Do you remember when Mike Lux had the good fortune to have a seat on Amtrak in front of Rick Santorum while Santorum made an endless string of phone calls trashing John McCain? Yeah, those were good times. Here’s a little slice of it:
After a while I got up to go get something from the café cart, and it turns out the guy sitting behind me was Rick Santorum, which makes it all the more fun and all the more interesting. So pretty much the whole trip this guy is working his cell phone, talking to people about how anyone is better than McCain and Giuliani would be better than McCain because then at least he wouldn’t betray the conservative movement… yeah, Giuliani is bad on some issues like abortion, but at least he would stand with the conservative movement. He was saying that there are people like Susan Collins who vote moderate sometimes, but at least she is a team player who always plays with the team and never plays against the conservative side even if she has to give the liberals a vote because she’s from Maine. But McCain will sometimes go against the team even when he doesn’t have to. Anyway, he’s just calling person after person after person on his list, trying to rally them against McCain to give money against him, be uncommitted to the national convention- apparently he was talking to some committed delegates- and he was thinking the best thing for the conservative movement would be a brokered convention, because then at least the conservatives would still have enough pull to pick the nominee.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising that Santorum doesn’t believe that John McCain knows how torture is supposed to work. Santorum went on the Hugh Hewitt radio program and said McCain, “doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they’re broken, they become cooperative.” After Greg Sargent called McCain’s office to get a response, they got a one-word answer:
McCain, of course, has direct experience of this process. He has even written that he did not become cooperative under “enhanced interrogation” at all, and in fact gave his tormentors false information to get them to stop.
So I asked McCain spokesperson Brooke Buchanan for a response to Santorum. She emailed a one word reply:
Who?
Perfect.
I think Ms. Buchanan is entitled to an answer, so I will provide it. Who, or what is Santorum?
The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.
Still number one if you Google his name.
