During a three-hour tirade about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to transfer five detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States for criminal prosecution, Rush Limbaugh attacked the “dangerous” “ideologue” Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), who in a Fox News interview that day discussed his support of Holder's decision.

Sestak's “dangerous” comment was expressing faith in the U.S. criminal justice system, saying that “we don't have to bend our ideals to defend them.”

Now you may be asking yourself, “What does Congressman Sestak know about defending America and its ideals?”

It turns out, a bit more than Rush Limbaugh. See, prior to joining Congress, Sestak spent 31 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a two-star admiral. During his career, Sestak rose to the rank of three-star admiral where he commanded an aircraft carrier group, in part conducting combat operations in Afghanistan. On point to the current discussion, in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Sestak was put in charge of “Deep Blue,” a Naval think tank devoted to anti-terrorism. You know, thinking about ways to defend America and its ideals from terrorists.

I'll leave it to you to decide if anyone here is a dangerous ideologue.