Totally depends on how you define intelligence
If its intelligence as defined by "getting by" I would say they are equally intelligent. But if its intelligence in terms of nuance and complexities, liberals win hands down.
However, if it's intelligence in terms of "real world" practicality and "conventional wisdom" there's nothing better than a conservative mindset--since the world is reduced to absolutes, it [ostensibly] is simple to navigate and easier to communicate about.
That's why liberals [unless they use parody and satire] will always make crappy telepundits/talk radio commentators... how many times have you heard some local guy call in and discuss
how Sartre's idea of NOTHINGNESS from an existentialist perspective conflicts with the real everyday manifestations of the Nietschzean will to power within a background post-MacLuhan consumerism? You don't... complexity, nuance, and cultural texture can't be reduced to a "DITTO, RUSH!"
I'm not, of course, saying that just because a person is versed in Foucauldian genealogical discursive analytics that they are necessarily more intelligent... it just means they tend to demand more details. Details that won't fit in between the Insurance and diet supplement commercials. The common denominator is SIMPLICITY and [seemingly] CLARITY [due to the exclusion of detail, nuance, and background that liberals seem to obssess about] and that's why Talk Radio is conservative heaven.
Of course, talk to a Buchananite and he/she would argue that Hannity and crew are "false conservatives'....but that's another thread
