First came Mitt Romney’s dismissive remarks about President Obama’s “faculty lounge” pals. Now Rick Santorum is calling Obama snobby for urging people to go to college – and defending that view in a series of TV appearances. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Education — Schmeducation (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
“Don’t bother your miniscule head
\nWith college — don’t need higher ed.”
\nThat’s the Rick and Mitt screed,
\nThough they’re multi-degreed.
\nInformed-voters — yes, that’s what they dread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you know that higher education is snobbish and elitist? And that it causes liberal indoctrination? That’s the message we’ve been getting lately from Republicans like Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. They each have a trio of college degrees … but hey, who’s counting? In fact, why even bother learning to count? Yes, indeed, there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,885,21,20,126,6,7,3,9,1221],"tags":[2786,1851,1303,2764,1852,1856,1855,1853,1250,1854,2877],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-education-limerick","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rick-santorum","tag-campaign-humor","tag-college-humor","tag-education-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-higher-education","tag-informed-electorate","tag-informed-voters","tag-liberal-indoctrination","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republican-war-on-college","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}