NYT: Rick Santorum Thinks People Who go to College are Snobs?

Likely not. The quote was actually, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob." As a college student myself, let me say this: Right on. How could anyone wish collegiate life on the voting public? The President should be ashamed, as should this other person, also named Rick Santorum, who campaigned to allow every person in Pennsylvania the ability to attend institutions of higher learning when he was running for the Senate in 2006.

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But what the article in question truly makes apparent is not this one buzz word heard throughout the blogosphere, but that politicians will say anything to anyone if they think that it will earn them either publicity or a vote. Does Rick Santorum think that people who encourage education are elitist jerks pushing their own beliefs onto unsuspecting fry-chefs who are entirely happy with their lives? No. What Rick Santorum believes, as do any and all politicians in this particular election, is that the voting public prefers extremism over moderation.

This article -- which is simply a recap of a week in the Republican Primary -- is American politics at its most refined. A working system gamed by broken men. Santorum said something ridiculously anti-cultural (as mentioned above), and lambasted one of the most (incorrectly?) beloved Presidents of recent years, all while claiming that the religious majority is being stifled into silence by the over-powering might of the non-religious minority. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, used the week to question Santorum's judgement using hindsight as a sort of barometer for the man's conservative values, as if any of the Republican candidates are lacking in that regard. The Primaries have essentially boiled down to a he says/she says battle to discover which candidate is the most ludicrously un-electable.