In the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, every Republican candidate — all of them — said that the Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell policy is working and that gays who are discovered to be gay should be booted out of the service.

None of them objected to gay Arabic translators being kicked out of the service even though we have a desperate shortage of Arabic translators to translate for our troops in Iraq and to translate intercepted enemy documents.

In other words: THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES THINK GAYS ARE EVEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN TERRORISTS. Let me put it another way: The Republican presidential candidates think kicking gays out of the service is a higher priority than national security.

Let’s lay out a scenario:

Some Al Queda terrorists manage to get into the United States and blow up a high school football stadium during a Friday night game, killing 6,000 people and seriously injuring another 3,000. Then, it turns out that the plot was detailed in a document still sitting in the inbox of a gay Arabic translator who was kicked out of the service for being gay. Had he not been kicked out of the service, he would have translated the document and the attack could have been averted.

Apparently, this would be perfectly OK with the Republican presidential candidates. Is this blatant bigotry or blatant stupidity?

Ultimately, it makes no difference. None of the Republican candidates for president are fit to hold the office.