I was listening to John McCain the other night and got to thinking: Are we going to elect another in a long line of intellectually deficient presidents?
Let's look at who we've elected and neglected in the past 50 plus years.
Eisenhower over Adlai Stevenson. Ike was likable ("I like Ike"), but Stevenson had smarts. It was his egghead caricature that cost him dearly. We wanted a general.
JFK over Nixon was an exception, but we eventually elected Richard M. against a brainy Hubert Humphrey. Big mistake.

Lyndon Johnson was a good 'ol boy from Texas that beat that nerdy looking, but bright, Barry Goldwater. Ronald Reagan smarter that Jimmy Carter? I doubt it. Jimmy was just unlucky (Iran hostages). Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis were very intelligent. What happened to them? And, of course, we know about Al Gore having the election taken from him. Boy did we ever make a mistake in refuting him. Admittedly, Bill Clinton was smart (Rhodes scholar and all), but we know he had a lapse in judgment a time or two.

You don't suppose we could possibly elect someone that had an ounce of intelligence and good sense this time around? I just can't comprehend another president in the mold of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I and II.