The Raw Story | Op-Ed: Republican candidates, base support 'un-American' policies: "New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says the leading Republican presidential candidates would run the country just as President Bush has, pursuing policies in conflict with the rule of law and the rigors of logic, including torturing terror suspects and conflating disparate threats facing Amercia.
'The principles Bush has betrayed are principles today's GOP, dominated by movement conservatives, no longer honors,' Krugman writes in today's column. 'In fact, rank-and-file Republicans continue to approve strongly of Bush's policies -- and the more un-American the policy, the more they support it.'
Krugman cited the enthusiastic response from the crowd at Tuesday's Republican debate when Rudy Giuliani endorsed waterboarding suspected terrorists and Mitt Romney called for doubling Guantanamo as evidence of the mood within the GOP base..."
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