Quickies-- GOP Debate Edition

Just flipping through channels watching tonight's GOP debate is like watching an episode of Jerry Springer.  I just keep waiting to see who will say the stupidest thing next.

• Never to disappoint in her complete idiocy, Michelle Bachmann claims Iran has threatened to nuke Israel.  There's just one thing wrong with that.  Iran has never threatened to nuke any country.
• Herman Cain's reasoning behind why we need to have a tougher more macho manly policy against Iran is because Iran has a lot of mountains.
• Bachmann says terrorists shouldn't be read their Miranda Rights.  "They don't have rights," she claims.  Of course the Constitution says otherwise.
• Rick Perry says we need a new Monroe Doctrine to protect Iran from getting into South America.  No I'm not making this up.
• Yes these people really are running for President of the United States of America.  It's scary to think that one of them will actually get about 47% of the vote next year.
• As Think Progress notes, almost the entire debate supposedly structured around foreign policy has been put into the hands of the right wing American Enterprise Institute and the right wing Heritage Foundation-- two of the top neocon think tanks that delivered us the war in Iraq and who routinely call for the continuation of Bush's Endless Program.  In other words, people who have absolutely no track record of ever being right about foreign policy are dictating the debate.  Wheeee!!

From the little bit I've watched tonight one thing is really certain, Republicans want Americans to live in constant fear. We should fear Muslims, terrorists, Iran, the ACLU and anyone who disagrees with the GOP. A world of fear protected by people who only vote Republican is what they want. We had 8 years of that with George W. Bush. That's given us 10 solid years of war, an economy in the dumps, a trillion dollar deficit and a trillion dollar bailout of Wall St. We can't go back to that. No one wants it.