Now I Stand for Stuff

People sure are ready to pounce on just about anything I say as a sign of what I stand for. I guess it makes sense, what with federalism being the only principle I have on the principles section of my website right now.

So, folks are talking about my call for a constitutional amendment to keep the states from making gay marriage legal. I know, it doesn't necessarily make sense alongside my commitment to federalism, but "principles" have to take a back seat to something that can really galvanize the GOP base. And nothing is going to make the backwoods hicks get off the pews and get in the voting booth faster than the thought of two men kissing at the end of a wedding ceremony.

And I don't know why so many people are chattering about a comment I tossed off in the course of an interview, that public dissent mean "we're going to pay a heavy price for it in the future." Folks, I'm too lazy to suppress your civil liberties. I promise.

I Can Lead the War on Terror

When you have an enemy so alien to your way of life, like we have in this War on Terror, you have to learn how to think like they think. And what better way to do that than to start living like they live?

I figured it out and spelled it out for folks in a recent speech:

We’ve got to do better, more committed, more united, more unified than we’ve ever been before. And yet you look at our responses some times as a people and that’s not the message we’re sending out. ... When you look at our court system which does not make a distinction between terrorists and an average criminal in the US court system. And warning them of their rights and you can’t prosecute them unless you do, and have you telling them everything in open court and giving them discovery so they have access to and can take advantage to all that information. We are often times in our system not acting like we are serious.

The debate with regard to surveillance. Some people have a lot of problem with us surveilling international telephone conversations when Al Quada suspects are allegedly on the other end of the line. But yet it’s done begrudgingly in increments with great debate and fanfare. It’s an indication to friends and foes alike that our memory of 9/11 and of whets been happening to us for a long time has not had full impact yet.

That's right. If they hate our way of life, our liberties, our freedoms, what better way to get ourselves thinking like them than to take away our own liberties and freedoms? And if they hate us for our freedom, then we'll just have to start hating our own freedoms. It's sheer genius.

Protesters Can Get Really Scary

OK, so CNN is all up in my ass about the so-called civil rights of that Ron Paul freak who was inserting herself in the press gaggle.

Just watch this handy YouTube video. You can see as plain as day that I was definitely threatened.

There was just no other choice, obviously, than to eject her before she did something really unspeakable to the future president.