I don’t expect the average American to know the names of all nine Supreme Court members, or even to know that there are nine Justices. But I do expect a presidential candidate to know the answers to those questions. Rick Perry doesn’t. I’m trying to think of an equivalent from everyday life. It’s like being a college basketball player and not knowing who Kobe Bryant is. Rick Perry is a politician. That’s what he does for a living and has done for a living for decades. He ought to know who is on the Supreme Court just by osmosis. Pretty much any political junkie can tell you who is on the Supreme Court. You have to be willfully ignorant to be in politics and not know. And, the thing is, this kind of stupidity is incredibly rare on the Democratic side, but it seems to be almost normal among Republicans, who keep giving us candidates like Quayle and Palin and Perry. Why is that?
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