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Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« on: September 17, 2012, 11:11:31 am »
"We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side."

The media "doesn't like the other side," Santorum said. "And not necessarily, I would argue, because they agree with them, but because they can influence the country.

"If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to," Santorum said.

Santorum also criticized the libertarian wing of the Republican party for not supporting what he sees as the pillars of conservatism: religion and family.

"When it comes to conservatism libertarian types can say, oh, well you know, we don't want to talk about social issues," Santorum said. "Without the church and the family, there is no conservative movement, there is no basic values of America."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rick-santorum-says-smart-people-will-never-be-on

Well at least they are finally admitting to themselves that only the unintelligent will be GOP supporters.  Maybe they joined a 12 step program?
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Re: Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2012, 12:32:44 pm »
Well now that's just awesome ;D
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Re: Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2012, 01:09:57 pm »
Spin time: Santorum calls conservative voters stupid!
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Re: Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2012, 01:59:57 pm »
Quote from: Qlockworkcanary on September 17, 2012, 01:09:57 pm
Spin time: Santorum calls conservative voters stupid!
How is that spin? That's exactly what he did.
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Re: Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2012, 02:15:00 pm »
I appreciate his honesty.
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Re: Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2012, 03:20:37 pm »
What surprises me most is that this will probably win him votes. Hardcore conservatives tend to be suspicious of those who make a living by brainpower.
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Re: Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will Never Have "Smart People On Our Side"
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2012, 03:45:32 am »
Quote from: Rupert Upton Sirius on September 17, 2012, 03:20:37 pm
What surprises me most is that this will probably win him votes. Hardcore conservatives tend to be suspicious of those who make a living by brainpower.

It is pretty much one of those cases where the vast number of supporters are too stupid to realize they have just been called stupid nor do they realize their own inherent stupidity and hence think they are actually intelligent, more so than those who actually are intelligent.
This is why the playing chess with a pigeon analogy is so appropriate.
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