Bachmann at CPAC: Conservative Movement Is ‘Intellectual’ at Its Core | Mediaite

Our movement at its core is an intellectual movement. We are based on the greatest ideas that have ever been conceived in the mind of man ~ Michele Bachmann, 2014 CPAC

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After just finishing about Paul "I plagiarize because I have no original ideas myself" Ryan, I find this quite comical. Especially if you take into consideration, Rick Santorum's statement from the 2012 Values Voter Summit.

We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite, smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do.

So, which is it?

This coming from a party that is: anti-science (evolution and climate change), digs religious indoctrination,,,err, homeschooling, supports the anti-vax movement (some not all), is against stem cell research and usage, believes in the legends of a bronze age tribe of nomads and has blind faith in a 19th century economic theory that even the proponent didn't follow. Is that intellectual enough for ya?

I am reminded of an Op that the late Isaac Asimov penned in 1980,

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Bachmann at CPAC: Conservative Movement Is ‘Intellectual’ at Its Core | Mediaite