You know, when Senator Hatch said that all he ever needed to know about global warming he read in a fiction novel (that you buy in the FICTION SECTION of the book store) written by the same guy who gave us the gray killer super monkeys, I really think he got off light.

Let me tell you why:

This is from an article in the Courier Times from PA:

Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.

Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1950s fantasy classic “Lord of the Rings,” to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.

Granted, this is almost as bad as Global Warming from a novel, not quite as bad as being hunted by “The Devil”, and it’s well, well short of blaming the child victims of a predatory Congressman, but, on it’s own in an election year like this, it’s totally weird.

Better yet was the response from the Democratic Challenger’s office (Bob Casey Jr.):

“You have to really question the judgment of a U.S. senator who compares the war in Iraq to a fantasy book,” said Casey spokesman Larry Smar. “This is just like when he said Kim Jong II isn’t a threat because he just wants to “watch NBA basketball.’ ”

Anybody else see the brilliant little thing Mr. Smar did there? Mr. Smar, ladies and gentlemen, is on the ball. Good work, buddy.

Read the rest HERE.