She’s not stupid, though, and I think she’d do better to shake her handlers loose and just talk directly to people. She has the charm to pull it off.
It's funny isn't it, because Bush went to Harvard AND Yale, and he might as well have not graduated 6th grade.
I think the less "intellectual accomplishments" one has:
1. the more I trust that person, at least as not being part of the establishment if not all together
2. the more common sense they seem to have.
3. the more in touch they are with average Americans.
Am retired from the legal field.
A dept. with over 130 white collars,
from Havard to you name it.
Some couldn’t tell you who bombed Pearl Harbor.
Lincoln wouldn’t make it today, poor guy with a few yrs. of formal education.
The uninformed type on FR would run him off.
Damn intellectual accomplishments anyway. Who needs people who think?
College has nothing to do with it. What counts is breadth of experience.
For instance, W was born into a blueblood Connecticut family, and never held a real job in his life (did you know he got his first driver’s license in his twenties because he always had a “driver?”) He has no idea of what goes on in the real world, and he comes across as a dumb**s because YOU would have degrees from Yale and Harvard too if your daddy and his powerful friends picked you out for the White House when you were five years old.
Reagan, on the other hand, had all kinds of real world experience, had jobs and maintained a real household. Also, he went to a small, but good-quality college and was a trained economist. Most people don’t know what last about him.
I have five college degrees (and I could be ordained as a UMC minister today), all paid for by working—including five years as a roofer when I was a young man. I’ve been married for over twenty years, and paid for my own home. Does that make me wise? Blue-collar “expertise” means nothing, by itself. That’s my point.