If you think about it, the statement is patently ridciulous. Just a few examples Bill Bennett, George Will, Charles Kratuhamer, Kevin Phillips, Antonine Scalia and I could easily fill up the page with educated conservatives. Of course they are not right thinking, so ergo, they are not intelligent or so I would anticipate.
Actually I think it is the other way. Republicans tend to think of dems as uneducated, unproductive, lazy schemers, rather than as elitists. There is a divde on both sides that is the result of stereo-typing and the bitter nature of politics.
You seem like you are talking about the republican party of 1998, not 2008.
When Sarah Palin got up and said "I was a hockey mom", "PTA" and that crap, it was an overt insult to the prior expectation that you needed to be highly educated to hold that office. Classic pandering to ignorance.
As for Antonin Scalia, those were all REAGAN appointees. We are not talking about Reagan. Look at the republican party now, not what it was then. Look at Sarah Palin and whether reagan would have appointed her to anything. |
