I've held off doing this for some time, for fear it would be regarded as flippant, but tonight, on the first night of the GOP convention, I think it has its place.
I meet conservatives all the time. I see them on TV, hear them on the radio.
Some are almost immediately identifiable as just plain stupid. But many are clearly quite intelligent. I don't think anybody can say that Rush Limbaugh is stupid. He clearly isn't.
To my mind that leaves only one option: Rush Limbaugh isn't a big fat idiot, he's simply evil.
Overall, regarding conservatives in general (and I am speaking of today's conservatives, not the individuals of yore who might have actually brought some dignity to that label,) do you regard them to be: