Mike Pence Is Stupid, Says Matthew Yglesias

Click here for an article entitled "Mike Pence" by Matthew Yglesias at Think Progress from September 26, 2008.

And yes, Yglesias -- a respected journalist -- says Pence is stupid:

And I can tell you this about Mike Pence: he has no idea what he’s talking about. The man is a fool, who deserves to be laughed at. He’s almost stupid enough to work in cable television.

And:

He didn’t know anything at all, in short, about investing, financial markets, or, seemingly, the basic terms of public policy. And yet there he was speaking on the topic at Heritage. He’s a total fraud.

The reference to "Heritage" is to the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank -- and when former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint was appointed president of the Heritage Foundation a few years ago, my hero, Prof. Paul Krugman, said "Well, that takes the 'think' out of 'think tank.'"