Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.

There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

Bring me my bow of burning gold!Bring me my arrows of desire!Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!Bring me my chariot of fire!

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.