I’ve been watching some of these Republican debates and they’re just terrible. Terrible. It’s embarrassing for me as a Republican to watch this stuff. What have been the big applause lines in these debates? Well, a statement that the governor of Texas is responsible for killing 234 people on death row. Or that we favor torture. Or that we’re creating a fence on the Mexican border that electrocutes people when they try to cross it. Or when people show up at the emergency room at hospitals and they’re not insured don’t treat them. And that, I mean these are the big applause lines, people just hoop and holler when they hear all that… And all of these people who are saying this and claiming that they’re for all this stuff, they also sort of ostentatiously say, “Oh, we’re very religious people. We really, we’re just very pious, Christian people.” They were for torture, and electrocution of the people along the border and all of that. That doesn’t have anything to do with, is contrary to the Christianity that I understand.
— John Danforth (Former Republican Senator: The GOP Presidential Field Is ‘Embarrassing’ | ThinkProgress)
