[stan_sipple]

Standard RINO line from a limousine liberal whose newspaper genuflects to the pro-choice pro-population control "oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffet

[bahblahbah]

Um, the paleocons and the libertarians really need to get out and show some political drive. If they don't they need to just stop their bitching.

[Not A Snowbird]

Wouldn't the more compassionate course be to release Terri from a vegetative existence in the belief you are sending her on to a better life after death?

Yes, but it isn't our decision to make. We could say the same thing about disabled infants, Alzheimer's patients, quadriplegics... the list goes on.

[Madeleine Ward]

His take is inaccurate.

Most Americans would say that they would not want to live that way, and they are projecting.

A lot of Americans say that it should be the husband's decision and not the parents.

A lot of Americans say that it's a matter for the state and not the federal gov't.

And most Americans are basing their opinions on incomplete information.

[SIDENET]

What garbage.

[franksolich]

Uh-huh.

It just kills me when people accuse the Omaha World-Herald of being "reactionary," when in fact while it once was conservative, that was a very long time ago.

And the former editor Harold Andersen was part of the problem; a limousine liberal masquerading as a "moderate" Republican.

I think money does something to people; once they get it, they tend to forget the ordinary people, they tend to forget what it was like, being poor (as was Harold Andersen in his younger days so long ago).

Such people develop this notion that now that they're affluent and comfortable, so is everybody else, nobody's been left behind, we're all doing fine.....and so let's spend some taxpayer money on this, on that, on this thing over there, on that other thing, because we all can afford it.

Yeah, right.

For all I know, Harold Andersen might be a nice guy, but it is apparent from this distance that he forgot his roots a long time ago.

[quack]

Wouldn't the more compassionate course be to release Terri from a vegetative existence in the belief you are sending her on to a better life after death?

Only one small problem with this.As Christians,we are to be Christ-like.I don't remember Jesus letting the blind stay blind,the lame to stay lame,those with palsy to keep it,those who were to be stoned left to die,or even Lazarus to stay dead. If Jesus were here today,I highly doubt he'd stand by and let this happen,no matter what the law says.He would go to her and heal her affliction.He wouldn't just throw up his hands and say,"Well,the courts have spoken".(If they want to really bring the Christian religion into this,they will reap what they sow.Because under no circumstances in the Christian bible does it say to just let someone die.)

[tkathy]

"Wouldn't the more compassionate course be to release Terri from a vegetative existence in the belief you are sending her on to a better life after death?"

Yes.

[Awestruck]

no kidding.. if the religious right owned the party, Terri wouldn't be in trouble.. nor would the country.

[redgolum]

I am beginning to see that the there is going to be a split in the GOP. On side wants to return to the country club days and become the Democrat lite party. The other is the moral conservatives who want to restrict infanticide and euthanasia.

I can see it here in FR. The religious right is treated at times like the minorities are in the DNC. Just vote straight ticket, and "we know what is best."

This whole Terri Schivio case maybe the breaking point. The religious people are getting fed up, and the power structure is just praying that she dies soon so they can go back to normal.

[Carry_Okie]

the (relatively silent) majority of Americans feel(s) that the most compassionate treatment for Terri Schiavo - as well as the proper legal course of action - is to let her vegetative existence end, as advocated by her legal guardian, her husband.

There's nothing quite like starting off with a false premise by which to make an opinion transparent.

[Veto!]

I don't like the Schaivo case "defining" the Republican Party, which the media is trying to do. Plenty of liberals didn't want her feeding tube pulled, but no one ever mentions them.

I also didn't like the movie The Passion defining the Republican Party, which the media attempted to do. There are plenty of Republicans who are not Christian, who didn't see the movie, or didn't like what they saw on screen. What the heck is political about that?

[G.Mason]

Seems about the right course to me.

I would rather the zelots and the government stay as far away from me and mine as is humanly possible.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Someone in the news media telling Republicans how they should think.

[jpsb]

"Wouldn't the more compassionate course be to release Terri from a vegetative existence in the belief you are sending her on to a better life after death?"

Thou shall not murder.

It think the Lord was pretty clear on this point.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

So an atheist argues that religious people should embrace death because they believe in heaven. Hmmm. So, on the medical research issue, if you create a life to end a life so you can save a life, how does that fit this ridiculous theory? Why not let the person to be saved by this controversial research die and save yourself time and trouble? If we are going to SAVE people by destroying other people, then are we favoring life or death? And if we "allow to die" (or hurry into death) certain disabled people on the grounds that they will have no more pain in heaven, then why again do we need the controversial medical research?

Regarding "legislative intrusion into the judicial process" um, excuse me but didn't the legislature CREATE the judiciary? Isn't it the authority of Congress to set the jurisdiction of the judiciary? Isn't it the legislative body that creates the laws the judiciary is to interpret and apply? Isn't the Constitution a creation of the Congress, and isn't it the right of the Congress and the people to amend that Constitution? The members of the judiciary get one vote on the matter, a vote equal to your vote and my vote -- that is, they vote for their own representatives just like the rest of us. They THINK they get more than that, but constitutionally they do not. If they ever figure that out, then we will have restored the judicial independence the framers had in mind.

[bmwcyle]

Let's let the County Club Republicans take over again. They were so good as the minority. /sarcasm

[advance_copy]

RINO's have a way to protest...

That way is to leave a party

Yes, good bye. Au revoir. So long. See you later aligator. Adios. Farewell. Have a nice trip. Later tater. Arrivederci. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Caleb1411]

[mewzilla]

...the (relatively silent) majority of Americans feel(s) that the most compassionate treatment for Terri Schiavo - as well as the proper legal course of action - is to let her vegetative existence end, as advocated by her legal guardian, her husband.

According to whom?

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

While I don't think I would consider myself a RINO, I do have some different opinions than many of my religious friends in the GOP concerning the Terri Schiavo issue.

However, what this writer utterly fails to undertstand is that while I may have a disagreement with them, I completely understand and respect why they have their point of view.

There is no reason for me to leave the party when we have a difference of opinion, especially when it's possible that my opinion may be wrong.

But I guess Democrats don't understand that way of thinking: they don't tolerate disagreement or discussion.