Quote Originally Posted by Islandborn
This is exactly the "I'm somehow better than you" attitude that caused the pseudo-intellectual leftists to loose the most seats SINCE 1948.
Pseudo-intellectual? I'm somehow better than you? I'm an elite, dude. Two degrees from top schools in 5 years and graduated in the top 1/3 of my class. That's right, I earned my education and my access to high paying work. I also served my country where I learned many valuable skills and achieved access to a wide range of decision makers. My second language is on the State Department list of critical languages. How is it that this is something to be ashamed of in Republican circles? It cracks me up. I'm an elite and proud of it. I now work in international finance and I get paid. And what does that education and training get me? The ability to critically analyze both sides of an argument. I accept data from anywhere so long as it is factual. You can make up your own opinions but you can't make up your own facts. (I can't remember who said it first).

The Republicans are in a race to the bottom. Look at the candidates they field. They sure as hell are not elites. Let me ask you this: when you are about to board a plane, who do you want at the controls, someone who has training out the wazzo from top flights schools plus thousands of hours of flight experience or someone who went nights to the Wisconsin school of aviation and earned an associates degree in 7 years? I'll take the elite please. When someone is appointed to manage a nuclear power plant in your city who do you want at the controls, an elite nuclear physicist Ph.D. from a top school or someone with a high school diploma from a school in Houston TX? I'll take the elite please. And when it comes to government, who do you want, someone with extensive training and experience or a mama grizzly or perhaps a witch? I'll take the elite please.

Give me a break already. I thought you were going to take a week off?