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 imagine most people are completely oblivious to the fact that people can be legally killed. I know I was, before Terri's case hit the news. California has laws similar to Florida's. There are so many issues involved in Terri's case, it takes a while to sort them out.
In reality, the law is being carried out, but the question is in regards to Terri's qualifying for the killing under Florida law. There is also MS killing the Schindler's daughter, in spite of their wishes. It is a very ugly situation.
I have been trying to understand whether most people who are against Terri's killing are upset because the state is allowing her to be killed at all, or because they feel she doesn't qualify to be killed under the law.
For me, I'm offended that the law allows for people to be starved/dehydrated to death.
Japan..with its decades of foriegn investment and skill margin is currently doing circles..or stalled in neutral as economies go.
Flordia was just hammered relentlessly by last seasons storms.
weather has hurt agriculture too at times.
then fires in past years sweeping large tracts of the state.
There's more...like the mysterious virus outbreaks on cruise ships.
Jeb has had alot on his plate....for years
Farah is an idiot to margin Jeb as some chair sitter who thrown away his legacy.
As most old time FREEPERS know, Farah HATES the Bush family and this is just yet another one of his anti-Bush rants. Facts? Farah doesn't care one whit about actual facts; sadly.
I was going to see when you joined and now I see you are already gone. I don't know if this post outed you as a DUer but it should have. Only liberals read Newsweak and Kerry was outed long before the election as scum by the swiftboat vets.
Farah's right, as usual.
Terri has shown her desire to live despite her "condition". She's still alive after day 13 and becoming an embarrassment to our clueless, useless eater politicians.
What use is Jeb Bush on this?
Don't blame Jeb, blame the people who are being haunted by Terris last words as they follow the letter of the law over their own conscience and say she is just a vegatable.
All good and well but I blame Jeb too. And I live here and voted for him.
Question for everyone.
If Janet Reno runs against Jeb for governor in the next Election.
Suppose she says Jeb was weak and she would have sent in the state police to rescue Terri.
Who wins?
Yes, that's the reason, and Greer also enforced it by instructing the police that they were not to admit anyone without his presence or his permission.
Jeb can't run again, IIRC, he's term limited.
And I laugh at the notion that Reno would even lift a finger for Terri.
If she was Governor in 03 when Terri's law was signed by Jeb, it would have been vetoed, IMO.
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. Macabre. Eerie. Creepy. Apocalyptic.
Worthles hypocrites. They used the pro-life movement to get elected like cheap whores. The Kennedys might as well be in the White House and Florida's governor's mansion.
Janet Reno couldn't win dog of the month in Florida.
More drivel from one issue voters.
Worthles hypocrites. They used the pro-life movement to get elected like cheap whores. The Kennedys might as well be in the White House and Florida's governor's mansion
With that language and rhetoric, you sound more pro-DUmmie than pro-life.
In the final analysis your words dont mean diddly.
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