Santorum has backed away from this somewhat, but he has not apologized to McCain, who spent seven years as a guest of the North Vietnamese....
Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Torture
This won’t turn out well. Speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday, former senator and current GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum had some harsh words for his former colleague John McCain: "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works." Santorum supports the techniques, which are widely believed to be torture, so it’s only logical that he’d disagree with McCain, who has been outspoken in opposing them, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed and an impassioned Senate speech last week. But Santorum may have forgotten McCain’s history: while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, the decorated war hero was himself subject to torture. Santorum has never served in the military. Waiting for the walkback in three, two, one …
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Whether you agree with McCain's positions on this or not there really aren't statements that come much dumber than this one...
It reminds me of the time years ago when Howard Metzenbaum was running against John Glenn for the Democratic nomination for the Senate from Ohio. At one point in the campaign Howard said, "John Glenn has never had a job"....
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(He said later that he meant to say that "John Glenn has never run a business"....Metzenbaum lost to Glenn that year.)
