{"id":4619,"date":"2012-02-28T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2012-02-27T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:08:08","slug":"each-republican-front-runner-is-crazier-and-meaner-than-the-previous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/each-republican-front-runner-is-crazier-and-meaner-than-the-previous\/","title":{"rendered":"Each Republican front-runner is crazier and meaner than the previous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/rick-santorums-rhetoric-goes-to-the-extreme\/2012\/02\/27\/gIQANEYFeR_story.html?wprss=rss_linkset\">Rick Santorum\u2019s rhetoric goes to the extreme &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/eugene-robinson\/2011\/02\/24\/ABPAwVN_page.html\">Eugene Robinson<\/a>, Monday, February 27, 12:11 PM<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Something had to change \u2014 so, in recent days, Santorum\u2019s avuncular smile has become a nasty sneer.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he attacked President Obama for advocating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/santorum-stands-by-snob-comment-says-conservatives-singled-out-and-ridiculed-at-colleges\/2012\/02\/26\/gIQA7InobR_blog.html\">higher education<\/a>. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Yes, you read that right: Santorum came out against going to college.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college,\u201d Santorum said in Michigan. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/santorum-obama-is-a-snob-because-he-wants-everybody-in-america-to-go-to-college\/2012\/02\/25\/gIQATJffaR_blog.html\">What a snob.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huh? Santorum elaborated: \u201cThere are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day, and put their skills to test, that aren\u2019t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he [Obama] wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Ridiculous? Offensive? Hypocritical? Manifestly, all of the above.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Only a fool or a liar<\/font> is unaware that higher education is all but a prerequisite for success in the post-industrial economy; the unemployment rate for college graduates is just 4.4 percent, compared to 9.5 percent for high-school graduates. The idea that encouraging young people to go to college is really an attempt to lure them into indoctrination camps, or campuses, would be grossly insulting if it were not so comically paranoid. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Progressives have an obvious interest in seeing the Republican Party choose a weak nominee, but they shouldn\u2019t hope for Santorum. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">He would be <strong>the most extreme candidate since Barry Goldwater<\/strong> \u2014 and probably would suffer the same fate. But the nation can\u2019t afford to take that chance.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/rick-santorums-rhetoric-goes-to-the-extreme\/2012\/02\/27\/\">eugenerobinson@washpost.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/rick-santorums-rhetoric-goes-to-the-extreme\/2012\/02\/27\/gIQANEYFeR_story.html?wprss=rss_linkset\">Rick Santorum\u2019s rhetoric goes to the extreme &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Santorum\u2019s rhetoric goes to the extreme &#8211; The Washington Post By Eugene Robinson, Monday, February 27, 12:11 PM Something had to change \u2014 so, in recent days, Santorum\u2019s avuncular smile has become a nasty sneer. On Saturday, he attacked President Obama for advocating higher education. Yes, you read that right: Santorum came out against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/each-republican-front-runner-is-crazier-and-meaner-than-the-previous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Each Republican front-runner is crazier and meaner than the previous<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}