What did Rick Santorum mean when he said "we will never have the elite smart people on our side"?

[Catherineなし見込みはない]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rick-sant...-our-side/

What do you think he meant when he said this?
So Rick Santorum (and you) think liberals are elite and smart? *blush* some might call that flattery...but why be against the people who you think are smart?
@Stretch: so Rick Santorum calls stupid people "elite smart people"? Conversations with him must get quite confusing...

[MedicalNinja]

As in liberal academic yuppies and bleeding heart Hollywood types. He was speaking to the people that live between New York City and LA that I like to call America.

[Stretch Armstrong]

Basically he was saying liberals will never have any common sense and wake up to the reality that their fiscal policies are destroying our economy....

Liberals like to consider themselves to be more "intelligent" than the rest of us...if they want to think this...that's fine with me...it doesn't hurt my feelings one bit...

But basically Santorum was saying (in a nice way) liberals are too stupid to see that they are truly screwing the country....

[Peace be upon you]

Global warming or supporting green energy is a deal breaker for many conservatives for some reason. I don't get it either, it would be so much more beneficial for the country to become a world leader in greeen energy production and technology. Many educated folks are in favor of green energy as well, this is a big source of the educated label for the left, but not he only source. It would even lead to a healthier economy which is what I thought Republicans are about. It seems we all have or little hang ups and false beliefs though, a good example of a false belief on the left is the idea that any form of gun control will solve anything.

[Alex G]

I think one of the comments to that link explain it nicely:

"if too many commoners learn to think analytically they'll become uppity. Then they'll expect a fair shake. Next they'll vote with their heads and look who will not be representing people. On the other hand, if public schools simply turn out good workers, and stop there, then there won't be all this bothersome social mobility."

Republicans are against higher education because educated people see the system for what it is (grossly and unfairly unequal) and will naturally demand a fairer system w/ less inequality, and therefor gravitate toward the Democrats.

Santorum was conceding that smart people in universities and the media will never support the Republican agenda of turning the US into Pakistan. "Church & family"... sounds like Pakistan right? Religion & family values, low/no taxes, big military, vast social inequality, crappy schools, no social services, no bothersome regulations on pollution, food quality, medical malpractice, etc. - so the super-rich can literally rape and kill the rest of the people, legally. This is what they want the US to become. Social Darwinism - survival of the fittest, just as "god" intended, before all these uppity "commies" came along, with their radical notions of equality, freedom, democracy, secularism, education, science, progress, equal opportunity, public education, etc.

And let's be clear about what "family values" really means - it means that if you were born into a super-rich family, then good for you, and if you were born into a poor family, then boo hoo - that's your lot in life, just like in the Dark Ages, with the medieval class/caste system. According to this worldview, rich people are born that way because "god" favors them, and the poor are damned because it's "god's will", and who are we to tinker with that natural order of things? So government has no business providing helping smart, ambitious poor people get educated or become upwardly mobile, and no business taxing the inherited millions or billions of those lucky ones at the top, no matter how stupid, unambitious, venal or downright criminal they may be. Again, just like Pakistan (or Mexico, Nigeria, take your pick of corrupt, feudalistic, social Darwinist third-world societies...)

Here's another great comment from that link:

[Santorum said, "“Without the church and the family, there is no conservative movement, there is no basic values of America.”

Translation:
We need a large group of gullible people to have any chance of winning, because most of the critical thinkers in our country are not buying most of what we're selling.]

[xpatinasia]

He thinks that liberal are intelligent and educated, unlike you and other conservatives.

[wtinc]

What he said was we will never have the media on our side because they align themselves with the elite smart 1%. He has a point you don't see the very rich smart 1% siding with the people in this country they always support the liberals. Look at Warren Buffett he follows the left around telling them what would be good for him. If has been that same 1% who gave the money to the DNC and Obama for the elections People like George Soros. These same elite 1% own must of the media centers in this country. Many of those elite rich from Hollywood all have supported the left even throw some have been trying to get us into another military conflict. Being a liberals does not make you smart it just means you are easily mislead.

[knightsaber1]

From my experiences in life, the terms "elite" and "smart people" haven't gone together too well.

[L]

Obviously he meant that anyone with a brain wouldn't vote for him

[Heidi]

Most of the answers here illustrate Santorum's point nicely...don't you think?