Have the R's been kidding us all along?

So we need to violate human rights at home and abroad, spend trillions on defense, and fight an absurd war in Iraq ostensibly to protect national security in a dangerous post-9/11 world? But when John McCain chooses a potential successor, he picks a short-term governor of Alaska who is not sure what the Vice President does? Doctor Drivel humbly suggests that if we are secure enough to go along with the latter course, it is finally time to abandon the former.