[DaBroasta]

Sen. John Kerry was baffled..."He said with a sigh to one top staffer, 'I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot.'"

Kerry suffers from the same problem that many of the liberal elite snobbery do. People like Effing and Al Gore develop an overblown opinion of their abilities to engage in social and intellectual domains. Their intellect is generally on par with that of a typical college graduate (both Gore and Kerry were C students) yet they have convinced themselves that they are intellectually superior humans.

As a result, people like Kerry and Gore often reach erroneous conclusions about complex situations and as a result of their miscalculations make stupid mistakes and missteps.

Their real problem is that they lack that metacognative skills to realize it.

[PrtzlLogic]

Kerry suffers from the same problem that many of the liberal elite snobbery do. People like Effing and Al Gore develop an overblown opinion of their abilities to engage in social and intellectual domains. Their intellect is generally on par with that of a typical college graduate (both Gore and Kerry were C students) yet they have convinced themselves that they are intellectually superior humans.
As a result, people like Kerry and Gore often reach erroneous conclusions about complex situations and as a result of their miscalculations make stupid mistakes and missteps.
Their real problem is that they lack that metacognative skills to realize it.

Well said.

I find it annoying how the liberals currently think they have a corner on intelligence ("Bush is stupid, and so are his supporters."). The most intelligent people I've met throughout my life were virtually always Republicans (or Libertarians). Conversely, most of the "intelligent" liberals I've met seem to have some sort of disconnect in their logic and critical thinking capacity. They can get only so far in an argument, then their reasoning implodes -- yet they can't think critically enough or objectively enough to realize it. What gets frustrating is: at that point in the argument, you've lost them -- but they don't even realize they're lost. They get caught in some weird, subjective bad-logic loop, yet continue to think they're making sense. And thus, based on the incorrect presupposition that they're still making sense, they arrogantly conclude that they're still winning the argument and therefore: "Republicans are stupid 'cause of on account of that they don't get our brilliance."

Guess what, liberals? WE GET IT. We just wouldn't use the term "brilliance" to describe it.

Not that I'm bitter.

[maryz]

Their intellect is generally on par with that of a typical college graduate (both Gore and Kerry were C students) yet they have convinced themselves that they are intellectually superior humans.

In C.S. Lewis' phrase, they are "men without chests" (chest here standing for those normal human responses that are neither pure gut level nor purely cerebral -- the aesthetic, the moral, trained affections, etc.) -- since they are so lacking chests, their heads look huge (at least to them).