GOP Crack-Up? Pardon My Guffaw (Mark Steyn: Republicans "Did the Right Thing" re: Schiavo)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 4/03/05 | Mark Steyn

[Soul Seeker]

The Republicans did the right thing here, and they won't be punished for it by the electors. As with abortion, this will be an issue where the public moves slowly but steadily toward the conservative position: Terri Schiavo's court-ordered death will not be without meaning. As to "crack-ups," that's only a neurotic way of saying that these days most of the intellectual debate is within the right. If, like the Democrats, all you've got are lockstep litmus tests on race and abortion and all the rest, what's to crack up over? You just lose elections every two years, but carry on insisting, as Ted Kennedy does, that you're still the majority party. Ted's quite a large majority just by himself these days, but it's still not enough.

He sums it up perfectly in this paragraph.

[alicewonders]

Always err on the side of life. Republicans did the right thing to try to stop this murder - although I tend to think they didn't go far enough - but I don't want to start that discussion again. In the long run, it will help the Republican's cause & hurt the Dims.

Steyn is right, there were alot of liberals that were appalled by the Schiavo killing too. The polls were rigged & now the American people are slowly realizing that.

[MrDem]

As Mark Steyne points out so well, the moderates, liberals, lefttists keep trying to pass out the propaganda that if the GOP stands on principle for right-to-life issues, it will hurt them. We hear the same garbage from all of the OPUS writers and those threatening to write them.

[Loud Mime]

thanks for the definition.....clarification is needed.

[alloysteel]

Norman Lear does endless replications of Archie Bunker conservatives and Mike "Meathead" Stivik liberals, cartoon representations no more realistic than the political caricatures of Ted Rall or Thomas Oliphant. The Lear enterprises have not presented an original thought since about the time of the Kennedy Administration, and that they stole from somebody else.

[KevinDavis]

I think a lot more disable people will be voting for the GOP.

[Saundra Duffy]

The notion, for example, that poor Terri Schiavo will cost Republicans votes in a year and a half's time is ludicrous.

I cut up my 2005 RNC card and sent it back to the RNC with a note. I'm outta there! Jeb Bush was the last man to turn his back on Terri and walk away leaving her there to die a heinous death while her family was forced to watch helplessly in horror.

And Judge George Greer is a REPUBLICAN who was supported for re-election (not that long ago) by REPUBLICANS in that neck of the woods.

I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! I have already re-registered "Decline to State".

I think whoever wrote this article doesn't have a lick of common sense.

[DCPatriot]

that vaunted 'WPPFF'

Aren't those the folks always roaring about how Republicans 'eat their own', yet they have no qualms in vilifying Tom DeLay and other Republicans who spoke up for Terri Schiavo?

I haven't vilified anybody in Congress or the White House. I'm glad President Bush made that gesture in signing that bill requesting the judges take another look at evidence.

But I didn't particularly care for the act of judge shopping.

We've heard the indingation about activist judges...yet that's exactly what the GOP leadership was praying for. With 70% of the population of mind that the GOP overstepped their bounds, I hope we survive this display of political pandering.

[beyond the sea]

Aren't those the folks always roaring about how Republicans 'eat their own', yet they have no qualms in vilifying Tom DeLay and other Republicans who spoke up for Terri Schiavo?

Yep, those are the ones. Aren't they rare birds? ;-)

[Recovering_Democrat]

ping for later read

[Maigrey]

As much as I am also disgusted by the events of the last 2 weeks, I can't afford to abstain from the fight. I will work from the inside, fighting tooth and nail to get reps who believe in life, and are willing to fight for it. If they don't, like the Specter's and Snow's of the government, then I will fight to get someone in there who will respect a constituent's wishes.

[Mark in the Old South]

bttt

[Saundra Duffy]

Good luck.

[PatriotGirl827]

"Aren't those the folks always roaring about how Republicans 'eat their own', yet they have no qualms in vilifying Tom DeLay and other Republicans who spoke up for Terri Schiavo?"

And they're also on every Terri thread debating and posting their opposing opinions, (which of course they are allowed to do) and then complaining that their is no room on FR any more for dissention.

I just never understood that argument.

[elcid1970]

These aristocratic-sounding surname-surnames were served up years ago by Edwin Newman in _Strictly Speaking_, when he published a list of college and university presidents with similar monikers. He proposed reading them out loud at parties to add to the jollification. My favorite was one `Forrest Brander Matthews'.

BTW, superb article by Mark Steyn. If the Dems had any sense (they don't) they would mark the forced death of Terri Schindler with the same words an English soldier cried out, when they burned Joan of Arc at the stake:

"We are lost! We have burned a saint!!"

[rodguy911]

The few times in my life when I have worked for others I finally made a rule, never leave a job, no matter how hideous until you have another one in mind. I'm sort of in that position with the pubbies now, the past week has been enough to make one wish to leave, but where do you go?

[gaspar]

As I recall, Princeton Lyman, an insufferable arse and know-it-all, had brothers Yale and Stanford. Elitist? Nahh.

[Bahbah]

As I recall, Princeton Lyman, an insufferable arse and know-it-all, had brothers Yale and Stanford. Elitist? Nahh.

Just LOL. Thanks for sharing that.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[BillM]

Right!! In a 2 party system you are giving half a vote to the Democrats. They want every conservative euthanized you will only help them!