This year, I'm voting smart.

I am taking a few moments off from my current stock price obsession to reveal some exciting new political thinking.  And boy, it's earth shattering, this insight of mine.

This year, I've decided, it pays to vote smart.  Not that we ought not consider our options carefully at every voting opportunity.  What I mean is,  I'm sick of stupid candidates. Candidates who wink and sneer, mispronounce nuke-u-ler and think international diplomacy means liking Chinese food.  You betcha.

How is it we actually seem to admire leaders who proudly announce they've only had a passport for a year, attended five, count-em F.I.V.E. mediocre institutions of higher learning before actually graduating and whose undergraduate class rank was next to last.

SInce when has top of heap, best in class, thoughtful, accomplished achievement become a political liability? What's with all this anti-intellectual prejudice?

It seems to me, given the complexity and gravity of the current domestic and world situation, we ought to can the folksy, down-home crap and seek the best minds we can to help navigate us out of this hole.

And here's the deal,  smart people can disagree but they at least believe in science, have read history and understand (as well as one can) economics.  Field dressing a moose?  Nice soundbite but pretty irrelevant training for hardball.

Comments

[mazu]

Amen sister! As for me, I'm focusing on (and will vote for) those candidate(s) who actually speak to the issues with honesty, intelligence and integrity thus providing ideas, priorities and solutions as opposed to those who would spread disinformation about their opponent(s) in a transparent and increasingly desperate attempt to hide their own lack of original thought and ineptitude. I can only hope that the majority of voting Americans will pull their collective heads out of the sand in time and vote smart.

[Willie]

I voted smart too!