That entirely depends on which specific Democrat or Republican you talk to, Bobert...and about what. There are some very intelligent people on both sides of that divide...though I agree that when it comes to certain issues...such as blind, jingoistic patriotism and support of war...the Republicans have more people onside for something like that, and that does indicate a certain ingrained degree of stupidity. ;-)

But what always keeps me from underestimating the intelligence of the Right is people like Canada's Barbara Amiel, long a spokesperson for the extreme Right in Canada. She's very smart, sharp as a tack, extremely articulate, downright brilliant in fact. And she's very often wrong. ;-) (in my opinion) The thing is, you see, she's defending certain things in society that she sees as being under threat...and in some cases she is defending them rightly...it's just that I don't agree with her as to what the best remedy might be to fix the situation. She is an unapologetic believer in the power of capitalism to fix everything. I'm not. She also tends to side with the powerful, and I do not. It's a matter of instinctively trusting very different paradyms.

But she is NOT stupid. Hell, no.