Dwight Drake has fresh reason to take to heart Jesus’ words, “A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.”
You may recall that awhile back, I rose to the challenge of rating the gubernatorial candidates by my perception of their intellects, and I put Dwight in the top tier (actually listing him first in his tier, but that’s because he came first alphabetically).
Dwight told me this morning that he heard of the compliment from one of the young people in his office (you can always count on those young folks to surf the Web during work hours), and he was pleased to learn of it.
But then he went home, and his 10-year-old daughter said she’d heard that “the newspaper” had rated him as the smartest of the candidates.
Well, Dwight demurred, he wasn’t exactly rated the smartest, but merely made the top tier, and he would have probably gone on to explain that it wasn’t exactly the newspaper that did the rating… but he was missing the point.
His daughter quickly set him straight by observing, “Those must really be some dumb guys you’re running against.”
out of the mouths of babes
Oops. I told my wife about this exchange with Dwight today, and she had not known about the post I did on the candidates’ intellects, and her reaction was like, “You did WHAT?”
So I guess I just dropped a tier or two in her estimation of MY smarts…
So voters shouldn’t judge candidates based on perceived intelligence?
Oh, right.. in South Carolina that’s not part of the equation.
Who’s Your Daddy? How Long Have Your Lived Here? and What Color Are You? are the only questions to ask.