There’s Nothing Shameful about Walker’s Being a College ‘Dropout’

National Review Online ^ | February 12, 2015 | Charles C. W. Cooke

[Ditto]

President G. W. Bush had a degree from Harvard and the MSM continuously ridiculed him and called him stupid.

Yale AND Harvard. But you're right, they still called him stupid.

I'd like to appear on Jeopardy with super brain Howard Dean. I bet I would kick is preppy ass.

[Ditto]

OTOH, I told people for years that the college degree was merely the piece of paper that keeps the door from closing on you. It’s the price of admission and consideration for many jobs. It only proves that you could persevere to achieve a particular result.

Ditto that. It is exactly why I went out and got one and those very things you cited paid off for me in my career. Without that degree, I would have never been given the opportunity. But I can't truthfully say that I could not have done the same without that degree. The 'Sheepskin' just gave me the opportunity to do it.

Some of the smartest, most accomplished people I have ever known never took a college course.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

. . . Bill Gates never finished college, either.

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Thank you for the PERFECT one-line comeback to the liberal “well educated” imbeciles who will try to make much of Walker’s not finishing his degree. I will use this far and wide, and encourage others to do so as well! (Though I prefer Cruz. But Walker is too good to let the media waste him!)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...If he becomes President and starts turning universities into vocational schools, then his lack of a degree will damage his credibility.

Good grief. He isn't planning any such thing. You sound like a opposition operative.

[cynwoody]

If slimy Dr Dean is so smart, then why is he not richer than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates?

[infowarrior]

I forget who said that he would prefer to pick a name randomly from a phone book that from the roster of Harvard’s professors. In any case, he was right.

The late William F. Buckley...

the infowarrior

[clearcarbon]

I read in his bio that he worked part time while attending college. I don’t recall students doing that unless they had to and were trying to pay their own way through school.

[MrB]

Sometimes you have to “overstate” something to get your point across.

[Pining_4_TX]

Pretty much. East coast libs don’t think anything counts that is west of where they are.