The New Repubs Education Profile.....

Is Texas Really a State of Mind? The Professor May Disagree.

By Lee Hockstader

Washington Post Staff Writer

ALPINE, Tex. --. Sechrest, 56, is a jowly, acid-tongued economics professor at Sul Ross State University, an institution best known for producing schoolteachers and rodeo performers. In January, Sechrest published a 7,000-word article in Liberty, a tiny libertarian journal, titled "A Strange Little Town in Texas." After dispensing with the things he likes about Alpine -- great climate, clean air, awesome scenery, low crime rate, friendly locals, frontier spirit, robust theater scene -- Sechrest came to his main point. "The secret problem is that the students at Sul Ross, and more generally the long-term residents of the entire area, are appallingly ignorant, irrational, anti-intellectual, and, well . . . just plain stupid," he wrote. He dissed his students and neighbors as "some of the dumbest clods on the planet," and his fellow faculty members as "mostly a waste of space." As for the local schoolkids, many "are only a notch above retardation,"

Nothing galvanizes a group of dopes like persecution. (see Repub roll-out of Palin, which relied on making sure she was a victim.) Such that, true as this article may be, it will just raise the hackles of the dumb, and make them that much more for McCain…

Alas, this article explains why we have Bush, and perhaps will get President Palin. The nation has lost it’s way. Was it the education system, or the fact that some folk are just plain stupid?