Christine O'Donnell, Mrs Palin, Their Supporters. And Why They Are Beyond Merely Stupid.

Quick answer to that question is "The Dunning-Kruger Effect."

The quick explanation of what exactly that is, is to say that some people are so damn stupid, they are incapable of knowing how stupid they are.

For a deeper analysis, go here.

Now what does that have to do with O'Donnell and Palin? Ok. In the warped world of extreme right wing politics, being a near if not almost total idiot is no hardship. I mean really. Don't you have to be something of an idiot to be crowned as a Prince or Princess of Idiots?

At the very least I should try to give props where due. Mere accomplishment of certain things do not mean a person is smart in the intellectual sense. After all, if one achieves fame or fortune because a bunch of other people are so stupid they will give you money and/or votes, that is not the same as curing cancer. Shit. That's not even the same as being able to change a flat tire. Anyway. Mrs. Palin sure knows how to sell out (let's go back to sarcastic for a moment, here, fleece that portion of the population even less bright than she is.) And Ms. O'Donnell sure knows how to run for the Senate from Delaware. Seems to me, that has been the closest thing to a job she has had, for the last five years.

But ya. I am not going to go on a rehash here about why conservative ideology as it seems to be in the year 2010 is at best bullshit, and at worse, a how-to on how to enslave and greatly reduce the American Middle class. I mean really. Anyone who does not get it yet, that the GOP really is deliberately trying to do that either has been in a walking coma since the Reagan years, or,

is too stupid to know how stupid they are.

Mostly unrelated throwaway. I expect to see Ms. O'Donnell "crucified" on the antisemitism issue. I'd happily lead the charge. But I need a contract first.

(Abs is trying to go pro, here.)