No, that wasn’t my point although I can see how it could get lost in the shuffle here because several things are going on. My point was that regardless of intelligence, no one has the right to run someone else’s life. The ruling elite argue that because they, the politicians and Fabian Socialists, are more intelligent than the rest of us, they know better how to run our lives. I didn’t like the tone of Newt’s “forth-grade” remarks because IMO it smacked of elitism especially coming from a D.C. politician.
What I’m saying is 1) they do not have the right to run our lives regardless of intelligence, 2) most are in fact NOT more intelligent than the rest of us, and 3) regardless of comparative intelligence, each individual is better equipped to run his own life than some distant bureaucrat.
Sure, those are good points. But you tried to pin them on Newt’s comments. Newt’s comments were based on actually measure of the presidential candidates’ speaking levels—by which Trump came in significantly below his competitors in the grade level of the language used.