Another Ivy League Elitist, Kevin Strouse

But not good enough for Kevin Strouse???

It wasn't more than a couple weeks ago that people were snickering about Princeton alum Ted Cruz's elitist attacks on students from "lesser" Ivy League schools. GQ broke the story but it got pretty wide play considering how abruptly Cruz shoved himself into the national spotlight with his jihad to shut down the government. For instance, the NY Daily News was quick to label him an elitist

Ted Cruz might play a down-home Texan but turns out the firebrand Republican was an elitist Ivy Leaguer back in the day.

The Princeton grad held the bar high while a student at Harvard Law, refusing to study with pariahs who hadn’t done their underground at Harvard, Princeton or Yale, according to a GQ profile of the first-term Senator.

“He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown,” Damon Watson, a law school roommate of Cruz, told the magazine… It’s not clear if Cruz ever cozied up with McCain.

McCain attended the United States Naval Academy and has no Ivy League stripes to his name.

Of course, people can say that was a long, long, long time ago or that how could anyone expect Cruz to turn out differently considering his sociopathic father, Rafael (who was rushing around the country this week threatening to work on primaries against the 25 Senate Republicans-- i.e., most Senate Republicans-- who ignored or disdained his son's antics and voted against shutting down the government).

The ex-CIA analyst the DCCC dug up to run against Michael Fitzpatrick in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA-08), Kevin Strouse, isn't as old as Cruz but he's just as much an Ivy snob. Or maybe he just hates women? But he sure hated Barnard women when he was at Columbia University! I remember that some of the smartest and most accomplished women in my high school, including the valedictorian went to Barnard. This article that Strouse wrote for the student paper, the Spectator sounds host elitist and misogynistic to me, every bit as vile as Cruz. No wonder Steve Israel recruited him!

Student government has done some fine things lately. With the urging of many concerned-- and scared-- students, our elected representatives voted to keep Barnard out of our dorms. Phew.

I don't think we should stop there. I know plenty of Barnard people living in our dorms right now. I think we need to organize a vigilante squad and run them off campus, back to that school of theirs. When we've done that, we'll go to the classrooms and purge them from there, because we can't have them polluting our education. Finally, we'll lock all the gates and only give keys to Columbia students. Only then can Columbia ensure our safety.

I think what the council was trying to reaffirm was that we here at Columbia are a better breed. And some individuals in the student government let their actions illustrate that notion.

Barnard is the most selective women's college in the country and the most difficult of the Seven Sisters to get into. The average GPA of the class of 2013 was 94.6 on a 100-pt. scale and 3.84 on a 4.0 scale. I'm sure none of them are as brilliant and accomplished as Strouse but Barnard alumni include Laurie Anderson, Laura Flanders, Suzanne Vega, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Erica Jong, Christine Wang, Maria Hinojosa, Martha Stewart, Twyla Tharp… and Joan Rivers. In his quest to win a House seat, Strouse is running against… a woman, Shaughnessy Naughton, who Steve Israel is trying to knock out of the primary.