Rupert!
Posted on 08/02/2011 7:46:43 PM PDT by Coleus
Someone forgot to tell him that nerds are supposed to be smart.
I’m talking about the geeky ex-governor of Minnesota. The other day, the New Republic carried a piece titled "The Tragedy of Tim Pawlenty" in which the writer, Walter Shapiro, tells of watching the wannabe GOP presidential nominee deliver his stump speech. It offered the following passage about how Pawlenty ended up in law school:
"I remember walking past my dentist’s office," he recalled, "and, as I looked at his Buick Riviera parked in the driveway, I began thinking that, to get ahead in life, you had to be a dentist. So I went to college wanting to be a dentist. And several years into it, I had to take organic chemistry — and the rest is history."
At this point, the writer says of the candidate, "His audience was divided into two camps: those laughing and those applauding."
I can understand the laughter. But why the applause? It seems like only yesterday that the leading lights of the Republican Party were deep thinkers such as William F. Buckley, who would have confessed to being a communist before confessing to a lack of ability to understand simple subjects once required for graduation from high school, never mind college.
These days, the Grand Old Party has been taken over by characters who willingly admit they’re too dumb to drill teeth. I witnessed the same phenomenon when our governor entered state politics. Chris Christie’s stump speech back then included a creation myth that involved being born in Newark — either in a manger or a log cabin, I forget which. Christie would then go on to state, "I went to law school because I could not do math or science."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nj.com ...
As opposed to left-wing geniuses like...?? Al Sharpton?
All this proves is Paul Mulshine being too dumb to recognize the joke, a common problem with democrats/liberals/lefties/pigressives. As our so-called president 0bama would say, it’s above their pay grade.
mulshine is very conservative, the only conservative columnist for the star ledger.
If Murdoch could make more money turning FNC into the Gay Chess Channel he'd be working to develop a team around Shep and Carl Cameron.
A shame he’s such an ignorant jackass - note the false quotes at the bottom of this birdcage-liner that he authored.
I would love to tell this moron that in order to be a good liberal all you have to know how to do is lie, steal and be an lifelong hypocrit. The freshmen liberals have good teachers, Pelosi (nursing home candidate judging by the way she’s been speaking lately), Reid, Frank, Schumer, etc.
Ahhh, the civility of the left! /s
Long before I stopped reading newspapers altogether, I knew enough to avoid the Ledger.
Doesn’t this deserve a barf alert? I am frankly sick and tired of the Republican bashing that seems to be the sport of the day.
Frankly, you take the worst of our bunch...even that jerkface John McInsane...and his governance, while it would SUCK, would not be the full throated fascism Hussein’s cult is cramming down our throats. We’re on the brink of doom, and some folks—good conservatives whom I’d no doubt enjoy a beer with—are seemingly hellbent on pissing all over every Republican who doesn’t follow their particular brand of Republicanism.
Has this person taken a gander at the Democrat Party lately? They cannot even do elementary math
Murdoch is buddy buddy with the Chinese I hear
A “conservaive” like David Brooks and Joe Scarborough?
lol
What were Obama’s grades in Organic Chemistry?
But why the applause?
The other day, the New Republic carried—Once TNR's referenced (the "flagship of the left"), one can stop reading.
It's been alleged that Mulshine is a conservative.
Yet, I've never seen any evidence of it.
Mostly, it seems, he's just a rock thrower. And a grumpy one, at that.
The comments after the article are priceless. One poster said: "republicans are so stupid, they don't realize that we'll only have a 14.7 trillion debt in 10 years". Oh, joy. So that means it's OK, then. And the author of the post is wrong anyway. If you're going to be ignorant, at least have some facts behind your ignorance.
Thanks for pointing out that Organic chemistry is a second year college class. A student must have several other chemistry classes under his/her belt brfore they can register for organic chemistry.
It is a tough class, the toughest class I took in college. My major was Medical Technology (now called Clinical Laboratory Science). It requires enough chemistry to be close to a minor in chemistry, and enough biology to be nearly a major in biology, plus a class in physics. After taking and passing organic chemistry, I was happy I did not have to take any other chemistry classes. All the previous ones I had enjoyed.
By-the-way, I laughed when I read Pawlenty’s story - that he decided to become a lawyer after not being able to pass organic chemistry. Folks, we have an overabundance of lawyers in this country and many are liberal politicians. So, I guess it would be true to say that they are the folks who are not fit to tie the shoes of doctors and dentists, yet they make laws that make it nearly impossible to practice private medicine! How ironic.
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