Judges Worse Than Terrorists

At some point someone will answer the question of how people on the Right can get away with saying this stuff while people on the left can't get away with saying the equivalent. More importantly, when someone on the left makes an equivalently ridiculous statement not only are they drummed out of the public discourse, the entire Democratic party has to engage in weeks of self-flagellation.

Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.

"Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings," Robertson said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

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Confronted by Stephanopoulos on his claims that an out-of-control liberal judiciary is the worst threat America has faced in 400 years - worse than Nazi Germany, Japan and the Civil War - Robertson didn't back down.

"Yes, I really believe that," he said. "I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together."

Consider what would happen if I wrote:

Rick Santorum is a more serious threat to our country than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

Methinks my career as a pseudo-pundit would be over.