Tom Tancredo, the Republican demagogue who's promising to run for president until the Republican frontrunners swear they'll issue executive orders to shoot illegal immigrants on site, seems to be expanding his platform. Till now, it was just anti-Mexican. Yesterday, though, Tom branched out into national security:
Talk show host Pat Campbell asked the Littleton Republican how the country should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.
"Well, what if you said something like -- if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites," Tancredo answered.
"You're talking about bombing Mecca," Campbell said.
"Yeah," Tancredo responded.
Excellent. I'm sure the Muslim world is ecstatic to know that a band of nuts with Russian fissile material could provoke us to detonate Mecca. But happy as they may be, I know a man who'll be even happier, and should really think about signing on as Tancredo's running mate. Congressman Johnson? Step right up:
Speaking in front of an audience of veterans at Suncreek United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas, on February 19, Republican Congressman Sam Johnson let his listeners in on a conversation he'd supposedly had with Top Gun George W. Bush himself. “Syria is the problem,” Johnson said he told the president. “Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on ‘em, and I'll make one pass. We won't have to worry about Syria anymore.”
The Duke Nukem ticket? The doctrine of atomic diplomacy? These guys are an ad man's dream.
