohammedan supremacy & taqiyya & intimidation, and implements his notions with Alinsky tactics.

Marx, mohammed and Alinsky — it is frightening how effectively they can convince masses that evil is good — a most dangerous demonic combination in the quest for power.

14 posted on 07/29/2014 7:00:08 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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Think back a few years and remember that they published article after article after article remarking upon Al Gore’s enormous intellect.

Considering that the guy is dumb as a post, how is it possible that they mistook his dimness of wit for smart? Leaving aside that this tells you all you need to know about the relative intelligence of the scribbling class... they thought he was smart because he agreed with them.

We’ve been told again and again that Reagan and GW were dumb, and that Gore and Obama were smart. Actual intellect and accomplishment doesn’t enter in to the equation. Conformity does. That, and scribblers scribble what they are told to scribble. Remember, fast forward in the time machine, how many articles and headlines and magazine covers have assured us that Michelle epitomizes the height of fashion, “just like Jackie O”. Really?

Someone who would write that would write anything.


15 posted on 07/29/2014 7:00:31 AM PDT by marron
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I speak as one who scored well to the far right of the IQ curve at eighteen. Actually in the top one per cent of a group of Navy enlisted men who were all well into the triple digits. I say that IQ alone is limited in what it says about future prospects. On the one hand a low two digit score is an almost certain predictor of failure at most endeavors but on the other hand a super high triple digit score is no guarantee of success, if it were you would know me by my real name and you would see me on the TV news regularly.

Put Barack Obama in the big swamp trying to hold his own with a group of deer hunting, catfishing, timber cutting, bulldozer driving, jack of all trades
rednecks and he will look like the helpless idiot just as those people would at a diplomatic dinner. The difference is that to me Obama is an idiot in BOTH settings.


16 posted on 07/29/2014 7:03:59 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Hitting the nail on the head:

“Modern liberalism believes that there is an answer to every question and a solution to every problem — that is, provided someone smart enough is in charge. But the reality is that there is no brain in the world big enough for the task.”


17 posted on 07/29/2014 7:04:59 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Beschloss and the other MSM idiots called Reagan a likable dunce. Enough said!


18 posted on 07/29/2014 7:08:00 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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I’m not one to demean intelligence. Too often we get into the trap of saying that smart people really aren’t effective, or that the “streetwise” person will always do better than a smart person. That’s not true. Smart people are very effective in life. They figure things out more quickly and easily than stupid people, or even people of average intelligence. However, history has shown that intelligence alone is not enough. It has to be grounded in morals and humility. Example # 1 of intelligence not grounded in morals and humility is the Woodrow Wilson, probably the most evil man we’ve ever had as president. I am glad to hear someone like Alan Dershowitz say that Ted Cruz is brilliant. I am glad he is smart and becoming more and more effective in using it.


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