I’m a little inclined to agree with Fred over the Terri Schiavo question.
I think Terri was murdered, and that the Florida judge was an accomplice to the murder. But it wasn’t the job of the Federal government to intervene, it was the job of the state governor. It seems to me that that is the proper conservative, constitutional position on that fiasco.
Jeb Bush is Catholic and pro-life, but for some reason he just didn’t follow through on this. He had grounds to act as governor, but he folded in the crunch. I fault the local bishop for his failure to do the job, and I fault former governor Bush for his failure to do his job. I believe the question Fred was asked was whether the Feds shouldn’t have done more to intervene. That may well have been a trick question, meant to entangle him between the conservative issues of federalism and pro-life concern. The obvious, and honest, answer is that the question is complicated and needs further study.
Exactly right.