Rudy is on top of the pile of the GOP “mine’s bigger than your’s” torture meme Presidential hopefuls. Yup, they really, really heart torture.

Rudy’s Torture Talk

The realization that life is not a movie has inexplicably yet to occur to Rudy Giuliani, despite the horrors of Sept. 11. Mistaking something he must have seen in the movies for real life, he mocked the alleged softies who condemn torture of any kind, saying of sleep deprivation, “They talk about sleep deprivation. I mean, on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States. That’s plain silly.”

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But in the chest-beating contest that has become the GOP presidential race, neither the efficacy of torture nor the damage it has done to America’s public image is questioned much. Along with Giuliani, both Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney think that only the excessively squeamish are appalled by waterboarding or the exceedingly bad rep of the Guantanamo Bay prison. They want Gitmo kept open — more Bush than the Bushies, in this case: The administration is looking to close it.