regardless of if it would or would not keep us safe. be clear here, what congressman peter king said there, is that fact or his opinion that water boarding saves lives? it s neither fact or his opinion. it s fiction. to say it saved lives excludes any inclusion of a long-term negative effect. as i saw in iraq firsthand, the number one reason they gave for coming to fight is because of our torture and abuse of muslim prisoners and detainees. the foreign fighters made up the majority of suicide bombers. they killed hundreds, if not thousands of american soldiers. you cannot say water boarding kept america safe. you saw firsthand the reaction to water boarding and torture. it motivated to the point it
real assault. it wasn t until the last day or 36 hours of the new hampshire primary that he really started to take some fire. and now through this entire week here in south carolina, he has taken more fire. that has had a certain negative consequence for him and there are things he s done that have been unforced errors that have brought more scrutiny on to him. he is creating an image for himself. you talked about him as the monopoly guy, the guy with the top hat. i think it is two different things. you have the gordon gecko image and the richey rich image. they re both bad images to have. in a state like this, where the unemployment rate is in double digits where it is twice as high as it was in new hampshire and iowa, it had a more negative effect. finally on romney, i think the establishment has worried for a year that his biggest problem would be he could not take a punch. and like i said, he didn t take very many for that entire year.