# Is Kevin McCarthy really that stupid?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 18, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kevin-mccarthy-really-that-stupid/956256 "2021-12-18T04:23:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![StraightTalk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straighttalk/32/9982_2.png) [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kevin-mccarthy-really-that-stupid/956256/21 "2021-12-20T01:01:48Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> No. 341,199 deaths as of 12/31/20 and 802,969 today.
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> McCarthy knows that blaming one’s opponent for what is making people unhappy is always a sound strategy. Is it a hypocritical one? Of course. The only core Republican principles are hypocrisy and bigotry. The only real question, sadly, is how the OP can be surprised about this.

Not surprised. More like disappointed.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kevin-mccarthy-really-that-stupid/956256/22 "2021-12-20T01:17:32Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Do you think he is mistaken? I don’t.

I think he’s right about his followers, but they aren’t the ones he needs to convince. It only helps if he can convince some people who weren’t going to support him or the Republicans.

Unfortunately, I do think that a large portion of the undecided voters are rather uninformed.

Ambivalently, an electorally significant portion of their base is dying off because of their position on COVID-19.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kevin-mccarthy-really-that-stupid/956256/23 "2021-12-22T01:07:25Z")

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> [@StraightTalk](#):
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> Recently he said “I took President Biden at his word; I took him at his word when he said he was going to get Covid under control. Unfortunately, more Americans have died this year than last year under Covid.”

> Kevin Owen McCarthy is an American politician, serving as House minority leader in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. **A member of the Republican Party…**

Stopped reading right there. Of course nothing he says about COVID, or Biden, will suggest anything other than everything is the Democrats fault and we should impeach Biden NOW!!!

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