Seriously, this is becoming a full-time job. I’m trying to keep folks updated about only the most outrageously stupid things that the GOP presidential wannabes say, and it’s becoming incredibly time-consuming. On the plus side, the late-night comedians must be ecstatic.
The latest (that I’m aware of) comes from the sad sack from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, who let out this beauty on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on the question of John McCain’s stance on torture.
HH: Now your former colleague, John McCain, said look, there’s no record, there’s no evidence here that these methods actually led to the capture or the killing of bin Laden. Do you disagree with that? Or do you think he’s got an argument?
RS: I don’t, everything I’ve read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation. And so this idea that we didn’t ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they’re broken, they become cooperative.
Did you get that? Rick Santorum doesn’t think John McCain understands how torture works. Unbelievable.
Rick, in case you missed it, McCain is the only guy in the Congress who actually does understand how torture works. McCain has been tortured. He has personal experience the likes of which you, frankly, would not have survived. He gets it, and you don’t. And that is that.
Additionally, though it’s somewhat off-point, the fact appears to be that “enhanced interrogation” did not substantially aid in tracking down bin Laden.
Frankly, I doubt Santorum will run. He is yesterday’s news; he has little charisma; he won’t be able to raise enough money; and the so-cons are more interested in Michelle Bachmann. But this quote is so outrageous that it had to be noted anyway.
…with a daily visit to http://thinkprogress.org.
they are the ones who pointed out some of these! 🙂
There’s a spot for a Tea Party social conservative wingnut in the GOP primary, the question is who’ll be last man standing. I wouldn’t count Santorum out on that front, what with Huckabee gone and Palin as much a fake-candidate as Donald Trump. That leaves Michelle Bachman and Rick Santorum. Flip a coin.
They’ll still probably lose to whatever Snoozefest tries runs against the Tea Party, be it Willard or Pawlenty, though get out the popcorn, ‘cuz it’s going to be fun.