Sorry. Jeb is tarred by his boasting that he would rescue her
followed by his meek retreat.
I was disappointed in Jeb too, but I don't recall hearing him "boasting that he would rescue her."
Here's what happened, according to several sources:
1. The governor's office quietly notified Morton Plant Hospital (the hospital where Terri was taken to have her feeding tube re-connected in 2003) to get ready to receive a patient. DCF agents were already on their way to the hospice to removed Terri.
2. Meanwhile, someone at Morton Plant Hospital, an ally of Death Inc., got wind of the plan and called either Felos or Greer.
3. Greer immediately put out an injunction against DCF's entering and removing Terri from the hospice, beating the DCF agents to the punch.
So while Jeb was holding that press conference, I believe he was fully expecting that Terri was already in the process of being rescued. (I didn't hear him make any claims that he was rescuing her, however.)
What Jeb is guilty of in this (and all pro-Terri parties are guilty of this too) is being caught flat-footed in the planning.
What happened was that we came up against a well-funded, thoroughly planned operation by Death Inc.
Schiavo, Felos, and Greer learned their lessons in 2003 and were dead-set, so to speak, against ever letting another rescue of Terri happen again.
Felos, Greer, Morton Plant Hospital, the "Hospice," the Pinellas Park sheriff (the latter three are in cahoots with the first two) have been working non-stop since 2003 --the last time Terri was rescued-- to make sure no one could get to Terri to rescue her again without bloodshed. They had it all planned to a 't' -- even putting snipers on the roof of that "Hospice."
All this time that we, the pro-Terri people, should have seen the inevitable approaching --the Florida Supreme Court's declaration of Terri's Law as unconstitutional, and the resumed effort by Schiavo, Felos, Greer et al to kill her-- all that time WE were distracted, dealing with other things, etc.
As one of Terri's lawyers, Barbara Weller said: We didn't take this so seriously because we thought someone would come riding in on a white horse to rescue Terri again.
Fatal mistake.