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?
Yeah, that'll show 'em they can't take us fer granted. If we don't get our way on every demand, we hold our breath and start a new party.
Can we call it the Constitution Party ?
Can we, can we, can we ?
Then with 8 more years of Clinton/XXX we can say "We showed you how principled we were. We are important and great patriots too ..."
Not in your wildest dreams will Miss Hitlery run with pretty John Edwards!
Clinton/McCain 2008.
So, can I ask if it ends up (which it probably wouldn't, but if it did) a Hillary-Bush contest next election, who would you vote for?
And you won't be missed. Nobody likes to look at people without noses. :-)
LOL!
This shows how uninformed some people are.
The truth is people can state their wishes in a living will as to WHAT actions can or cannot be taken to keep them alive in situations like Terri's.
It is completely legal, and considered by many to be human to stop sustaining a person in such a horrible and hopeless state of existance.
He had the Constitutional authority to invade Iraq.
WHY DON'T ANY OF YOU PEOPLE KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT POLITICS ?
What a team they would make!There would be nothing left in Florida but the gators (and if I were gator,I would leave just to be on the safe side)
No, it's not; 70 percent of EVANGELICALS in the Fox News poll do NOT approve of Bush, the Congress, OR Jeb getting involved.
You can keep posting it over and over, but it's not true.
You'll never convince somebody who's on a mission....
I'm here to entertain.
Tip your waitresses.
Try the veal.
Now, Jorge, facts have no place in this discussion.
Would you like me to look up my posts? I was there.
I'm here to entertain.
Tip your waitresses.
Try the veal.
And entertaining you are! Makes me wish I had an unmarried niece!!!
There was no official Declaration of War from Congress as the Constitution requires. Dubya should act now on Terri.
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