In tonight’s Republican debate, Mitt Romney proposed doubling the number of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay. Why the love for Guantanmo?:

“I don’t want them on our soil, I want them in Guantamo where they don’t get the access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil. I don’t want them in our prisons, I want them there.”

Stupid USA and its Habeas Corpus! F***in’ 4th-8th and 14th amendments! Just get in the way of me lookin’ tough.

As Andrew Sullivan notes:

That is in itself a disqualification for the presidency of the United States. A man who has open contempt for the most basic rules of Western justice has no business being president.

I don’t know what’s scarier, Romney saying this bullshit and actually believing it, or Romney saying this bullshit because he thinks it’s what people want to hear.

UPDATE: Kudos to McCain for telling it like it is (in the same clip) and denouncing torture.