I've been hard on the Senator for his laxity on illegal immigration. I've been even harder on him for McCain/Feingold and that dastardly "Gang of 14."
But it takes moxy to be like this, given the fact that the the Democrats are legitimately afraid of such a posture. And even more significantly - so are our foreign enemies.
Of course there are some decent reasons why an "air-mail message to Tehran" might be merited.