Republican debate thread 9/16

Who among the Republican candidates isn't smart?

 

But does he believe he's a pediatric neurosurgeon?

 

He identifies as a pediatric neurosurgeon.

 

Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon was just on MSNBC and said that Hillary was going to make an issue out of sexual assault.

LOL.

 

I think they're all smart, but there are topics where several exhibit ignorance. Trump on vaccines, Carson on homosexuality, Huckabee on Kim Davis, etc.

 

People take brilliance in one area and then assume that they are brilliant in all areas.

People who are brilliant in one area also assume they are brilliant in all areas.

This is particularly true of doctors I personally know and doctors who I have reported on.

Some of them are the smartest dumbasses you'll ever meet. Some of this is the nature of their schooling.

They get focused in on the sciences and such but miss the class that taught basic financial literacy.

So you end up with a doctor who doesn't know how to balance his checkbook.

Carson strikes me as a person who isn't especially intellectually curious and won't go out of his way to learn things that will tump over his apple cart.

Nor will he go out of his way to gather up smart people who will tell him no. That is also very true of Trump. Who, I'd wager, hasn't heard, "No, that's a terrible idea" from one of his employees in decades.

 

Good post in Devil's absence.

 

And a damn good one too. Operated on the stepson of a friend of mine. Consulted on another friend's case involving a complicated chiari malformation. Also did that big Siamese twin separation years ago.

 

I bet you Clinton's done twins before.

 

LOL.

Yeah, I'm sure Ben Carson, who grew up poor in Detroit, was propelled by his lack of intellectual curiosity to a psychology degree from Yale and an MD from Michigan.

I'll bet it was his lack of intellectual curiosity that appealed to companies like Costco and Kellog, where he served as a member of the board of directors.

 

Sometimes the hardest thing to do when you're trying to score with a chick is to separate them from their friend.

Bill was lucky in that he used his Arkansas State Troopers to accomplish that for him.

 

Hey, we got 2 guys last night who said the magic phrase: Radical Islamic Terrorists.