Is Bush a moron?

It's fairly common nowadays to read liberal or left-wing rants calling President Bush a moron, idiot or otherwise deriding his intelligence. This trend is extremely juvenile and says more about those doing the whining than it does about their target. If the left's solution to change its invertebrate status is to out-snivel Coulter and O'Reilly, then it deserves as much scorn as the other guys.

But this childish verbal assault on the president's intelligence is also counterproductive.It's counterproductive because it inadvertantly lets the president off the hook. It turns him into a rube who's well-intentioned but not too bright. Think about it: who could hate Forrest Gump?

I'm not going to go so easy on the president. I don't give a rat's behind what Bush's IQ is. I don't care if he hasn't read War and Peace in the original Russian. I care what he's done, doing and plans to do for this country. Or more accurately, to this country.

I'm not going to vote for him based on that criteria alone. And no one else should either.