Are the Tea Party Candidates Anti-Intellectual? Yes. Part 4: Rhetoric and Governance

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This is a guest post by Jon Winsor.

This is my fourth and last post dealing with whether the tea party candidates are anti-intellectual. Again, I think you can consider them anti-intellectual. But you have to be careful not to confuse anti-intellectualism with not being intelligent or resourceful. (See my first three posts here, here, and here.)

In this last post, I'll deal with the potential argument mentioned in my third post, that anti-intellectual rhetoric d...