Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:33 am Post subject: Edumacation
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Evan McMorris asks Michigan Tea Partiers, attendees all at Americans for Prosperity's Troy conference, whether they share Rick Santorum's outrage at Barack Obama's college-boosting.
...Clement’s husband, Stephen, said Santorum was right on the mark when he said that Obama wants to send kids to get college degrees so as to produce more liberals....
The thing of it is: Obama hasn't told the lumpen proletariart to go to liberal arts schools and become indoctrinated in left-wing thought and a cappela. His universal college call, which took on form in 2009, was for some kind of higher education. Trade schools? Have at it. Politically, here, it hardly matters. As he does on many topics, Santorum skillfully cracks open a policy issue and finds the culture war walnut within.
lulz. _________________ "Now is not the time for sound-bites" - David Cameron
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:59 am Post subject:
There is a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in the Republican party. They have recently added the rejection of science. _________________ "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" Earl Weaver
There is a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in the Republican party. They have recently added the rejection of science.
Recently?
Here's a 2003 piece taking it back to 1973 when Nixon abolished the entire White House science advisory team by executive order.
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The split between the GOP and the scientific community began during the administration of Richard Nixon.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, protests against the Vietnam War captured the sympathy of the liberal academic community, including many scientists, whose opposition to the war turned them against Nixon.
The president characteristically lashed back and, in 1973, abolished the entire White House science advisory team by executive order, fuming that they were all Democrats. Later, he was caught ranting on one of his tapes about a push, led by his science adviser, to spend more money on scientific research in the crucial electoral state of California. Nixon complained, "Their only argument is that we're going to lose the support of the scientific community. We will never have their support."
The GOP further alienated scientists with its "Southern strategy," an effort to broaden the party's appeal to white conservative Southerners.
Many scientists were turned off by the increasing evangelical slant of Republicans and what many saw as coded appeals to white racists.
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:37 am Post subject:
The Catholic Church doesn't seem to think it's bad idea for people to go to college.
I'm older than Santorum, and I don't think professors were more conservative when I went to college. Obviously, he didn't come out a liberal. _________________ "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" Earl Weaver
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