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?
I remember the last time Terri was deprived of food and water for six days and they had tried to do it once before that. It is horrific and heinous! I never dreamed it could happen again but it did only this time unless a miracle takes place they are going to finish the court-ordered murder of an innocent disabled woman.
Michael Schiavo has Terri surrounded by ghouls and monsters. They found a ghoulish judge who is a madman. They apparently enjoy seeing Terri suffer and her parents in agony.
If you think this is common place, you're outta your everlovin' mind. That's why some of us are so upset about this case. Sheeeesh.
Dr. Baden on Fox right now.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there -- and agree with Dr. James Kennedy and Ann Coulter. They see he has a duty, he has the authority - and he has a moral obligation.
Awwwww. Poor widdle victim. Isn't it time for you to start a new thread with your own comments in the title?
Sitting down?
Hillary.
Why?
I want to be able to point to my opponent and say, there is my opponent.
I don't have a problem with dealing with the wolves.
I have a lot of problems with people who allow the wolves in sheep's clothing to get to the sheep.
NOW.
Your premise is flawed.
I will not be voting for evil over not so evil.
They are both evil.
It is a matter of identifying the evil.
Did you forget, the country did make great gains to the correct (right) side with Clinton in office?
I don't trust Hillary. She's evil. But I think if push came to shove, she give up her flesh and blood to get what she wants.
I dispise Jeb. Because he's give up YOUR daughter to get what he wants. But will most defintely SAVE his daughter.
And again, it makes him the more DANGEROUS of the two.
LOL, getting to be a small world for yall. Enemies on the right, enemies on the left stuck in the middle with no fire power.
It's a common refrain here, one that has probably been suggested at least 10,000 times in the last month alone.
The fact is that we're a nation of laws, courts, and executive powers.
Florida law says that shacking up with a woman doesn't end a marriage, create a new one, or do anything.
So your problem is with the law.
But when you blame the judges for not enforcing your moral opinion of what the law should be, but what it is, then you're mad.
Everyone on this forum wants to blame the judges. They too are dealt the hands they get.
And blaming ALL the wrong people. Emotion over intellect.
Every voter ought to "know" how he expects his elected officials to behave. That's pretty elementary in a republic such as this.
I'm not the one trashing everybody who disagrees with me.
Ain't that the truth!
"Those cops are on government payroll"
You can't possibly be that ignorant. The governor does not have the power to withhold COUNTY OR CITY FUNDS WHICH PAY FOR LOCAL POLICE.
Ah, so you're a Patsy! That just about explains everything. Your kind are just so taki. Taki, Taki, Taki...
Judgenfuhrer Greer: "We have ignored:.
18 USC Section 1505
Title 2 of the US code
Florida Statute 765.309 which prevents mercy killing and assisted suicide.
Florida Statute 744.3215 which requires that incapacitated people cannot be deprived of food and water.
Florida Statute 765.404, which says that clear and convincing evidence of the ward's intent for medical treatment must be established.
also Constitutionally protected civil rights.
What are you gonna do about, Jeb. Pound sand."
And Florida is a state where the governer doesn't act on them. See post# 207 and deny it.
This place is turning into "DU Lite".
Autopsy will show abuse. But so will MRIs, which Cranford said he would not allow. Why was she denied one for so long is what I don't get.
You are correct.
Civics is not taught anymore.
Big deal I've got enough beer and cheetos to last this thread.
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