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ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« on: October 28, 2012, 08:25:29 AM »
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ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?


 
Are liberals twice as smart as conservatives? It's hard to say. I have heard estimates of anywhere from one-and-a-half times as smart all the way up to five times as smart. A Pew research poll found that while 55% of scientists call themselves Democrats, only 6% call themselves Republicans. At the other end of the spectrum, the number of Tea Party members calling themselves liberals is slightly above 0.0%, while the number calling themselves conservatives is just under 100.0%

Liberals read a lot and are open-minded enough to listen to other viewpoints. If they put stock in the viewpoints of media figures, it's likely to be those of pundits from Public Radio and MSNBC where everyone has a college degree, and often an advanced degree. When conservatives read, it's the error-filled books written by school dropouts who host or appear on conservative radio and TV shows. Conservatives are closed-minded and delight in flagging liberal posts, or, failing that, resorting to name calling when confronted with evidence that conflicts with what they were told by Rush Limbaugh.

Liberals vote in their own interests. Conservatives vote the way they are told by the propagandists at Republican headquarters for policies that help only 1% of the people.

It's not a perfect measure of intelligence, but IQ test scores can be useful. Here is a representative sampling of liberal and conservative IQs. All scores are estimates:

A sampling of IQ test scores of liberals: Keith Olbermann 160, Bill Clinton 157, Barack Obama 146, Joe Biden 126, Jimmy Carter 180, Albert Einstein 220, Jesus Christ 300.

A sampling of IQ test scores of conservatives: Sean Hannity 86, Paul Ryan 91, Mitt Romney 103, Rush Limbaugh 90, Joe The Plumber 47, Sarah Palin 0.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251177310

If we are so much dumber than liberals then why is is, that we knew from day 1 that it was a terror attack in Libya and not outrage over a movie that until then no one had ever heard of? Why is it we foresaw the Muslim brotherhood taking over Egypt? How is it us low information voters told you that 0bamacare was not going to lower premiums?  For such stupid people we seem to get a lot of things right.

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2012, 08:26:56 AM »
Mole, I bet.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2012, 08:35:28 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 28, 2012, 08:26:56 AM
Mole, I bet.

Yeah probably a good bet, but I was trying not to out him.  :rotf:
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2012, 08:36:48 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on October 28, 2012, 08:35:28 AM
Yeah probably a good bet, but I was trying not to out him.  :rotf:

No, to the contrary.

It's good training for those on our side; we advise and counsel them about becoming better moles.
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Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2012, 08:47:10 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 28, 2012, 08:26:56 AM
Mole, I bet.

What gave it away...the stupid IQ comments at the end?   :-)

The whole thing steadily descends to the depths of ridiculous.  

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Never mind.  I just saw the all IQs are estimates jazz.

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« Last Edit: October 28, 2012, 08:53:48 AM by 98ZJUSMC »
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Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2012, 08:50:46 AM »
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I never really thought of it being Conservative.  I just thought it was common sense.

 - Adam Corolla

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Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2012, 08:54:04 AM »
Quote from: 98ZJUSMC on October 28, 2012, 08:50:46 AM
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I never really thought of it being Conservative.  I just thought it was common sense.

 - Adam Corolla

:lmao:

I've never figured out why it was called common sense, when it never seems to be all that common, especially among liberals and bureaucrats.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2012, 08:56:33 AM »
My little sister earned her master's a decade ago and for quite some time, would try to end arguments, in which she was wrong, btw, with, "Well, I have a master's degree..."
This all stopped as soon as I mentioned that our uncle had an MBA, and 3 ex-wives.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2012, 08:59:12 AM »
Quote from: diesel driver on October 28, 2012, 08:54:04 AM
I've never figured out why it was called common sense, when it never seems to be all that common, especially among liberals and bureaucrats.

 :-)

I firmly believe that, even some Conservatives, drop a bunch of IQ points when they become bureaucrats.  I'm fairly certain common sense is not in the job description.
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Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

"Accuse others of what you do." - Karl Marx

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2012, 08:59:52 AM »
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Liberals read a lot and are open-minded enough to listen to other viewpoints.

Really? Seriously? this is just from the 1st page here:

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,80050.0.html

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I'm temped to donate some money to a third party

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2012, 09:00:28 AM »
We're the dumb ones but they're the ones who are constantly frustrated when their policies are rejected or resort in abject failure.

We're the easily led but they can't get us to trade Fox for MSNBC.

We're the hate-mongers but they are enraged a bunch of christian fundamentalists are voting for a cultist with magic underwear.

We're the anti-science crowd but they rail against carbon emissions and farm husbandry that have saved literally billions of lives.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2012, 09:04:00 AM »
Quote from: Big Don on October 28, 2012, 08:56:33 AM
My little sister earned her master's a decade ago and for quite some time, would try to end arguments, in which she was wrong, btw, with, "Well, I have a master's degree..."
This all stopped as soon as I mentioned that our uncle had an MBA, and 3 ex-wives.

That's funny.

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Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2012, 09:22:14 AM »
If you're going to tout how much smarter you are than everyone else, it doesn't help to include a false equivalency flaw in your first three-line paragraph.  Unless you are addressing moonbats, of course, because being the emotional and unthinking creatures they are, they'll totally buy into it as long as it agrees with their own preconceptions.

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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2012, 09:24:16 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on October 28, 2012, 08:25:29 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251177310

If we are so much dumber than liberals then why is is, that we knew from day 1 that it was a terror attack in Libya and not outrage over a movie that until then no one had ever heard of? Why is it we foresaw the Muslim brotherhood taking over Egypt? How is it us low information voters told you that 0bamacare was not going to lower premiums?  For such stupid people we seem to get a lot of things right.




Don't stop there.  It's so obvious that you're eleventy bajillion times smarter than us.  We should give you some sort of trophy to recognize your brilliance, but I'm afraid that you might lick it just like you lick the windows on that short bus.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2012, 09:27:50 AM »
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2012, 10:37:41 AM »
Slugs are smarter than Liberals.
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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2012, 10:51:06 AM »
Present-day Liberals/Progressives (love their coopting of the titles) may not be enlightened or have substantive arguments but they do know how to play to win. They're good at it.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2012, 10:58:25 AM »
People that think they are twice as smart as others are always fooled. These people are nothing more than useful idiots.

The DUches are now gleaning that 0bama is going down and going down in a landslide.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2012, 11:58:26 AM »
Quote from: jukin on October 28, 2012, 10:58:25 AM
People that think they are twice as smart as others are always fooled. These people are nothing more than useful idiots.

The DUches are now gleaning that 0bama is going down and going down in a landslide.

Yup.



They know. :evillaugh:
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2012, 12:13:40 PM »
If liberals were twice as smart as conservatives, why are they not winning at everything?
Smarts is an advantage in life. Yet most libs are dependent on the govt for a living..

Why haven't the smartest people on earth been eloquent enough to win a single argument in this last election?
Smarts means you can explain things better. Why then does FOX news out perform all the liberal news sites combined? Why is Rush listened too by 6 million people a day? Where is the persuasive AirAmerica?

Smarts means problems can be solved. Wars can be won. Why aren't all the unemployed back to work?
Why hasn't the stimulus created any jobs? Where are the brilliant arguments that will win an election for Obama?
Why hasn't Romney resigned, endorsing Obama for his magnificent 2nd Term plan?

In short if liberals are so smart, why are we conservatives winning?
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2012, 01:21:51 PM »
Anyone who believes Jesus is a part of any earthly club is severely deluding himself.

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« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2012, 01:42:24 PM »
DUmmie is super smart.....but can't change a flat tire....just keeps jacking up the car and turning the round side down just to find that that side is flat too.....they use the methodology for their liberal programs.
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2012, 01:47:12 PM »
If lefties are voting for their best interests why do they not ask themselves why they are always losers and poor?
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« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2012, 01:50:34 PM »
I dearly hope they continue to believe such nonsense.
Custer was a demeocrat.  :-)
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Re: ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2012, 02:47:37 PM »
This guy is an awful mole.

With less than a hundred posts he comes up with a ludicrous post like this?

This is more like a suicide run than a serious mole.
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