Magical torture scenarios

I don't really care if he's doing it all for show or for the "swing vote," but I actually respect John McCain when he says that torture is absolutely unacceptable as a United States interrogation technique. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, can sit on a tack. What a disgrace. Why did people clap for this buffoon alone? Also, I like how Guiliani and Romney's random assertions of "Not torture! Not torture!" are supposed to magically make it so. I mean, I buy into speech act theory, but that is ridiculous.

Here's what I'm talking about.