The Constitutional Law Professor.

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The Constitutional Law Professor.

This comment from Sarah Palin at a Tea Party rally in Nevada got a lot of snickers over the weekend:

In these volatile times when we are a nation at war, now more than ever is when we need a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor lecturing us from a lectern.

So does this mean the "Constitution-loving" Tea Partiers are hypocrites? Not really, if you consider that only a liberal elitist would need a professor to teach them what the Constitution means, because Real Americans know it's just "common sense," which is another way of saying the Constitution says whatever they want it to say depending on the issue. Palin is just reminding the audience that the president is a weakling who thinks laws matter when it comes to killing Muslims suspected of being terrorists.

This line of argument, of course, starts to fall apart when the Tea Party types start asking real lawyers to file lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the health-care bill. The Constitution is just common sense right? So why do you need Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to litigate the constitutionality of the health-care bill? Because we're all elitists once it's time to get something done besides punching hippies in the face.

-- A. Serwer