The turning point, I believe, was a more emotional issue, that of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who brought Bush and his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to the barricades in 2005 to back legislation keeping her on life-support over the protests of her harassed husband. Autopsies showed the woman's brain was in a "vegetative state," and the cynical appeal to religious conservatives turned off huge numbers of voters. Polling at the time showed most Americans, of both parties, rejected the Bushes' campaign to "save" Schiavo, and were disgusted at the raw partisan appeal in a tragic case
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Where the right went wrong
One man's opinion from The Seattle Times, but it's an opinion I share.
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That was also one of (the many) undoings of Rick Santorum. He stuck his big, fat nose in the Schiavo affair.
We are so much better off.
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