No Votes For the Dumb Liar

Okay, in the Iconoclast endorsement post the other day, I pointed out some of the reasons I can't vote for Bush. In an article on today's NYT about how Florida is already having voting disputes, there's another choice quote that sums it up for me.

"Bush is a liar," Gene Conrad, a 65-year-old teacher from Jupiter, said after hearing Mr. Kerry deliver a speech on religion the other day. "He lied us into war. And I cannot vote for anyone who is dumber than I am."

A friend told me yesterday that he was talking to a Bush supporter, and asked, 'doesn't it bother you that he can't even correctly pronounce "nuclear"?' The Bush supporter shrugged it off, saying that his father also mispronounces it that way.

WTF?! Okay, that's fine if your dad or your uncle or your brother mispronounces things, or even if they say "begs the question" when they should say "raises the question." But the individual who is the President of the United States should be about the smartest damn person we can find. But for all the things that Bush's supporters think he is, I doubt even they would claim "smartest damn person we can find".

Is John Kerry the smartest damn person we can find? No. But he sure as hell doesn't go around broadcasting his ignorance by saying "nucular"!