Can a liberal elitist also be an intellectual?

One of the typical fall back positions of the liberal left is to denigrate the intellectual capacity of those who disagree with their 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 by using tea leaves and live in a cave furnished with animal skins. If you don't believe that taxing the middle class and small business is the only way to achieve prosperity, you must be a real fan of Dickens' Scrooge and completely out of touch where true economics are concerned. As Van Jones called out to a questioner, "How's that capitalism working for ya?"

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To the liberal elite, an intellectual answer is achieved by the tactics of name calling and a reliance on circular reasoning. If a # in that reasoning is revealed...then you get louder and drown out the argument. Socrates would be appalled, but how many liberals even know who Socrates was? I have found that two sides is the barest minimum of views on any given issue. Given the complexity of this world, two dozen to two billion 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 does a bloodhound with a sinus infection. In fact, I doubt a single member has an effective IQ greater than room temperature. The problem I have with these microcephalic wonders is that they refuse to even consider thinking outside 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...is a sacrament, right behind that of abortion. I asked a liberal commentator why no elitist intellectuals complained about the abuses of the Taliban against women. The answer was typical, "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 has become common. The proper language is, “to use Google”. 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 Sarah Palin's motherhood than they are about an Afghan teenager being stoned to death. You can find nothing about their concern over the African tribal ritual of genital mutilation of young girls. No, of far greater import is whether or not an American school girl violated the first amendment in a commencement speech. Yes, I can see where using a religious phrase in a school speech is a real danger to our country. Columbia University, 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 think so. To be truly intellectual means one has the capacity to think outside of the box, to use your imagination and learning capabilities effectively and to be able to grow in that capacity. Liberals do not have that ability. Hope and change? I don’t think sliding back to the wonderful days of the early 1930’s is change that brings any hope. I don’t think filling our schools with a forced emphasis on diversity over core educational skills is a change for the better. Is it intellectual superiority that has created more illiterates than any other political philosophy since that of Pol Pot? And yet liberals such as David Broder, Joe Klein, Maureen Dowd, Michael Kinsley and far too many others all claim intellectual superiority 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 only one constitutional right, the right to remain silent.