Ivy-Beleaguered No Longer?

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Investors Business Daily:

Elitism: The candidacy of Rick Perry and the rise of the Tea Party have produced a strange side effect: Some Ivy League-educated elites are worried about losing privileges.

At the American Medical Association's annual conference in Chicago two years ago, President Obama got booed when he told the crowd, "I'm not advocating caps on malpractice awards."

Of all the things to go out on a limb over, why that? The answer has more to do with lawyers than doctors. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America — trial attorneys being the main beneficiaries of malpractice awards — has bestowed tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions over the decades, about 90% to Democrats.

Obama sent a message to those ambulance chasers: I'm your man. But for them, it seems, there is also a man to destroy: Rick Perry.

Politico reports that "if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him." Reporter Alexander Burns writes that "among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred — and fear — as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs' bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor."

Unlike George W. Bush, who as president failed to repeat his extensive Texas tort reform achievements, his successor as Lone Star State governor isn't an Ivy Leaguer who wears cowboy boots. Perry is an Aggie, not a Yalie, and those who have a lot to lose think he's got a loaded six-gun to go with the hat and footwear.

Is the Tea Party movement right in its distrust of graduates of elite schools, Republican and Democrat alike? Will a real return to the principles of our Constitution happen only when the Ivy Leaguers are removed from power?