Carly Failorina joined South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham at SFO today to talk about their plans to protect Californians from demon sheep the Constitution. They want to have terrorists tried by military commissions and cut off funding for trying them in civilian court.

As you can see by the picture at right, tweeted by the Failorina campaign, most SFO travelers weren’t exactly captivated by the message. Nor should they have been, because it is based on distrust in our legal system and disregard for our Constitution.

If you stop and think about it, Fiorina and Graham are making a truly ridiculous proposal. Here’s why.

1. Does anyone really believe that a civilian jury would find someone like Khalid Sheikh Mohammad innocent? Other terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, Scott Roeder, Ahmed Ressam, and Ramzi Yousef were convicted and sentenced in civilian courts, as were several presidential assassins. It’s clear that the system works very well in bringing criminals and mass murderers to justice, and there doesn’t seem to be any real risk that someone like KSM would walk free. More significantly, if the government is convinced he is a terrorist, they should have no problem convincing 12 people of that fact.

2. Do Fiorina and Graham really believe that attacking the Constitution and the legal system is a winning move? The US Constitution is quite clear that people in our custody, such as KSM, have the right to a trial. That doesn’t mean we approve of what they did, it instead means we actually prefer to uphold our core values instead of freaking out and abandoning them the second we encounter a terrorist.

Fiorina’s basic argument appears to be that the legal system sucks, doesn’t work, can’t convict the guilty, and is basically not a reliable guarantor of our safety.

It makes you wonder why she even wants to be a part of that system. Oh, wait, now I remember: the 21st century Republican Party no longer believes in the American constitutional system that we’ve had for the last 223 years.