McCain Aide: 'For Pure, Blind Stupidity, Nobody Beats Santorum'

By Susie Madrak
CrooksandLiars

This is really funny. Rick Santorum, never known for his brains, is called out by one of John McCain's aides for stating that McCain doesn't understand torture. Yeah, because unlike Rick Santorum, he didn't just read a story about it:

WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- GOP U.S. presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Tuesday John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war, "doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works."

During an interview on Hugh Hewitt's talk show on the Salem Radio Network, Santorum, a former Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, credited so-called enhanced interrogation methods with helping the United States track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

When Hewitt pointed out that McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and a U.S. senator from Arizona who spent years in a North Vietnamese prison camp during the Vietnam War, has said there is no such evidence, Santorum said everything he has read shows the trail to bin Laden began with "information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation."

(Original here.)