Are All Republicans This Stupid?

There's lying, and then there is just stupidity and ignorance. (h/t to Steve Benen).

ABOUT THAT CHURCHILL EXAMPLE.... Apparently, when the House Minority Whip isn't seeking guidance from Newt Gingrich, he's reading up on Winston Churchill.

...Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.), the House minority whip who led the fight to deny Obama every GOP vote for the plan, is studying Winston Churchill's role leading the Tories in the late 1930s, a principled minority that was eventually catapulted into power over the Labor Party.

There's no direct quote in the paragraph, so it's not clear who's misstating history, but Josh Marshall sets the record straight.

In the late 1930s, of course, Great Britain didn't have a Labour government with a principled Tory minority. It had conservative Tory government with a Labour minority. And Churchill was on the outs with both, although on some fronts he was beginning to make common cause with some Labourites on his key issue, which was foreign policy. When Churchill eventually came to power it was in a national coalition government for the purposes of fighting the war. And when he eventually went to the voters as head of the Tory party toward the end of the war they got crushed by Labour in a landslide.

I say all this as a big Churchill fan. But, I mean, not only is Eric Cantor no Winston Churchill, I'm not even sure he's read a book about Winston Churchill.

Of course, if Cantor is "studying" the former Prime Minister, he'll probably realize one of these days that Churchill's example won't help Republicans now.

Is it any wonder that the Americans are producing stupider and stupider children? Don't people read anymore? Just make shit up and have an attitude that appears knowledgeable is all it takes now?

If the economy doesn't wipe us all out, the human race is sure destined to extinction based on stupidity alone.

STUPIDITY UPDATE (BUMPED):

“A democracy could not exist because Mohammed already made the perfect law,” [former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick] Santorum said. “The Quran is perfect just the way it is, that’s why it is only written in Islamic.”

It's was originally written in Arabic, you idiot. There is no such language called Islamic.