Politico's Ben Smith on the idea that sunspots can cause climate change: He suggests it's a blooper/stupid/a stumble/extremely dumb

Who are you calling stupid? - POLITICO.com Print View

The 2010 election has devolved in its closing days into a battle – familiar in American history and high school alike – over who’s stupid, and who’s a snob.

Republican candidates have served up their share of bloopers — humanoid mice, sunspots causing climate change – and Democrats have taken the expected delight in their opponents’ stumbles. But they’ve taken their mockery one step further – contending as a part of their closing argument that the tea party movement, its champion Sarah Palin, and the left’s favorite Republican candidate, Christine O’Donnell, are, frankly, dumb.
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This is not to say that Republican candidates – and O’Donnell in particular – haven’t had their share of extremely dumb statements....Other Republican candidates have contributed to the fun: The frontrunner for Senate from Wisconsin blamed global warming on “sunspots,”...