I can't speak for intellectuals in the race for President, however I can you from first hand experience in corporate America....where a so called intellectual was either CEO, COO or President the companies suffered from paralysis of analysis. They NEVER able to jump into the fray and LEAD. They had to have too much information...needed to study it far too long and usually found rationale for not rocking the boat. They did NOT have the moxie so to speak to analyze and assess QUICKLY and the do what had to be done. I mean each and every company that had a problem in the everyday competitive environment they just could not and did not perform.

So I am always interested in knowing, relative to politics, just what is it in an intellectual VS one deemed not to be that is supposed to be an advantage?

I suggest perhaps finding a mutually agreed upon definition of "intellectual" before segregating which is or is not.
I don't think it matters one bit in politics.....THEY ARE POLITICIANS first and foremost.

I will take an action oriented, make it happen person each and every time....generally speaking with no implication to what ever their party affiliation may be.

BTK