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Romney says government was wrong in Schiavo case
St. Petersburg Times ^ | March 11, 2007 | Adam C. Smith

Posted on 03/11/2007 7:40:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance

TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; elections; euthanasia; judicialtyranny; moralabsolutes; romney; romneyschiavo; schiavo; shiavo; terri; terrischiavo
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To: editor-surveyor

Sort of like cutting off the Ukraine's grain supply was an example of small government.

Remember, these people aren't trying to make any kind of coherent point. They're merely trying to cleverly turn yours against you. As they're instructed to do.


61 posted on 03/11/2007 8:06:51 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Hugo in a Pantsuit... I know, I know... it's serious.)
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To: shoebooty
"On account of Bill Frist the cardiologists's videotaped exam of her for 10 seconds."

Cardiologists? 10 seconds? Irrelevant.

The courts paid next to no attnetion to her condition (which was brain-injured but otherwise healthy, not in pain, and not terminal) and NO attention to her "self-evident" and "inalienable" rights under the Florida Constitution.

The lack of basic, fundamental legal protection for this woman --- and for other American men, women, and children similarly situated --- is a national disgrace.

And Romney should have kept his ignorant mouth shut.

62 posted on 03/11/2007 8:06:57 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The brain: the most complex object in the Universe, other than the Universe itself taken as a whole.)
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To: 8mmMauser
"Romney -- twin of Michael Schiavo" -- PING

"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.

63 posted on 03/11/2007 8:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Go to: http://www.TheVanguard.org)
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To: MovementConservative; All

Cause they where interfering in state matter...


64 posted on 03/11/2007 8:07:10 PM PDT by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
For a guy courting the right-wing, this was a bad, bad move.

Since when does the "right wing" want the government interfering in family business?

Do you want the government putting your daughters on birth control?

Keeping government out of personal lives means you have to take the good with the bad.
65 posted on 03/11/2007 8:07:27 PM PDT by msnimje (Anybody know of a good CONSERVATIVE website like the one Free Republic used to be?)
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To: shoebooty
SO who should have decided?

When Terri's parents objected to having their daughter starved to death and could get no redress from an out of control probate judge, they had every right to exercise their constitutional rights. And the governor and legislature had a right and a duty to act within their powers to address an area that, I believe was not clearly defined.

That being, may someone with power of attorney starve his ward to death?

66 posted on 03/11/2007 8:07:31 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: zarf
It was PURE politics. It was a strip tease for the base....period.

LOL!
perfectly put!

67 posted on 03/11/2007 8:08:26 PM PDT by Swordfished
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To: pillut48; All

There is no right to life in the Federal Constitution.....


68 posted on 03/11/2007 8:08:33 PM PDT by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: oceanview

I did learn that I'm going to have a living will and I'm going to specify that I want to be allowed to die but DO NOT starve me to death.


69 posted on 03/11/2007 8:08:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: msnimje
What if the CONGRESS told you that you should end the life of your child?

Rubbish.

70 posted on 03/11/2007 8:09:03 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Oh Geez. The fifth amendment pertains to Trial and Punishment, criminal proceedings.


71 posted on 03/11/2007 8:09:28 PM PDT by shoebooty
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

LOL.........did he ever HAVE you?


72 posted on 03/11/2007 8:09:34 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: KevinDavis

Oh, I get it. You must be pro-abortion as well. :*(


73 posted on 03/11/2007 8:10:01 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: shoebooty
The dude is right. This was no place for the government to get involved.

So you don't think the courts are "government." Huh?
The same "government" that decided Rowe v Wade and "takings" of private property and gun restrictions, and prayer in public schools, and Elian Gonzales deportation to Cuba and, and...

74 posted on 03/11/2007 8:10:18 PM PDT by vox_freedom (John 16:2 yea, the hour come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
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To: msnimje
What if the CONGRESS told you that you should end the life of your child?

Well, I'll burn up your straw man, if you insist.

If Congress did such an unconstitutional thing, they would need to be resisted by every other branch of government, and by every citizen. They would have made themselves lawless.

And that's the point in Terri's case. A local judge issued a literal death warrant, to be carried out by cruel and unusual means. Every individual who had raised their hand and sworn to uphold the constitution had an obligation to resist such an unconstitutional act with all their power and might.

75 posted on 03/11/2007 8:10:34 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (With "Republicans" like these, who needs Democrats?)
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To: AKSurprise
While I agree removing life-support was wrong,

Read up on the damned case and stop embarrassing yourself.

76 posted on 03/11/2007 8:11:05 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: shoebooty
Good ~ you vote for him.

That pretty much wipes him out of contention though.

77 posted on 03/11/2007 8:11:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: AKSurprise; All

You are talking to Selective Conservatives...


78 posted on 03/11/2007 8:11:25 PM PDT by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Interesting relevant article:

Brief Awakening From a Coma (fully conscious for 3 days after six years then relapses)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797899/posts


Brain damage doesn't come and go, she woke up, talked, ate, even gave an interview to the local TV station, after being in a vegetative state for six years.


79 posted on 03/11/2007 8:11:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Go to: http://www.TheVanguard.org)
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To: don-o

Her husband, no matter what we think of him, was LEGALLY her next of kin.


80 posted on 03/11/2007 8:11:38 PM PDT by shoebooty
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