Stewart Baker has one:
Let’s conduct a thought experiment. Suppose Sheriff Dupnik had gone to the podium Saturday and said, “You know, hundreds of thousands of people violate the law in this county every year, crossing illegally into the United States. Some of them commit murders along the way. Arizona has become a Mecca for lawlessness. And yet for certain people the only question is when we should give amnesty to the lawless. That kind of talk breeds contempt for the law and for lawmakers. This was an individual with mental issues, and when you excuse one kind of crime on a mass scale it’s bound to make an unbalanced individual think that all crimes can be excused.” He would have been justly criticized for politicizing a law-enforcement investigation with a non sequitur. There was no evidence linking illegal immigration to the attack on Rep. Giffords. He’d have stepped down by now, amid a chorus of media catcalls.
No, he’d be Sheriff Joe Arpaio, celebrity lawman and hero to conservatives everywhere. That’s even if he wasn’t forcing immigrant detainees to wear pink underwear.
