Tea parties love candidates like Palin and WaLaker as they possess the same intellectual capacity as themselves. They are afraid of educated people because they don't understand them and faux news has conditioned them to be wary of science and intellectualism. Remember, Ebola will kill millions in the US, global warming is a lie, evolution is heresy, wealth will trickle down to the middle and lower classes, fluoridation of the water is a communist plot, immunization of children is a killer, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, And on and on, the anti-intellectualism of the far right is truly laughable, were it not so hideous.