I don’t.
Complex organisms have a broad range of abilities, allowing them to survive in a broad range of social and physical environments; there is no ‘optimal’.
Furthermore, he seems to have trouble grasping the basics of math. Wouldn’t the number of ‘entirely different’ math problems with a given answer be infinite?
It’s a “gotcha” disguised as a public policy question. A public policy question would sound more like “What is your stand on the inclusion of evolution and/or creationism in the curricula of taxpayer-supported public schools?” Or “What are your proposals with respect to how your administration would approach this issue?”
If you want to hold his feet to the flames, do it, fercryinoutloud.
Duh.
He’s a Republican!
This is, after all, the party that put SARAH FUCKING PALIN on their ticket in 2008. :smack:
Well, Palin is pretty damning evidence against evolution…
Nah, she’s just proof that the human race has gone beyond natural selection in a very, very unhealthy way. ;_;
Screw that parvenu shit. They’re the party that put Richard Nixon in the WH. Twice.
I’ve never consented to a Pubbie having that job ever since.
A lot of Repubs in office are very smart. They have no doubts about evolution.
But in order to win they have to appeal to voters who are wandering around in the antediluvian jungles. Without that vote they lose. So what do you expect them to say?
If they are pro choice, they have to run strongly against it.
There are some pretty smart repub pols who have to sell a big chunk of their integrity to win.
Actually, the are not.
Since Reagan they’ve been systematically going after the racist, intolerant and religious vote, which they have been claiming in a substantial majority.
They know what they’re doing.
Simplification aside, Bush had a rather high approval rating among Republicans when he left office. More disturbingly his approval rating among Republicans topped 80% during Katrina.
That’s right.
All he had to do is to spread his “kill the dark skinned” message and marry it to nationalism and the conservative vote followed him hook, line and sinker.
Considering his about-face on globalism, he’s practically a reformed sinner! 
Currently the Republicans are cultivating the votes of those with jobs. At least fifteen million Americans are unemployed, and face long term unemployment. Any serious effort to help them will require tax increases, not only on “the very rich,” but on the reasonably comfortable.
According to Gallup 52 percent of Americans consider themselves to be thriving. 44 percent consider themselves to be struggling. 52 out votes 44. Also, many of the struggling think the government cannot help them, and can only hurt them with tax increases. These are inclined to vote Republican.
They should love Obama then. He’s given them nothing but tax cuts. Of course, most teabaggers have no idea Obama cut their taxes, but he did.
He could have answered it while explaining his position. He’s not restricted to a one word answer. He could say that while he may personally believe in Creationism, it’s not supported by science but by faith, therefore he is against the teaching of it in public schools, limiting science class to only what can be provable, which is Evolution.
If they are all of the same mind, I expect them all to say they are pro-choice. If every single serious Republican candidate says that, either the primary voters will have no choice but to elect one or elect a psycho with no chance of winning.
You assume that people doing well are greedy assholes. That’s not necessarily true. After all, Ryan assumed that by protecting those over 55 from his attempting to destroy Medicare we’d support it. Didn’t work very well, did it?
Oh, they know. They just don’t care. All the tax cuts in the world won’t turn Obama white.
Not all of them, certainly, but many of them. A political movement should encourage members to think they are virtuous, but it has to appeal to self interest. During the War in Vietnam the anti war movement was powerful on college campuses, because most male college students did not want to fight in Vietnam.
When President Nixon ended the draft in 1973 he killed the anti war movement, and the new left.
What were the approval ratings for President McKinley after the Galveston Hurricane in 1900? :rolleyes:
You were like six when it happened, but if you didn’t know. Bush fucked up the response to Katrina. Because he’s an idiot.