Giuliani to space aliens: Don't tread on us

Rudy Giuliani has had a simple game plan in pursuing the presidency -- offer himself as the candidate who best understands the threat posed by Islamic terrorists and is the most qualified to protect the country from them.

Sunday in New Hampshire, he went that one better -- pledging to guard against an attack from outer space.

As related by the Associated Press, Giuliani was at a town hall meeting in Exeter when a boy asked him: "If (there's) something living on another planet and it's bad and it comes over here, what would you do?"

Giuliani, noting that it was the first time he had responded to such a concern, said: "Of all the things that can happen in this world, we'll be prepared for that, yes we will. We'll be prepared for anything that happens."

For our part, we'd rest easier if he could assure us that no one in Hollywood ever again will sign off on a script resembling 1996's "Mars Attacks."

-- Don Frederick