Why do the Republicans want suspected terrorists tortured so bad?

[NNN0LHI]

[TexasObserver]

1. The GOP mindset is punitive. Don't hug your kids, beat them!

[madokie]

2. The same gene that makes them become a puke to begin with

also makes them people of hate

[babylonsister]

3. To justify what happened under a rethug admin? nt

[KG]

4. even more distressing is that there seems to be no lack of motherfuckers ready to carry out torture.

[FSogol]

5. Because Jack Bauer and W are keeping everyone safe!

Actually because they are Sick fucks.

[Vinca]

6. They watch the tapes in the basement with their Sarah Palin blow-up dolls.

[Th1onein]

7. They want the fake information.

They want to frighten Americans. Americans will vote for them if they are frightened. And the best way to get these stories of radicals wanting to attack Americans is to torture them. That's why Bush did it, too.

[StreetKnowledge]

8. Racism probably has something to do with it.

18 months ago I probably wouldn't have said that, but seeing the Tea Party guys and some of the BS that has flowed from GOP members in the last year and a half, there probably is a racial element to it.

[Donnachaidh]

9. torture = Republican Viagra

and they don't have to pay for the prescription. :sarcasm:

[rocktivity]

10. I think it's because it justifites THEIR justification of doing it

Obama would be less likely to go after Bush for torturing if he were doing it himself, wouldn't he?


rocktivity

[Fumesucker]

14. How could Obama possibly be any less likely to go after Bush for torture?

We all know that the US will never prosecute Bush and there is only the slimmest of chances anyone else will.

[Odin2005]

11. Sadism and xenophobia.

[AlienGirl]

12. It makes them feel safer, because they identify with the torturer

Their mindset is essentially authoritarian, and they can't conceive of being anywhere but the power seat, so the more narrowly they draw their circle of ethical concern, the more control they imagine they have.

Tucker

[madrchsod]

13. being tortured is their worse fear....Room 101

[GoCubsGo]

18. And, they have so many fears

They are ruled by fear.

[lonestarnot]

20. Are you sure that room isn't 010?

:shrug: sounds more like the number for the GOPers.

[Mari333]

15. even better question..why do so many Dems still allow it to continue

[KittyWampus]

16. they are dominated by their reptilian mind. Their higher brain self hasn't been fully developed

so they are stuck on Us v. Them.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Reptiles don't torture each other.

Republican brains are nowhere near as advanced as those of reptiles.

[lunatica]

19. It titillates them

corporal punishment is hot!