In some ways, the most horrible thing about teatardism is that it makes people like Paul Ryan look like intellectual giants by comparison.
Bobo and Andrew Sullivan and Ross Douthat and the other economic illiterates who populate the *serious intellectual* conservative pundit class are so happy to see a Republican whose calculator goes into the billions that they don’t bother to ask how the fuck raising interest rates would increase lending or what the fuck “vouchering Social Security” could possibly mean.
You can bet that they’ll portray John Thune as a serious policy wonk if he gets the nomination in 2012, too. And the evidence that will be provided is that he’s not as ignorant as Sarah Palin.
Update. Sorry for the lack of links. I did this with the iPad and doing links isn’t so easy with it for me, at least not yet. BTW, this site is barely usable on the iPad — about 45 seconds to load.