Who is less bright? GW Bush or J. Danforth Quayle?

[WI_DEM]

[sui generis]

1. d. all of the above

[Vickers]

2. Wow, that's tough

Hmmmmm....yikes, I can't decide!

:P

[abbiehoff]

3. Quayle wasn't much of a speller

but I don't think he was quite as stupid as *.

[LSparkle]

4. DQ ... he wouldn't have been wiley enough to pick DC for VP

* is a dangerous combination of just enough brain cells and just enough power hunger/vindictiveness. Quayle's just a useless doofus, nothing to be afraid of.

[Mutley]

5. as funny as that dan quayle

spelling fiasco was i have to say bush is far less bright. evryone maks spuling erors ocasonaly.

[autorank]

6. You know who is really stupid: ex Sen. John Danforth

He is so dumb it's frightening. Thanks for reminding me w/the full Quayle name. I think he is much dumber than either of these dumbos!

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

7. (Bush) "Obviously on he sails..."

Obviously on he sails,
with marks not quite as good as Quayle’s
~ Calvin Trillin

Please buy his book (it doesn't have to be through Amazon if you prefer otherwise).

[punpirate]

8. Now there's...

... a real race for the bottom.... :P

[RealDems]

9. Stupid is as stupid does...

Quayle may be a moron, but he (thankfully) never had the opportunity to fuck up as badly as Bush.

[Dr.Phool]

10. Robert Bork said

In an interview that Quayle was smarter. I'll take his expert opinion.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

25. Give Quayle credit...

he managed to pass the bar exam, something which not all of the "daddy's money" in the world can buy you. Bush has never done anything all on his own.

[borg5575]

11. Oh yes.

Bush really is stupid. He was stupid enough to get elected to the presidency twice, albeit fraudulently, and he is stupid enough to know how to wreck fifty years of social progress in this country.

When are we ever going to realize that going around calling him "stupid" is not going to get us anywhere? He is not stupid, he is evil, and that's much worse.

He knows exactly what he is doing and how to do it. Before he's through, unless we find a way to stop him, he will have sent this country back to the dark ages.

Our adversary is very cunning and we have to start being that way too before it's too late.

Who was really the stupid one, Bush or Kerry? Bush is sitting in the Oval Office plotting his next moves against the middle class whereas Kerry languishes as a member of the minority in the Senate.

If Kerry had run a more intelligent campaign he would be president right now. Stolen election or not, they couldn't have overturned a landslide and that's what it should have been given Bush's dismal record.

My point is that if we going around calling Bush "stupid" we do it at our own peril.

[WI_DEM]

17. who called him stupid?

I asked who is "less bright"

[borg5575]

18. You are right.

However, others in the thread called him stupid and that seems to be a very common refrain at DU.

[BuyingThyme]

12. Is it just coincidental that neocons were pulling the strings...

of both of these morons?

Think about it. It's all about William Kristol and Donald Rumsfeld.

Do neocons value the power of simpletonism?

[patricia92243]

13. Bush is dangerous in his stupidity. Quayle didn't make any difference.

[bigwillq]

15. I agree

And that scares me so.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. Who had/has a better puppeteer? EOM.

[smoogatz]

16. Okay, time for a smoogatz pop quiz

George W Bush is smarter than which of the following:

a.Those chunks of frozen slush that form behind the wheels of your car after driving in snow.
b.Rush Limbaugh's anal cyst.
c.A fifty pound bag of cow manure.
d.My neighbor's Irish setter, Sparky (who barks all day at nothing).
e.Paint.
f.None of the above.

[zacho]

19. Bush is smart

he just fakes it. Don't buy into his idiocy.

[smoogatz]

20. Rove is smart.

Bush is pliable, and good at faking the "down to earth" thing.

[orpupilofnature57]

22. Ya you got it , kkkarls specialty, pulling shrubs strings for the ? %

[shadowknows69]

21. I think they should play chess against eacu other

and we could watch them both implode

[Raised_In_The_Wild]

23. Shrub of course, is the intellectual anchor of any comparison, and more

insidious too!

[suigeneris]

24. I used to think Bush is dumb.

He's not brainy, obviously, but now, I don't think it's that so much as he is incapable of considering all sides of a matter. It's something about his personality, maybe his character. He won't do the work of learning the issues in detail and making decisions that are carefully considered. He has a kind of general road map, pretty much supplied by his tutors and advisors I think, and then he just consults his gut. I find it scary as hell.

For example, Rice tutored him on foreign affairs before he ran and like a security blanket for a little kid he won't let her get too far away no matter how poorly her analysis, predictions or advice has turned out. I find it scary as hell.



Damn typos!