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HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts) Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:35 PM Feb 2012

Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann.

Proof you CAN get Juris Doctors from a Cracker Jack box.

Seriously . . . between Michele's ideas of "returning the nation to a Christian Theocracy" (uh, wouldn't returning to something imply that we ever had it to begin with) and Rick Sant . . . well, just about ANYthing Rick's been saying lately qualifies here, HOW were these two nutbars ever smart enough to merely walk erect, let alone achieve Juris Doctors?

I don't buy it. Not even for a second. Dubya looks at these two and thinks "DAMN these two are givin' ME a walk fer my money."

How is it possible for someone to be supposedly book-smart (Santorum graduated with honors, if I'm not mistaken) yet whenever you hear them talk about matters historic, economic and governmental, you're just left wondering if someone substituted their brains with rotten tapioca?

And THIS is who we have running for President?

COME on.

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Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. (Original Post) HughBeaumont Feb 2012 OP

Back in the day there was a prize in every box Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #1

Mark Twain on the subject of politicians: Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2012 #2

And that's likely the difference between Republican and Democratic politicians. HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #5

Sadly, a diminishing breed headed for extinction. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2012 #6

There are a lot of second-to-fourth rate law schools hifiguy Feb 2012 #3

Funny . . . I was watching "Legally Blonde" last night . . . HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #4

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

1. Back in the day there was a prize in every box

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:41 PM

Feb 2012

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. Mark Twain on the subject of politicians:

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:45 PM

Feb 2012

"In . . . politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public."

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

5. And that's likely the difference between Republican and Democratic politicians.

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:14 PM

Feb 2012

. . . well, Democratic politicians that ACT like Democrats, anyway . . .

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

6. Sadly, a diminishing breed headed for extinction.

Reply to HughBeaumont (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:21 PM

Feb 2012

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

3. There are a lot of second-to-fourth rate law schools

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:53 PM

Feb 2012

that will give a degree to anyone with a pulse and tuition money. Viz, Bachmann and Orly Taitz. IIRC, Frothy went to an actual, ABA-accredited law school.

Though the ranking of the institution is no guarantee that it will always produce human beings with a conscience. I am proud to say that I share a legal alma mater with the POTUS and the FLOTUS (with whom I graduated), not to mention Harry Blackmun and Bill Brennan. On the other hand, Roberts, Alito and Scalia are also alums of the same school, so nothing's certain.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

4. Funny . . . I was watching "Legally Blonde" last night . . .

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:10 PM

Feb 2012

. . . and during the admissions scene, where they're watching a video of her various sorority accomplishments, I'm thinking "Not even suspension of disbelief is working here. Damn."

But then you think "Well wait a second . . . Bewsh got into Yale AND Harvard Biz, right?"

ETA: Conscience is ONE thing. Someone with a Gump-IQ can have a conscience.

I'm talking about the fact that Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann are genuinely the dumbest people with graduate degrees I've ever heard (well, next to Oily Taintz, obviously).

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