First, who said anything about Ivy League? Plenty of good schools out there teaching practical skills which operate under the radar...
So that being said, how do you feel about Harvard MBAs? :)
Or for that matter Harvard Law grads? We've got one who's Chief Justice, and a few more on the court, including one who wrote the Heller opinion...
I'm a little more partial to the Chicago School myself. Seen too many Harvard MBAs in my work life run things into the ground, it's that whole idea of "you can manage anything if you know how to manage".
Pat
Most of the Ivy Leaguers I've known over the years have been far from intelligent or educated. A Harvard degree has become a ticket into the elite echelons of society. That's certainly valuable to the recipients, but it isn't to be confused with an education. The students go there seeking to improve their social pedigree, and they don't learn much of anything besides politically correct liberalism and a sense of smug superiority.
We do not need more of that.
When we have folks looking down on an outsider woman from Alaska because she doesn't have the expected elitist pedigree ("her degree is in communications, well feh, she's just a beauty queen"), that's a major problem. We're now to the point where significant parts of the population are only willing to accept politicians from this narrow and limited set of ill-educated elitists. It's problematical when it happens once or twice, but we much beyond that point now. It's become an establishment, and it's become self-perpetuating.
We need to break that cycle, that establishment. We need someone who is as far removed from that establishment as possible. Palin is ideal. Her distance from that mess is one of her biggest assets.
