Santorum the Scaredy-Cat

OK, this sort of rhetoric is normally relagated to the fever swamps of conservative radio, but this week it has made quite the splash into the mainstream via incumbent Senator Rick Santorum.

Santorum, at a campaign event, abandoned all rationality and sense of proportion in order to say the following of Al Qaeda:

This is an enemy more dangerous than any we have faced in the 20th century. This is the fight of our time.

Wow, that is some powerful crazy.

Why are Republicans so afraid of our enemy? In no sense is Al Qaeda an existential threat to America, or anywhere even close. We should buy Republicans security blankets so they don't have to run into their parent's room to get away from terrorist nightmares.

(h/t TPMcafe)