Please show me besides his apparently stellar knowledge of baseball statistics (things he REALLY cares about) any evidence that Bush is smart.
Lets see...he's leader of the free world..and you're what? Some random poster on some non-descript political board.
Bush has proven that lack of intelligence is not a hinderance to getting elected - in fact he's shown that by using ridiculous generalizations and perpetuating this down-home hokum bulls**t that somehow makes him a regular guy. Which of course is nonsense.
Firstly StatesRights - you have absolutely no idea who I am - plus as I expected you were unable to give me one scrap of evidence that shows him to be smart - so you retorted with adolescent childish insults... good for you. At least Tredrick gave some suggestions all though Bush was being tied up until 9/11 and knee-jerk patriotism somehow gave the Congress cold feet about exercising their most basic and important fucntion.
But I will agree with you on one point. The Debates in 2000 were when Gore let the election slip through his fingers. Bush's camp had lowered the expectations of him SO MUCH that for Bush to be considered the winner - all he had to do was turn up and not screw up - plus Gore didn't help himself. So - he wins by the politics of low-expectations.