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Sometimes I tell myself that I could swallow hard and support Ron Paul. Isolationism, despite its drawbacks, is certainly preferable to giving the country away to our enemies.

Anyway, that's what I tell myself every time I warm up to Ron Paul. Then he says something really, really stupid which brings me back to reality.

Last night, it was the Timothy McVeigh comment. For those of you who missed it, the topic was the war on terrorist and the inefficiencies of the TSA. Rick Perry proposed privatizing it. Rick Santorum proposed using logical profiling as is done in every sane country in the world. Ron Paul just could't help himself by shooting back a comment about how we wouldn't catch somebody like Timothy McVeigh who didn't fit the profile. Double face palm.

But it wasn't the first time Paul trotted out the corpse of McVeigh. He did it earlier in the debate by explaining how terrorism was a law enforcement problem and not a military operation problem. And how splendidly the law enforcement strategy worked on McVeigh.

Somebody remind me when McVeigh tried to blow up an airliner. Or a U.S. Embassy.