;-) You're welcome. And thanks for the compliment! (we've got to cut all this thanking stuff out,lol)
But like I said, I'd been posting general thoughts along these lines the last few days on unrelated threads, yet I hadn't quite pulled together the political implications about the Schiavo case in particular as incisively as McLaughlin does here and I'm thrilled somebody else has been thinking abut all this too.
At the time of the gut-wrenching heart-rending Schiavo matter, everybody was just so preoccupied with analyzing how the controversy might impact Republicans, their party 'brand' and their relationships with the voters especially.
But no one, not even I, stopped to really think then about the longterm implications for the Left & Dems for their equally substantial role in that battle.
While the Democrats were gleefully trying to paint the Republican party into their pro-life corner in order to achieve a partisan advantage for their own side, they forgot to realize they were simultaneously painting themselves into a pro-death corner through their over-the-top opposition to the Republicans & conservatives involved!
Turns out the view from that little corner they've stuck themselves into maybe isn't quite so wonderful now that they're required to ask Americans to trust them with assuming control over life & death issues pertaining to all citizens, not just some Florida housewife no one had ever heard of before.
I think the Schiavo case was a test case for the death merchants. It established a precedent for basic food and water to be considered extreme measures. This wording showed up on the Living Will my father’s hospital tried to get him to sign. He didn’t, and lived and died on his own terms.