Why are Conservatives so stupid they misspelled potato. Red states have the lowest S.A.T scores.?

Question

Dan Quayle and some other nutcase conservatives spelled potato potatoe. According to news week red states have the lowest S.A.T scores.

Is this because of inbreeding? Or maybe taking too many of Rush Limbaughs pain killers.

Answer 1

It was actually some teacher's union member moron that handed Quayle an answer card with "potatoe" written on it.

Of course, Quayle was also dumb enough to read it verbatim.

Do two wrongs put together make a moderate?

Answer 2

Both are correct, one is just older in usage than the other. One who reads extensively in the classics would be more exposed and thereby most likely to use that particular spelling.:

"Potatoe" is an archaic spelling of the word potato. The Oxford English Dictionary lists potatoe as a variant form, the most recent usage cited being from 1880: "She found the parson in his garden..making a potatoe pie for the winter." However, in modern English it is considered a misspelling, since although the English plural, potatoes, is spelt with an "e", the singular is not, and no dictionary considers potatoe to be an acceptable modern spelling.

* Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle was notoriously associated with this misspelling in a June 15, 1992 incident that was, albeit briefly, national news in the United States as well as a source of entertainment for the tabloid newspapers in the UK. Quayle went to a photo op at Munoz Rivera School in Trenton, New Jersey, where he was to officiate a spelling bee by drawing flash cards and asking students to write the words on the blackboard. 12-year-old William Figueroa wrote "potato", but the flash card Quayle was working from was misspelled so he prompted the student to add an "e"

That a majority use the more common Potato spelling does not make it more right. That is a logic fallacy known as ad populum.

Answer 3

Are you still talking about this? Of course everyone knows that in the south most students take the ACTs and not the SATs. So if you take the average scores in those states the average test score is HIGHER than in the blue states. So you cheat and "fudge" the results and through some voodoo science try to equate ACT scores with SAT scores.

And since the research was done by liberals with a set agenda, they come up with a lower score.

Why do liberal democrats insist they can compare apples and oranges concerning this subject?

With the election coming up why are liberals spreading lies like a farmer spreads manure?

Answer 4

Actually Alabama is a Red State and one of its public high schools has one of the highest average SAT's in the USA.
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!
Please don't tell the NEA, though, they might have a conniption.

Answer 5

Huh, I live in a blue state and the schools here are the worst I've ever seen. Maybe they are doctoring the SAT scores.

Answer 6

You are still sweating and fretting over something from 15 years ago and you have the gall to call into question anyone else's intellect?

Time to get that diaper changed.

Answer 7

Blue states have the highest rates of AIDS...so sit on a potatoe maybe it'll absorb some of your aids drippings...

Answer 8

Because it was a liberal who wrote the article you were reading, hoping you would be like the rest of the sheep and not look for the truth yourself.

Answer 9

I bet you use spell check to make sure you have no mistakes.. get over yourself, and find a real issue.

Answer 10

You got iy right pard...