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Jeb Bush's political obituary
WND ^ | Mar 30 05 | Farah

Posted on 03/30/2005 4:07:26 PM PST by churchillbuff

I never had any desire to run for political office, but, if I did, it would be to make a difference.

If I didn't think I could make a difference, what would be the point?

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told us last week he just didn't have the power and authority to save one innocent woman forced by court order and armed guard to starve to death in his state.

I don't believe that's true. Not for a minute do I believe it. Jeb Bush blinked. And that weakness that he showed for the whole world should represent the end of his political career.

It's unfortunate, because I believe Jeb Bush knew, deep in his convictions, it was wrong to let Terri Schiavo be murdered by a judge's order.

He even dispatched a team of state law enforcement officers to seize her hours after Judge George Greer refused to listen to his pleadings in the courtroom.

But he backed down. When local cops informed the state officers that they would enforce the judge's order, the agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement stopped.

That's not leadership. That's capitulation.

Gov. Jeb Bush shouldn't have merely dispatched officers to the scene to negotiate with the local cops, he should have led them. He should have personally persuaded those local officers that he was the highest law enforcement official in the state and he was ordering them to stand down.

He should have been a field general, not an armchair general.

He should have walked up to that hospice with overwhelming force behind him.

He should have done so with the whole world watching.

Jeb Bush has been talked about as a potential presidential candidate. But who is going to seriously consider a commander in chief who backs down at the first sign of resistance?

Bush may have been trying to take the safe route in this crisis, but it represents, in my estimation, the end of his political ambitions.

Jeb Bush was tested, and he was found lacking.

He allowed a terribly immoral action to take place in his state and did nothing but huff and puff about it.

And it wasn't the first time.

Say what you will about former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. I think she was a fascist. I think she was a criminal. I think she was possibly stark, raving mad. But she backed up her misguided convictions by sending armed federal agents swooping in to pick up little Elian Gonzalez and take him back to Cuba. It was wrong, but she wasn't afraid.

Back then, Gov. Jeb Bush sat by and watched his authority breached by Washington.

This time, he sat by and watched his authority breached by a puny, little county bureaucrat, a local politician, Judge George Greer.

Does the Florida governor have any authority?

If not, we shouldn't take the position seriously as a stepping stone to higher office. If it does, why didn't he use it when it counted?

I feel sorry for Jeb Bush today.

I think he knew right from wrong in this case but didn't have the courage of his convictions. I think he listened to all the wrong advisers. I think he will carry regrets about Terri Schiavo to his grave.

He could have been a hero. He could have been a leader.

Instead, he appears weak. Instead, he appears to vacillate.

My wife told me: "If Jeb Bush had done the right thing for Terri, I would have given up six months of my life to campaign for him. I would have done anything to help him."

I'm sure many people feel like that. Let me ask you today: Is anyone excited about the possibility of a third Bush administration?


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To: John Lenin

Her blood on your hands, buddy. You can feel the evil radiating from you, by the way.


1,001 posted on 03/31/2005 3:00:23 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Dane
It has achieved its intended effect. Thank you. People defending a killing at a murder scene complaining about cussing have always struck me as very odd. You'll hear a lot more F words and G_ _ Ds when this woman's murder is complete.

Try to get out more.

1,002 posted on 03/31/2005 3:04:31 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
IT would be interesting to know who the actors were who urged him to act and who urged or perhaps ordered him not to. It's all VERY VERY strange.

Yes, and I'd like to know more about all the political corruption around Florida in and around the hospice industry. There are a lot of questionable goings on going on around this Terri matter.

1,003 posted on 03/31/2005 3:07:27 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
It has achieved its intended effect. Thank you. People defending a killing at a murder scene complaining about cussing have always struck me as very odd. You'll hear a lot more F words and G_ _ Ds when this woman's murder is complete.

Instead of filling your head with f bombs maybe take a breath and notice that I am not defending Terri's euthanasia(murder). I'm against it.

1,004 posted on 03/31/2005 3:08:09 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: beyond the sea

The connection with New Agey cults of the husband's lawyer is pretty bizarre. The whole thing is moral madness.


1,005 posted on 03/31/2005 3:09:33 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

Her blood is on Michale Shiavos hands, nice try.


1,006 posted on 03/31/2005 3:11:01 AM PST by John Lenin (Everything they do backfires, this is no exception)
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To: Dane
You are a middle-age woman, right? How you find time to hand out traffic citations for grown men using colorful language in their justified and righteous anger about this court-sanctioned murder is eye-opening.

Where I come from if all you got was a few F- and S- words for killing a Catholic woman, you'd be D_ _ n lucky.

1,007 posted on 03/31/2005 3:12:25 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
You are a middle-age woman, right? How you find time to hand out traffic citations for grown men using colorful language in their justified and righteous anger about this court-sanctioned murder is eye-opening.

Where I come from if all you got was a few F- and S- words for killing a Catholic woman, you'd be D_ _ n lucky

You need anger management classes, IMO. Anyway I'm male, and your language is more apt for the DUmpster.

1,008 posted on 03/31/2005 3:15:47 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: John Lenin
Her blood is on Michale Shiavos hands, nice try.

Most reasonable people who take the time to study the factual basis and legal machinations will find that he is not the only bad actor in this abomination of "justice."

1,009 posted on 03/31/2005 3:19:23 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Lori675
Suppose she says Jeb was weak and she would have sent in the state police to rescue Terri.
Who wins?


IMO, Janet, because she is right.

But, here is a "FR'instance" that should give everyone pause for thought. One, single, narrow-minded judge in FL has shown the world what it takes to shut down the state government of FL, the state legislature, the governor's office, the Congress of the US and the President of the US. It takes a single judge with a gavel willing to issue a court order.

Now, "FR'instance", suppose Kim Jong-Il or AQ get their hands on an ICBM or two and decide to shoot them our way after adding a nuclear device or even just a dirty bomb on top? And, suppose that, right after they fire these missiles, they make a satellite phone call to their envoy standing right outside of the Pinellas county courthouse and he gets a certain FL judge to issue a court order blocking the FL governor and/or state legislature, ANY state governor or legislature, the President or the Congress from taking ANY retaliatory action?

The brothers Bush and Judger Greer have combined to show the world what it would take to keep us from doing ANYTHING to protect ourselves. Now, suppose that Saddam Hussein had known that just before the start of the Iraq War?
1,010 posted on 03/31/2005 3:21:22 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: sinkspur; JonDavid
Michael Savage is a manic depressive. IOW, he's nuttier than an outhouse rat.

Yeh, right. Just like that "crazy fox". ;-)

1,011 posted on 03/31/2005 3:24:27 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea

Michael Savage has been great on this


1,012 posted on 03/31/2005 3:25:34 AM PST by dennisw ("What is Man that thou art mindful of him")
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To: dennisw
Michael Savage has been great on this

Yeah real great when he uses DUmmie tin foil talking points that Karl Rove is to blame.

Rove must be doing something right, he has the kooky left and right going bonkers.

1,013 posted on 03/31/2005 3:35:49 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Cboldt

He was the only one with the power to say no. That is the reality.


1,014 posted on 03/31/2005 3:37:08 AM PST by John Lenin (Everything they do backfires, this is no exception)
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To: nopardons; KoRn; HitmanNY; USMC_1; grannie9
Michael Savage is an idiot,who now also appears to be a full body suited tinfoiler as well.

Quite civilized of you. (sarcasm off) ;-)

Hey, I hear they're going to modify that encumbering monitoring ankle bracelet on your buddy, Martha. Upset about that too?

Michael Savage is great, a great entertainer. The man has been down the road. I love his zest and his mad act.

Most of what you may dislike about him is most likely all 'schtick'. He's a smart guy and very, very funny. His radio ads for his show make me laugh out loud. :-)

1,015 posted on 03/31/2005 3:40:53 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: Dane

Do you support Terri Schiavo on day 13 as she fights to live without water and food. Could you survive this long?

Terri has proven M Schiavo to be a damned to hell liar. She wants to live "this way". Terri has proven this on day 13.


1,016 posted on 03/31/2005 3:42:17 AM PST by dennisw ("What is Man that thou art mindful of him")
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To: dennisw

He is also one funny guy. I love it when he starts talking about his dog and plain old mundane little things. He breaks me up in laughter when he goes into a rant. He's great.


1,017 posted on 03/31/2005 3:44:49 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: John Lenin
He [Michael Schiavo] was the only one with the power to say no. That is the reality.

Negative, and those who study the case can see there is more than one bad character in this sorrid affair.

The law found that TERRI's wish was to die, in part but not solely based on Michael's testimony. Without the judicial order to withdraw the feeding tube and withhold attempts to feed and water by mouth, Terri would be in much better health today.

If the law found wrongly, then it too is partly to blame for a miscarriage of justice.

1,018 posted on 03/31/2005 3:49:18 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: dennisw
Do you support Terri Schiavo on day 13 as she fights to live without water and food. Could you survive this long?

Terri has proven M Schiavo to be a damned to hell liar. She wants to live "this way". Terri has proven this on day 13

I have always been on Terri's and the Schindler's side. This would have never happened if michael schiavo wasn't such a controlling posterior oriface, add in his creepy in love with death lawyer and it's disgusting what is happeneing to Terri and the Schindler's.

But I ain't going to blame Jeb Bush for what michael schiavo is doing to Terri.

1,019 posted on 03/31/2005 3:50:20 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane

There is plenty of blame to go around and some folks carry a lot more responsibility than others to intervene because they have the office and have been elected to protect the people of Fl. That is where Jeb comes into play.....he engaged the enemy but as the battle ensued, he became a coward and didn't make the right (albeit tough) decision. He's the modern day Pontius Pilate in this scenario.

I believe his political career is over, as it should be.

I'm disgusted with a bunch (not all) of the quote Republicans. I'm going to look long and hard at what they did or didn't do in this situation and my vote will speak my displeasure. Kick the lot of them out and start with a fresh batch !!! Time for a little shakeup.


1,020 posted on 03/31/2005 4:01:26 AM PST by PsyOps
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