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Fred Thompson Is Finished
aim.org ^ | November 7, 2007 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 11/07/2007 7:41:35 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

On the matter of Terri Schiavo’s right to life, which occupied the attention of the media and Congress in 2005, Thompson called that a family decision, “in consultation with their doctor,” and “the federal government should not be involved.” Thompson added, “the less government the better.” ...

In the case of Terri Schiavo, a severely disabled person, there was a family dispute. Her estranged husband wanted her to die and he eventually succeeded in starving her to death. Her parents had wanted her to live. ...

There was no moral justification for killing Terri because she had an inherent right to life and there was no clear evidence that she wanted food and water withdrawn. The morally correct course of action would have been to let her family take care of her. Nobody would have been harmed by that.

“Meet the Press” host Tim Russert brought up the death of Thompson’s daughter, who reportedly suffered a brain injury and a heart attack after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. Apparently Thompson and members of his family made some decisions affecting her life and death. Thompson described it as an “end-of-life” issue.

Bobby Schindler says he doesn’t know what the circumstances precisely were in that case and that he sympathizes with what Thompson went through. However, he says that it is not comparable at all to his sister’s case.

“What no one is recognizing,” he told me, “is that my sister’s case was not an end-of-life issue. She was simply and merely disabled. Terri wasn’t dying. She was only being sustained by food and water. She had no terminal illness. She wasn’t on any machines. All she needed was a wheelchair and she could have been taken anywhere. She didn’t even need to be confined to a bed.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cliffkincaid; cultureofdeath; fred; fredthompson; nofireinthebelly; prolife; rinostampede; terrischiavo; thompson
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To: Hawk1976

You’d rather each state bow to a tyrant who murders babies and innocent handicapped women?


61 posted on 11/07/2007 8:16:31 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Fred is running second in the major polls. If he's "finished" we might as well just crown Rudy now and get it over with.

We need less drama and more reasoned thought if we are to prevent Rudy from becoming our nominee. Time is running out. Many are endorsing Rudy simply because they think his win is inevitable.

Fred is a solid conservative and even if he's not your first choice he would be, at very least, acceptable to most in our party. Let's get behind him and get this done before the only choice left to us is between Rudy and Hillary.

62 posted on 11/07/2007 8:16:31 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - President Fred D. Thompson /"The Constitution means what is says.")
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To: RockinRight

BTW, I really like your freeper page and agree with a lot of it. I just think you exaggerate some and end up fighting fiction in a few cases. That’s wasted energy.


63 posted on 11/07/2007 8:17:51 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: RockinRight

You said — “I still think though...that it is quite possible that God’s intent was to take her in 1991.”

If that was God’s intent, He would have succeeded in taking her...

Regards,
Star Traveler


64 posted on 11/07/2007 8:18:20 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: HerrBlucher

If Fred is the nominee then the GOP is finished! If the Republican party does not nominate someone who believes that the murder of innocent babies should be illegal, then a third party will! Nominating Fred is as good as voting for Hillary.


65 posted on 11/07/2007 8:18:40 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: RockinRight

He’s finished with me, for sure...

Regards,
Star Traveler


66 posted on 11/07/2007 8:18:55 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Perdogg

You said — “I could not understand why the husband couldn’t have just let the parents care for Teri. But he didn’t.”

Well, wasn’t there an issue of money involved. And also, don’t you know that you “bury your mistakes”. You don’t let them live...

Regards,
Star Traveler


67 posted on 11/07/2007 8:20:56 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Joann37
Would this be the same Bill O'Reilly that called Free Republic a hate site?

Bill O'Reilly is a buffoon who's outlived what little usefulness he ever had.

68 posted on 11/07/2007 8:21:04 PM PST by lesser_satan (READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON/ DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
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To: RockinRight
..."that it is quite possible that God’s intent was to take her in 1991."

Well, only God really knows the answer to that. One thing I know for certain, is that God had every chance to end Terri's life and chose NOT to do so.

Somehow to believe that starvation and dehydration are God's "natural" ways to end a person's life, is to have faith in an entirely different kind of God that I know!

God has permitted medical so save many who would have died but a few short years ago.

When Jehovah's Witness followers or even the Amish refuse medical treatment for their family members, the heavy hand of Government steps in and overrides their "choice" to refuse medical help.

Why would the same Government elect to save someone whom their own family chose to let Heaven care for yet in another case, order starvation and dehydration of yet another?

Believe me this was all about money, not about "right to choose" on the part of the family.

That her parents and brother desired her life to continue until God elected to take her and only her greedy husband, who desired to have her out of his life so that he would be free to marry his lover and enjoy what monies he had left out of Terri's settlement, tells me that this was NOT an issue that had anything to do with "family and doctor" advice.

69 posted on 11/07/2007 8:21:46 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: RockinRight

What?! Second place from bottom?


70 posted on 11/07/2007 8:22:06 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Tailgunner Joe
You’d rather each state bow to a tyrant who murders babies and innocent handicapped women?

The Constitution authorizes the Federal government to guarantee a republican form of government in the states, and that is the only authority it has over their internal decisions. This includes the state's sovereign rights to regulate murder within the state. Whatever you can say about Florida's government, it is a republican form of government.

71 posted on 11/07/2007 8:24:04 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Ron Paul Criminality: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/paul_bot)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Wow!! Fred killed Terri??? Just Wow!!


72 posted on 11/07/2007 8:24:12 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Next time take the whole prozac....thank you.

Fred’s Federalism is the best way to save innocent babies, your way just guarantees endless years of status quo. Get real, get a life, get on the Fred train to true conservatism.


73 posted on 11/07/2007 8:24:14 PM PST by HerrBlucher (He's the coolest thing around, gonna shut HRC down, gonna turn it on, wind it up, blow em out, FDT!)
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To: ozzymandus

Check out tonights video DUmmy Funnies, Rush gets the same treatment from the moonbat left


74 posted on 11/07/2007 8:26:09 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Star Traveler

Um...look around here. Unless you are willfully ignoring Fred’s poll numbers because your candidate is doing worse...


75 posted on 11/07/2007 8:26:33 PM PST by RockinRight (Just because you're pro-life and talk about God a lot doesn't mean you're a conservative.)
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To: Star Traveler

Why?


76 posted on 11/07/2007 8:26:59 PM PST by RockinRight (Just because you're pro-life and talk about God a lot doesn't mean you're a conservative.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The point is I’d rather not bow to a tyrant just because he gives me what I want. That is a trait best reserved for leftists.

I may not always agree with what the citizens of a state may decide in these matters, nonetheless I can respect their decision and urge them to change their minds.


77 posted on 11/07/2007 8:27:09 PM PST by Hawk1976 (747 superliners crashed into the WTC on 9/11, Steny Hoyer told me so on 8/7/07.)
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To: Perdogg
I could not understand why the husband couldn’t have just let the parents care for Teri. But he didn’t.

In order to get the money he had to kill the only witness. Just sayin

78 posted on 11/07/2007 8:27:15 PM PST by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He’s not much acting like a candidate.


79 posted on 11/07/2007 8:27:37 PM PST by mimaw
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To: RockinRight
"In fact he’s soon to be surging."


80 posted on 11/07/2007 8:28:05 PM PST by CheyennePress (Non Abbiamo Bisogno)
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