Santorum: No Smart People On Our Side

Isn’t it funny how reading a book and mentioning that fact to someone else makes you an elitist out to control people but ‘earning’ billions and using some of that money to corrupt the political process doesn’t.

Rick Santorum delivered a sermon to the gathered hordes at the Values Voters Summit last weekend, telling them that they’ll never have the media or smart people on their side because those people want to “tell you what to do.”

Santorum has three degrees from good public universites, including a law degree.

He uses his education to make $3 million a year.

He is a smart, educated person in the economic elite. Obviously he is outright lying.

those people want to “tell you what to do.”

It is the other way around of course. Normal people tell the christofascists to go away and leave them alone. The fundies can’t stop trying to tell other people what to do. If they would just stay under their rocks and live their hate filled, dysfunctional lives quietly, no one would care about them.

This would be an “own goal.” The absurdity of the statement just serves to prove the underlying point that Santorum and the people with him are aggressively ignorant.

Ironically conservatives tend to consider themselves to be elite in the sense that they deserve better treatment than everyone else for no good reason apart from their own egos.

The Christianists seem to be convinced that the best way to define themselves is by listing the things they hate and/or resent. Perhaps it is beginning to dawn on them, sub-consciously, that shouting what they are “for” is odious to an overwhelming number.

Alverant “Ironically conservatives tend to consider themselves to be elite in the sense that they deserve better treatment than everyone else for no good reason apart from their own egos.”

Lies! It’s not “better than everyone else”, it’s “better than those that should be below them”. The Natural Order®, you see.

tbp1 “Isn’t he on record as saying he’s a conservative rather than a libertarian precisely because he wants the government to tell people what they can do in their private lives?”

Oh, posh! Telling someone “The Lord only wants what’s best for you.” is waaaay different than “You must eat these abortion pills and gay marriage this person!”

Colbert had an excellent takedown on this last night.

Yeah, damn those stupid smart peoples! Always wanting us to make sense and stuff and making fun of our imaginary friend.

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This speech seems to advance the Republicans further into the wasteland than ever before. They’ve always been happy to win votes by working themselves into a lather about the “intellectual elites”, but there always seemed to be an underlying assumption that those intellectuals were not really truly intelligent: that there was some kind of common sense possessed by the man in the street that was not possessed by the ivory tower scientists, and that this more than outweighed the scientists’ greater book learning. Santorum here seems to be going further, and actively stating that people should have pride in their own stupidity; that stupidity is valuable for its own sake. It’s a surreal line to take … I’d have thought his intended audience would much prefer the traditional approach, because they’ll have happily Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing they ARE intelligent.

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