Comments on: Torture in the GOP debate http://sorendayton.com/2007/05/16/torture-in-the-gop-debate/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: neil http://sorendayton.com/2007/05/16/torture-in-the-gop-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-1539 neil Wed, 16 May 2007 14:25:34 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/05/16/torture-in-the-gop-debate/#comment-1539 You can't blame them for equivocating on this point, it seems. They're in between a rock and a hard place. Obviously, they can't say that Bush has been committing torture and that they would put an end to it -- the base would never stand for the repudiation. The candidates can't say they're in favor of torture, either (because of fear of elite opinion; polls indicate that the base would have their back). So they have to reiterate the Bush line -- we don't torture, so therefore, anything we do isn't torture. You can’t blame them for equivocating on this point, it seems. They’re in between a rock and a hard place. Obviously, they can’t say that Bush has been committing torture and that they would put an end to it — the base would never stand for the repudiation. The candidates can’t say they’re in favor of torture, either (because of fear of elite opinion; polls indicate that the base would have their back).

So they have to reiterate the Bush line — we don’t torture, so therefore, anything we do isn’t torture.

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