Evangelicals Are Still Dumb?

In a Cox News Service story by Scott Shepard, the old "Evangelicals are stupid and easily manipulated" rhetoric has cropped up again, this time out of the mouth of Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report:

"Im not sure how much a Harvard-trained former Vanderbilt heart surgeon
Presbyterian can sound like an evangelical."

Does a Harvard education preclude being an evangelical? Is being bright and rich like a heart surgeon impossible for an evangelical, who must be poor and stupid? Indeed, does even being a Presbyterian preclude being an evangelical?

Today is Justice Sunday, when evangelical churches across the country will take up a bit of politics as they consider whether the fact that being anti-abortion precludes one from being a federal judge means that the Dem filibuster is an action against people of faith. The MSM coverage will probably be constrained, respectful, clueless and insulting, all at the same time.