It looks like, just like East Coast liberals, D.C. conservatives think they're better than people in the rest of the country. They went to better schools, so they're smarter and hipper, and they can tell the rest of us what to do. (Sad to learn that Ann Coulter buys into this kind of ignorant elitism.) True conservatism holds just the opposite view - D.C. ISN't the center of the universe, and intelligence can be found throughout the country - and in schools in many states and regions.
I went to the same university, Cornell, that Ann Coulter did (somewhat of an embarassment to me as I despise her.)
I've always been annoyed and irritated by Ivy League elitism myself (and it is a severe East Coast problem); I used to coach the speech & debate team there, and we've have new kids join the team, find out they were competing against Illinois State or Southwest Missouri State, contemptuously sneer, and then get their butts kicked (for a variety of weird reasons college speech and debate is dominated by Midwestern, often obscure, schools.)
I've run into a lot of brilliant people from no-name colleges, and I knew a lot of idiots at Cornell (some with PhDs.)
The main point of objection, that most of us NON East Coast conservatives have, is that she is, to US, an unknown, and that although we'd love to trust the president; experience has taught us, that lifetime appointments, and the future of this Nation, this Culture, this way of life, the FUTURE of our FAMILIES!, is too D@MNED important to bet on "trust".
Won't it be refreshing to have a supreme court justice who for once has spent the majority of her legal career among the common, every-day, God loving American, rather than the elitist circles some conservatives seem to find so important. The attitude being shown by the elite conservatives has been a real eye opener.
So true. I haven't checked, but I'm willing to bet that almost all of the liberal horses posteriors on the SC have gone to the "elite" law schools. Obviously graduating frm the "elite" schools, even with high honors, does not guarantee that one will not be an awful justice. Additionally most of the ridiculous liberal policies of the last sixty years have come from idiot libs from "elite" schools. Screw 'em.