Hugh Hewitt: All right. Now, I want to switch to a couple of subjects on you here, Governor. Your colleague up north, or to your west actually, George Pataki, is blasting Hillary Clinton this afternoon, who was blasting Karl Rove for his remarks about 9/11, and the liberals’ response. George Pataki said quote, I think it’s a little hypocritical of Senator Clinton to call on me to repudiate a political figure’s comments, when she never asked Senator Durbin to repudiate his comments. Senator Clinton might think about her propensity to allow outrageous statements from the other side, that are far beyond political dialogue, insulting every Republican, comparing our soldiers to Nazis or Soviet gulag guards, and never protesting when she serves with them. Your response to this whole kerfuffle with Rove, and Hillary, and Durbin, and now Pataki.

Governor Mitt Romney: Well, Durbin is just completely off the reservation. There’s no question about it. This…what has happened over the last several months is that the liberals have decided that torture is going to be, if you will, defined down. That speaking badly of someone is somehow torture. And I was brought up hearing stories about bamboo under fingernails, and other terrible forms of torture, and breaking arms and legs. That’s torture. And don’t pretend that not giving somebody three meals a day, and giving them a nice, soft cot is somehow torture. And likewise, the idea that when we are at war, and people are trying to attack our country and overthrow our country, that we should somehow be concerned about providing lawyers for these people down in Guantanamo, as opposed to treating them as warriors of the opposition, it’s a nutty idea. And, you know, I think Durbin is to be distanced, that he’s somebody who every Democrat should say he is absolutely wrong, and I think Karl Rove is engaging in the normal rhetoric which we make, which is that liberals look at 9/11, and now they’re talking about something that John Kerry said, which is that this should be handled as a legal matter. Well, I don’t agree at all. This is instead a war.

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