I know where I’m NOT sending my kids to school.
Earlier today a Stanford student wrote this of Republican Candidate Ron Paul in The Stanford Daily. The obligatory wave of Paul supporters rushed in to leave their detraction’s in the comments listed below the article.
Some of the comments:
“Perhaps if you spent as much time contemplating Paul’s stands on the issues as you do cooking up flavorful ad hominem attacks (Or not so flavorful– “Paul is insane”) you might have found some common ground with him. ”
“I thought Stanford is also a “Research Institution,” no?”
There is something dissapointing about a student at Stanford (ranked 4th in the nation) that would publish this:
“Paul’s views are a contradictory hodgepodge of conservative and libertarian positions. He opposed the Iraq War but supported Afghanistan. He’s strongly pro-life but vaguely pro-gay-marriage.”
It may be particularly disappointing to the Federalist or Constitutionalists to hear an educated person decry Paul’s efforts to protect the life of the unborn while refusing to use federal power to force a definition of marriage on the states. What’s worse is the implication that, if Paul opposes gay-marriage in his private judgment, he must seek to abuse the power of the president to force that judgement on others. It is a threat to the ”institutions and values that have brought the United States to where it is today” when even the educated see nothing wrong with such a fallacious assumption.
Perhaps Stu will come around. Consider this comment: “Then again, he is graduating in 2009, he still has a lot of growing up to do.”