Actually, here's a scary possibility...

Maybe Bush actually is very, very smart! Smart enough to appear stupid enough to get elected...

Why am I saying this? The American public is nervous of really smart men, and does not generally like voting for anyone whom they instinctively feel might be smarter than themselves.

That's why Adlai Stevenson never had the ghost of a chance. Remember him? Too intellectual.

Americans will always vote for a war hero, a guy who grew up in a log cabin, a jus' plain folks type of guy, or a good ol' boy, before they'll vote for a "pointy-headed intellectual".

Do you think Pierre Trudeau would ever have gotten elected in the USA? Not a chance! The guy was brilliant, and everyone could see that. He was so smart that it even made Canadians nervous...

(this whole post, BTW, is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it does make a certain point concerening American politics that I think is valid at the same time)

- LH