"Well, my first answer for that is we need to utilize the National Guard as much as we can. But I will tell you, if you have foreigners who are sneaking in with drug cartels, to me that is a national threat. "And if we've got to go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for a little while to make our point, I don't have a problem with that, either."
GOP congressional candidate eyes 'laser' attacks at border
A North Carolina Republican - who's very likely to win - is open to launching a war against Mexico -- with lasers.
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The race in North Carolina's congressional district isn't likely to be competitive. It's one of the reddest districts in a red state, and a conservative candidate named Mark Walker (R) is well on his way to becoming a freshman congressman next year.
And so it's of interest that Mr. Walker held an event in the district earlier this summer, where he fielded a question from a voter who asked about the possible use of military force "to secure our southern border." The congressional candidate replied:
This actually drew considerable applause from attendees.
In fact, when the applause died down, someone in the audience added, "I hope you wouldn't have any qualms about starting up a little war with Mexico." Walker responded, "Well, we did it before, if we need to do it again, I don't have a qualm about it."
I realize that an anti-immigrant posture has become the norm in Republican politics, with many candidates fighting for position to be more extreme than the next, but North Carolina's Mark Walker, a Baptist minister by trade, may be the only GOP candidate in the nation who's open to literally starting a war with Mexico -- complete with lasers.
Michele Bachmann will be out of Congress at the end of the year, but the radical torch will be passed to a new generation of extremists soon enough.