Baffoon

I don't know whether it was 1) a typo, 2) bad spelling or 3) a creative construction, but a commenter on this Floyd Norris post on his New York Times blog makes reference to our leaders as "uneducated baffoons." Since the writer also says "looser" when he means "loser" I'd have to go with 1) or 2), and if really pressed I'd say 2) -- because more and more on the web I see writers trying (without success) to spell words they have learned from listening, not reading.

Be that as it may, baffoon is, after all, a perfect meld of "buffoon" and "baboon" and as such I do believe it should take its place, proudly, in our political lexicon.