[Romulus]

Romney is a smart guy and I hope he wins (faute de mieux), but he is no intellectual. In this is is like most every American politician — no classical education or exposure to the liberal arts, and therefore not an educated man but a mere technocrat: a muddled thinker with no philosophical core and no systematic grasp of logic or rhetoric. It leads to an unprincipled, pragmatist, incoherent, and sentimental approach to the world entirely in keeping with one who would point to honorary degrees as an academic attainment.

I could buy five Ph.D.s on line before lunch, every bit as notable as Gov. Romney’s.

[mrsmel]

Very well said. Why must it be all or nothing with some people?

[Mr. Jeeves]

In this is is like most every American politician — no classical education or exposure to the liberal arts, and therefore not an educated man but a mere technocrat:

Yes, but unfortunately it seems these days that 95% of classically educated people turn into Marxists. I wish it were not so, but this is exactly what William F. Buckley meant when he said he would rather be governed by the first 400 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard University.