How about Roe v. Wade, Christine, since you've been a card-carrying member of the Junior Anti-Sex League for decades now?

I'm with you on wanting people smarter than I am in public office. What I worry about is that all the likely voters are applying that standard to their own lives, too, and finding the candidates they choose meet that standard.

That says a lot more about how smart we are, I think, than how dumb our politics is.