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# Wikipedia commentary/Stupid Republicans

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There is a tradition in the [American media]? to portray Republican Presidents as being stupid. Since most members of the press (around 90%) vote Democrat rather than Republican, there is reason to suspect this portrayal is simply grounded in anti-Republican sentiment rather than in fact. However, since most of the American media is owned by Republicans, there is reason to suspect this portrayal is simply grounded in fact. Many of the Republicans who are portrayed as stupid have credentials that should put to rest any doubts about their intelligence, and would, if the only way they could get those credentials was through the application of their intelligence. Dwight Eisenhower graduated first from the Army's demanding Command and General Staff School. George W. Bush avoided the [Vietnam War]? by training as a fighter pilot in the National Guard (and went AWOL without repercussions during that), and has a masters degree from the very prestigious [Harvard Business School]?, famous for challenging most students while letting the sons of the rich slide through. Yet both men are popularly perceived as being below average in intelligence. That perception, in the case of George W. Bush, is correct. The general perception of Ike was not that he was stupid, but that he disdained reading.

Republican Presidents that are often considered stupid:

     George W. Bush
     Dwight Eisenhower
     [Gerald Ford]?
     Ulysses S. Grant
     Warren G. Harding
     Ronald Reagan

See also Stupid Republicans/Talk

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