Posted on 02/12/2015 4:26:38 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
What a snob! On today's Morning Joe, Howard Dean, a product of fancy prep schools and Yale, suggested that Scott Walker was unfit to be president because his lack of a college degree rendered him "unknowledgeable."
Dean's disdain for the un-diplomaed came during a discussion of Walker having declined, during his recent trip to the UK, to state whether he believes in evolution. Joe Scarborough was incredulous at Dean's diss, pointing out that people such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg never finished college. To which list could be added super-successful and knowledgeable people from Rush Limbaugh to Steve Jobs, among many others.
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No one on earth who should be even a little bit surprised by this.
Lookin around at the “educated” ignoramuses foisted upon us today and considering the state of higher education, Scott Walker’s lack of a college diploma is a plus.
Dean’s elitism won’t impress most voters. Quite the opposite.
The greatest and riches men in the world were not college grads.
The Dems, being elitist scum, will try this road for a while. I doubt they’ll gain much traction with it. In fact, it’s more likely to backfire a bit, as most folks will scratch their heads and wonder why anyone is making a big deal out of a guy who got a good job after three years of college, and wound up with a life too busy to go back. Too many Americans have followed the same path, or know someone they love who has followed this path.
They will eventually abandon this line of attack and try to make a stink over the fact that his wife is 12 years older than him. Which, for some, will have a faint odor of a certain disreputableness.
But that will clash directly with the feminist narrative, and will go over similarly.
Early indications are that Gov. Walker has very few negative “hooks” onto which to latch, and if they don’t find something a lot more potent, they may have a frustrating electoral year in 2016, if Republicans are smart enough to nominate Gov. Walker, or someone as readily electable as he.
Yep, Probing for a weakness, like I said it’s an old lib media tactic.........that they strangely never seemed to use on obozo. Weird.
Would anybody want this guy as their family physician?
sniff...... sniff.....
fear, I think, no I’m certain, I smell fear
Dropped out his last semester because he was bored by the professorate. Mastering the French language also appeared to be problematic.
Personally not too impressed by those in Washington who earned a degree.
BTW, good thing Chelsea had help with her papers, no?
I disagree with Dean that you need to have a college degree to be knowledgeable or smart. Some of the smartest people I’ve met only have high school degrees. But having said that, Walker dodging that question wasn’t the smartest thing to do either.
Good...this is an argument conservatives want to have with liberal elitists in front of a national audience.
It goes back to one of the long held central beliefs that Americans need to be herded to make the “correct” choices. Walter Lippman wrote in the 20s that Americans were like a bewildered herd who needed a group of experts to nudge us from the shadows.
Unintentionally insulting his non degreed Dem voters.
OOPS!
-PJ
Palin’s real opportunity to run may have been in 2012, before another four years of reality TV. But to be in this year, with degree-less Walker would at least silence the crap she took about her lowly public college degree.
“Cruz graduated with highest honors from Harvard Law School and Princeton.”
I was not aware of that. One more reason the lib media leaves Cruz out of their little GOP candidate polls no doubt.
Hey Howie-my truck needs a new throwout bearing.
Bring your Yale sheepskin over here and do it. You can use my tools.
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