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Our Republican choices

By pharyngula on November 25, 2010.

So North Korea is rattling the sabre again, and I'm hoping some serious, mature people on our side will step up and act responsibly…but I'm pretty sure we won't find those people on the Republican side. So far, their responses range from the stupid to the evil.

Here's Sarah Palin babbling away on the Glenn Beck show (Can you guess that this is the stupid part of the range?)

CO-HOST: How would you handle a situation like the one that just developed in North Korea? [...]

PALIN: But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. We're bound to by treaty -

CO-HOST: South Korean.

PALIN: Eh, Yeah. And we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.

I really think calling North Korea was nothing but an accidental slip of the tongue, but even without that, the totality of her comments are vacuous, simple-minded chit-chat. And this insipid person wants to be president?

At least she's better than the odious Glenn Reynolds.

JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: North Korea fires artillery barrage on South. If they start anything, I say nuke 'em. And not with just a few bombs. They've caused enough trouble -- and it would be a useful lesson for Iran, too. We can't afford another Korean war, but hey, we're already dismantling warheads. . . .

Yeah, because the oppressed people of North Korea deserve to have the flesh seared from their bones in a nuclear hell. You might be able to easily convince me that the ruling dynasty of that sad country deserve it, but civilized people don't commit such barbarities, and especially don't commit them indiscriminately against entire populations.

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