Can a liberal elitist be an intellectual?

One of the fall back positions of the liberal left is to denigrate the intellectual capacity of those who disagree with the left's positions on issues. If you are pro-life you have obviously never studied REAL science. If you do not believe that Al Gore is a true prophet, you must forecast the weather using tea leaves. If you don't believe that taxing the middle class and small business is the only way to achieve prosperity, you must be a fan Dickens' Scrooge and completely out of touch where true economics are concerned.

To the liberal elite, an intellectual answer is name calling and a reliance on circular reasoning. If a chink in that reasoning is revealed...get louder, drown out the argument. Socrates would be appalled. I have found that two sides is the barest minimum of views on any given issue. Given the complexity of this world, two dozen would be a closer approximation.

The so-called intellectuals put forth by the liberal elite have no more capacity to follow a trail of logic than those they ridicule on the neocon right. The problem I have with these micro cephalic wonders is that they refuse to even consider thinking out of the box. Liberalism has become their religion. Hatred of America and all it stands for...including the freedom they are given to oppose her...as a sacrament, right behind abortion.

I asked why no elitist intellectuals complained about the abuses of the Taliban against women. What was the answer? "I guess you don't know how to Google." Using a noun as a verb is not the way to begin an argument, regardless whether or not that grammatical error is common. A check using Google's search engine brings up nothing other than vague responses by the liberals when confronted with the Taliban's treatment of women. These "humanitarians" are far more incensed by Palin's motherhood than they are about an Afghan teenager being stoned to death.

ColumbiaUniversity, an icon of intellectual thought, invited Iranian President Ackminawhackjob (misspelling intentional) to speak. This same bastion of fairness has refused the ROTC to have a presence as well as other potential conservative dangers. How many Iranian dissidents has Columbia invited to speak? None. Can a liberal elitist be an intellectual? I don't know, to be a true intellectual means being able to think outside of the box. Liberals do not have that capacity and neither do Neocons. Both camps appear to be brain damaged, but the Libelites claim the intellectual label, in spite of the evidence to the contrary.

Liberals continuously blather on about civil rights, but they have always been the first to refuse the exercise of those rights to those who disagree with their stance on any given issue. To the liberal intellectual elite, you have the right to remain silent.