Why do Republicans like Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal fear to use the V word?
Why do they say “opportunity scholarship” when they really mean Voucher?
As with most everything else (as Gail Collins said in her latest book), the answer may be found in Texas.
Texas, as we all know, is a red red red state.
The next legislature is planning to take up the voucher issue.
It should be a slam-dunk, right, because Texas is a red state and Republicans love school choice.
But not so fast. It turns out, in a recent poll, that most Texans don’t want vouchers.
Most Texans want more money for public schools.
Even Republicans in the poll, by a 2-1 majority, want more money for public schools, not vouchers.
And that, dear readers, is why Republicans will not use the V word.
Even Republican voters don’t want vouchers.
They don’t want to blow up public education and hand it over to profiteers and religious institutions.
Democrats and Republicans alike want better public schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Michigan voters have consistently rejected voucher proposals when they came up for a vote — they know in their ♥ that you can’t run a public education system on Monopoly™ Money™ — but Voucher Capitalists never sweat the small stuff like the Will Of The People.
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Noticed on the Daily Show last night that their reporter Wyatt went to the capital as a puppet so he could ask the questions that were forbidden for human reporters to mention. Along with Drones and Syria, Education Reform was on his short list. He was thrown out before speaking. Why is the privatization of education the 800 lb. Gorilla in politics? Probably because it is being done against the will of the public.
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Vouchers allow religeous schools to score. That is what most of the private schools are afterall. These people are “True Believers” which means they will run over the cliff when told to do so. All they want is the destruction of public education for their financial friends benefits and to control young minds. They want the end of the “Separation of Church and State.” I say to them “Go to Iran” for a theocratic state if that is what you want.
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Utah is also a red, red, red state and we managed to overturn our Legislature’s attempt at them. If a state as red as that rejects vouchers, then why do the Powers that Be continue to try to pass them?
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