Not if books are published by Regnery or any of the other conservative pulp mills.
Yeah. Most of the conservatives who make best seller lists do so because the books are bought in bulk to be given away as swag at conservative political conventions. Those books are seldom actually read though.
Well... that would depend on what sources one is reading from. I have a feeling that reading from sources like Breitbart or Salon would probably still make one stupid regardless of them reading, lol.
That said, I get the point you made above, and generally speaking reading is a good thing that more people out there should try sometime, and a good start would be to read the whole Bible so one could see firsthand just what a bunch of bunk that book really is.