UPDATED - DO YOU THINK YOUR LIFE WOULD RUN BETTER WITHOUT INTELLECTUALS OR WITHOUT BLUE COLLAR REDNECKS?

UPDATED - SCROLL DOWN -

INTELLECTUALS ARE FINE - WE DO NEED 'EM, I GUESS...


BUT THEY AIN'T GONNA GROW OUR FOOD, BUILD OUR HOMES OR KEEP US SAFE FROM CROOKS, OR FIRES OR OUR NATIONS ENEMIES.


EAST-COAST ELITISTS MAY MAKE FINE PROFESSORS, AND THE CHIC DEGENERATI MIGHT MAKE FABULOUS STYLISTS...


BUT THEY AIN'T GONNA DRIVE THE TRUCKS THAT MOVE THE GOODS WE NEED, OR BUILD THE ROADS THAT CARRY THEM, OR EXTRACT THE ENERGY THAT MAKES THEM GO - AND THAT MAKES OUR LIGHTS COME ON AND OUR SHOWERS HOT.



URBANE CULTURALISTAS SURE DO CURATE SOME FINE GALLERY SHOWS, AND ERUDITE EXPERTS SURE CAN EXTRAPOLATE INTRICATE FORMULAS AND CONSTRUCT DAZZLING PRONOUNCEMENTS WHICH WILL BE - UNDOUBTEDLY - NECESSARY TO REVISE...

AND THEM AND THEIR COMMITTEES USUALLY DO A BANG-UP JOB OF REVISING THE REVISIONS AND FOOT-NOTING THE FOOTNOTES, TOO.


BUT THEY AIN'T GONNA MAINTAIN OUR NATION'S PHYSICAL PLANT OR EVEN DO ALL THE OTHER MENIAL WORK - INSIDE AND OUTSIDE - THAT SIMPLY MUST GET DONE.


IT'S THE REGULAR JOE'S AND JANE'S WHO DO MOST OF THE WORKING AND PAYING AND LIVING AND DYING IN THIS CRAZY WORLD, AND NOT THE SNOBS.

THE ANCIENT SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD WERE LARGELY ORDERED UP BY DESPOTS, DESIGNED BY WILY WIZARDS, AND HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED WORLD-CLASS BY DILETTANTES OF DISTINCTION...

BUT THEY WERE BUILT WITH THE SWEAT, BLOOD AND TEARS OF COMMON MEN AND WOMEN.


AND WITHOUT THESE COMMON FOLKS DOING THE MANUAL UPKEEP, THEY ALL FELL APART....

AND THESE COMMON MEN AND WOMEN, WELL... ER, UM...

THEY MIGHT NOT BE AS EDUCATED AS THE INTELLECTUALS, OR AS BRILLIANTLY ENDOWED...

BUT MOST OF THEM HERE IN THE USA AT LEAST HAVE ENOUGH COMMON SENSE TO REVERE THE CONSTITUTION - (WHOSE SIGNING WE COMMEMORATE TODAY)...

AND THEY'VE NEVER BELIEVED IN THOSE IDIOTIC "BIG IDEAS" THAT INTELLECTUALS HAVE REPEATEDLY FALLEN FOR -

THE HARMFUL IDEOLOGIES LIKE SOCIALISM, CULTURAL AND MORAL RELATIVISM, MULTICULTURALISM, TRANS-NATIONALISM, AND ATHEISM FOR THAT MATTER, WHICH HAVE COMMITTED THE MOST OF THE WEST'S GENOCIDE IN WORLD HISTORY, AND CREATED THE MOST POVERTY.

THINK ABOUT THIS THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE TELLS YOU SO-AND-SO AIN'T SMART ENOUGH TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.

DON'T GET ME WRONG:

SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE INTELLECTUALS.

A HIGHLY EDUCATED PERSON WITH COMMON SENSE IS IDEAL.

IT'S JUST NOT VERY COMMON - ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED FACULTIES AT MOST OF OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAVE BEEN FOR DECADES ACTIVELY BRAINWASHING STUDENTS INTO BELIEVING POSTMODERNIST NONSENSE.

I THINK MITT ROMNEY IS A VERY BRIGHT MAN AND HIGHLY EDUCATED - PERHAPS THE BRIGHTEST AND BEST EDUCATED IN THIS OR ANY OTHER FIELD OF CANDIDATES, (AFTER ALL, HE EARNED A JD AND AN MBA FROM HARVARD, SIMULTANEOUSLY).

BUT I'M NOT SURE ABOUT HIS CORE PRINCIPLES.

DON'T GET ME WRONG: IF HE'S NOMINATED, THEN I WILL SUPPORT HIM.

IT'S JUST THAT I THINK A ROCK SOLID MORAL CORE DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THE ETHOS OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION, AND PERSONAL VALUES ROOTED IN OUR NATION'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES - AND THE COURAGE TO DEFEND THEM - ARE MORE IMPORTANT QUALITIES FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE USA.

THINK ABOUT IT.

I KNOW THAT 'D RATHER HAVE A SELF-TAUGHT PRESIDENT WITH A FIRST CLASS HEART, A WHOLESOME SOUL, A STEEL-HARDENED GUT - WHO HAS BOUNDLESS FAITH IN AMERICAN IDEALS...


THAN SOMEONE WITH TOP GRADES FROM THE BEST SCHOOLS, A POST-MODERN/POST-AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW, THE ACCOLADES OF THE TRANSATLANTIC ARISTOCRACY AND A MALLEABLE MORAL CODE.


LET UNIVERSITIES AND THINK TANKS BE RUN BY THE EGGHEADS.

SOCIETY NEEDS THE COMMON FOLK AND COMMON SENSE MORE THAN WE NEED THE INTELLIGENTSIA.

AND WE CERTAINLY DON'T NEED AN EGGHEAD OR A PSEUDO-EGGHEAD IN THE WHITE HOUSE, EITHER.

WE NEED A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED MENSCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

(MORE ON CONSTITUTION DAY HERE AT MSLSD AND HERE AT AMERICAN THINKER.)

UPDATE: HMMMMMMM... A DAY LATER AND MAUREEN DOWD MAKES THIS DICHOTOMY THE SUBJECT OF HER COLUMN.