Jesse Ventura smacking down wingnuts on The View

I can't believe I'm actually citing Jesse Ventura but this is really good,



Elizabeth Hasselbeck is Pure Wingnut Concentrate. I have to applaud Ventura for making reasoned points while listening to her bounce from one incoherent talking point to the next. If you can't make a logical, reasoned and articulate argument for your position on an issue then you may need to rethink your position. The inability of the GOP base to articulate themselves on any issue of substance beyond one or two sentence talking points is a clear symptom of their overall intellectual decay. As famed conservative jurist Richard Posner wrote last week,

My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That the policies are weak in conception, have largely failed in execution, and are political flops is therefore unsurprising. The major blows to conservatism, culminating in the election and programs of Obama, have been fourfold: the failure of military force to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives; the inanity of trying to substitute will for intellect, as in the denial of global warming, the use of religious criteria in the selection of public officials, the neglect of management and expertise in government; a continued preoccupation with abortion; and fiscal incontinence in the form of massive budget deficits, the Medicare drug plan, excessive foreign borrowing, and asset-price inflation.

By the fall of 2008, the face of the Republican Party had become Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. Conservative intellectuals had no party.

Hasselbeck isn't some outlier or in anyway non-reprsentative of where her party is at the moment. Her intellectual shallownes on any substantive issue derives from the intellectual shallowness of her party.