A Republican President protecting a citizen, meanwhile, would face months of outrage in the press and calls for impeachment. Imagine, for example, if Bush had killed 40 people in Waco, or snatched Elian so he could be sent to a dictatorship.
And I wonder if the Repubs or Convervatives who oppose Bush doing something "radical" to save Terri would be more outraged at that or at campaign finance reform.
One lesson to be learned here is, be careful of going into a hospital alive, you may come out dead through no fault of your own. In the hospital you become a ward of the state.
Sad to say, you are correct. President Dwight Eisenhower had no problem sending federal troops to Little Rock to guarantee the safety of black students going to school, but here we are 48 years later and our federal government is reduced to making a bunch of fancy speeches, engaging in all sorts of impressive public displays of 'concern' about a helpless woman being murdered, and instead of troops, Washington sends a minor flurry of paper in the form of subpoenas, thinking that will do the job. Eisenhower would not have had to think twice to send in troops with orders to rescue Terri Schiavo, move her to the nearest military medical facility, and instruct the commander of that facility that Terri Schiavo was a ward of the United States Government until the Commander In Chief said otherwise, and she was to be kept safe, given all consideration and rehabilitation possible, and her would-be murderers would be banned from setting foot on government property.