Thanks to a point-to by Gnomic to one of those choose-the-candidate quizzes, I took the two minutes to fill it out. It spat back the list of candidates ordered by intelligence.

The results are here.

Bottom line: Dennis Kucinich and Chris Dodd seem to be the smartest of the pack, while Fred Thompson and Tom Tancredo show themselves to be idiots.

My politics used to be middle of the road, but with America having become more polarized than ever thanks to Mr. Uniter-not-Divider, the candidates ended up sorted by party lines.

This isn’t entirely a surprise. The Repubs apparently have only two tools in their toolbox, thus their solution for everything boils down to A) use violence or the threat of it, or B) give tax money to a private corporation to deal with it. (Or C: ignore it.)

I’m smarter and more flexible than that.

Oh, and as for Iraq, I chose “Draw down the U.S. troops and decentralize Iraq by dividing it into regions of separate governments.” Apparently that’s not in anyone’s playbook.