I'd never vote for him. Because of Teri Schiavo, I wouldn't even think about it.
Well, he at least opposed it. I was there at the vigil, and it was down to the wire: would he call out the State Police to rescue her, or would he let the Tampa/St Pete establishment get away with their threats to ring the hospital and shoot at anybody who came in?
Virtually all of them there are Scientologists, like her husband - she supposedly collapsed and entered into a coma during a Scientologist “purifying” starvation.
I was standing there when we thought that gunfire would break out, because the local police had surrounded the place and the only question was whether the Governor and the State Police would come in. But Bush didn’t do it, because he felt it would provoke a constitutional crisis, and I’m sure, also because he felt there would be deaths.
So unless you were there at this unreported event - which I did witness, and the press did not report, even though there were more press than demonstrators (where were you?) - I think you should reconsider your remarks. He did what he felt he could - but even the special bill he tried to get through the Florida legislature was destroyed...but a Republican, the odious Speaker Jim King.
As I said, I don’t think he’d be a good presidential candidate, especially now that he has become so conciliatory, but don’t smear him for something in which he did the best he could.