Dean Says Democrats Will Make Schiavo Case an Election Issue

LAT ^ | Apr. 16, 2005 | Michael Finnegan

[FairOpinion]

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's role in the end-of-life debate will be a main target, the DNC chairman says at a West Hollywood breakfast.

"This is going to be an issue in 2006, and it's going to be an issue in 2008," Dean told about 200 people at a gay rights group's breakfast in West Hollywood, "because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not? Or is that going to be up to your loved ones?' "

In his breakfast speech, sponsored by Access Now for Gay and Lesbian Equality, Dean also took issue with fellow Democrats who had voted for proposed constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage.

[FairOpinion]

D stands for Dean, Democrats, and Despicable. How appropriate.

[FairOpinion]

Dems using Terri's murder for political gains -- PING.

[Echo Talon]

erri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections

Wow, now whos using this for political gain?

[goldstategop]

They'd use a dead woman as a campaign issue? Let 'em. It will backfire on them in the '06 elections.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[FairOpinion]

I guess Dean doesn't know this:

Schiavo Protesters Not All Christian Conservatives

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/2005/articles03/schiavo_protesters_not_all_chris.htm

"Smith, 65, had polio as a child and described herself as a lesbian and a liberal who had demonstrated before in support of the disabled and causes supported by the conservative establishment's arch foe, the American Civil Liberties Union.

She said she thought that people who left written instructions to withhold medical treatment should have those wishes honored, but that withholding water and nutrition from Terri Schiavo, who left no such written instructions, was tantamount to murder.

"At this point I would rather have a right-wing Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member," Smith said."

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/2005/articles03/schiavo_protesters_not_all_chris.htm

[Democrap]

Dean Says Democrats Will Make Schiavo Case an Election Issue

Bring it on.

[Mo1]

BRING IT ON DEAN!

Btw .. when is Dean gonna come out of hiding and do interviews on TV??

He hasn't been on the Sunday Morning shows since he got the top DNC job

[Navy Patriot]

Dean is so important, just ask him.

[FairOpinion]

I think the Dems don't realize how much real support there was for Terri, and not just among "right wing Christians".

Why Schiavo case worries the disabled

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1372011/posts

"For those of us in the organized disability rights movement, it looks like Schiavo is being put to death for the crime of being disabled."

[FairOpinion]

Dean is the head of the DNC, the "face" of the Democrat Party and what a face it is, especially when it screams...

[ScaniaBoy]

Dems using Terri's murder for political gains

For political gains?

I don't think so...

[West Coast Conservative]

This will backfire pretty bad on the Dems if they are stupid enough to use it as an issue.

[FairOpinion]

He is so despicable he actually said THIS:

"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political controversy.

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Note that he didn't even say, use the case, or the decisions, or the actions of Republicans, he actually said he is going to "use Terri Schiavo".

[Mo1]

I guess Dean doesn't know this:

This case reached across party lines

Dean is making a HUGE mistake of making this an issue for the elections

[goldstategop]

Exactly. I think Mad Howard put his foot in his mouth. He doesn't realize or care how callous, stupid, contemptible and crass it makes him sound. Americans don't go there. Whatever people's feelings about the propriety of Congressional intervention in the case were, the Republicans at least did it for a principled reason. The Democrats are going to be seen as expoiting Terri Schiavo for partisan gain. And that's going to really hurt them in Red States. If the Democrats want to be beaten on values, I definitely encourage Mad Howard to lead his party into uncharted territory.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Gil4]

Another one of those "please don't throw me in that brier patch" threats.

[xJones]

I wonder if they realize that this is only a Beltway created pissy fit? Most people, certainly most Texans, don't care in the least about this latest D.C. Beltway media-driven nonsense. They can't have DeLay's head, and will end up very disappointed. Too bad...

[goldstategop]

The Democrats are sounding like rabid dogs foaming at the mouth. I think I'll sit back and watch them self-destruct. When your enemy is in the process of going under, its best not to help him out of his predicament.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Nam Vet]

WOW ! I just love the new DNC Head Bull Moose. He just keeps on giving. You would think a prerequisite to head the dims would have an I.Q. above room temperature. The gift that keeps on giving.

Nam Vet