"You're Stupid." "No, You're Stupid."

(Updated Version)

Some of us "elitists" have been getting flack for saying that people who voted for The Big Turd Sandwich are stupid.

Of course I realize that not everyone who voted for The War President is stupid...some of them are selfish.

The Six Corporations (a.k.a. "The Media") have carefully avoided the stupid issue, choosing instead to focus on social issues. In other words, instead of offending SmirkBoy's supporters by calling them dummies, The Media has decided instead to blame The Gays. What a crock.

Yesterday, however, the always excellent Bob Herbert decided he's had enough of blaming the victim and declared "Stupid is as Stupid does" (whatever the hell that means Forrest). Take it away Bob:

I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election's outcome as values. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland found that nearly 70 percent of President Bush's supporters believe the U.S. has come up with "clear evidence" that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda. A third of the president's supporters believe weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. And more than a third believe that a substantial majority of world opinion supported the U.S.-led invasion.

This is scary. How do you make a rational political pitch to people who have put that part of their brain on hold? No wonder Bush won.

Bob, since he writes for a sometimes respectable newspaper (does Judith Miller still work there?), avoids actually using the word "stupid" but he does go on to use the word "cluelessness". Bravo Bob. However, since I'm a lowly blogger, I can say, unequivocally (except for the selfish people), that if you voted for The Big Turd Sandwich you are STUPID. You are an IDIOT. You are a MORON. Thanks for nothing, you stupid, idiot morons...
(map courtesy of/stolen from The Washington Monthly)*

But wait, there's more: If you think I'm being too harsh, wait'll you read this post. Even I blushed (so, if you don't like big swear words, don't click on the link).

Also, be sure to check out this post, courtesy of The Daily Howler, entitled "Eastern Elites Give Free Dough to the Poor." How's your blood pressure holding up?

And, finally, just in case you didn't see this interview with Tom Wolfe from The Guardian:

"I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East-coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non-morality. That is constantly done, and there is real resentment. Support for Bush is about resentment in the so-called 'red states' — a confusing term to Guardian readers, I agree — which here means, literally, middle America."

Take one guess where Tom grew up...

*(Apparently this map contains one inaccuracy: Kansas was not open to slavery in 1860, the year this map represents. Sue me...)