I.Q.

I don't put much stock in standardized tests, but conservatives do. One would think, therefore, that they would be mortified by the following statistic:

Presidents and their IQ:
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 Gerald Ford (R)
175 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald Reagan (R)
098 George HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
091 George W. Bush (R)

The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with Nixon having the highest at 155.

Of course, Republicans, when faced with THESE statistics, will state that standardized tests are meaningless, and that intelligence is not a valuable quality in a President. Since so many offspring of Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush et al., however, may have a future political career, which may one day lead to the Presidency, why, then, not exempt these people from having to take an IQ test at all? That way, only the individuals for whom the test can actually produce a "meaningful" result can be tested.

This argument is nonsense - it is basically stating that the SAT is biased against legacy children of Republican officeholders (despite the Republican claim that the SAT score is a meaningless number vis a vis these officeholders). Of course, Republicans will be the first to tell you that the SAT is most certainly NOT biased against anyone else, such as minority grops. And, some would say, they would have a point. After all, they would know "bias" when they see it.