GOP Crack-Up? Pardon My Guffaw (Mark Steyn: Republicans "Did the Right Thing" re: Schiavo)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 4/03/05 | Mark Steyn

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Clearwater Bar Association 'recognized 'Judge George Greer for his decision to
execute Terri Schindler. They presented the John U. Bird award to the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit judge on May 15, 2004.
This prestigious award, which is the Clearwater bar's highest honor for a judge,
was granted to Judge Greer for the way he has handled himself in the Nazi fashion
(adopted by the Scientologists) of executing by dehydration and starvation while
the victim screams, as in the Terri Schiavo case!


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[Miss Marple]

I absolutely love Mark Steyn. Thanks for posting this!

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"Thanks to Kerry in his Hanoi Jane period,
Vietnam was a disaster for America
that gave the establishment a wholly irrational fear
of almost every ramshackle Third World basket case on the planet."
Mark Steyn

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"(John Kerry's) default position is the conventional wisdom of the Massachusetts Left:
on foreign policy, foreigners know best;
on trade, the labour unions know best;
on government, bureaucrats know best;
on defence, graying ponytailed nuclear-freeze reflex anti-militarists know best;
on the wine list, he knows best."
Mark Steyn

[jla]

The Republicans did the right thing here, and they won't be punished for it by the electors.

Absolutely true.
Now maybe the so-called conservatives who have been intent to malign Tom DeLay will finally stop.

[iopscusa]

I love the way Mark Steyners the stoopid Left and their buds the Lefty-Repubs...he slices and dices as well as anyone.

[Bahbah]

Princeton Lyman? Monteagle Stearns? Spurgeon Keeny Jr.?

I initially thought Steyn was making up these names. Apparently not. Bwahahahaha.

[lainde]

bttt

[beyond the sea]

ping

Thought you and that vaunted 'WPPFF' might want to see this.

;-)

[SkyPilot]

Steyn is exactly correct, and his wit and satire cut to the heart of the matter again.

Look at this revolting cartoon by Rex Babin that appeared in the Sacramento Bee.

What the Democrats and hard core liberals really feared was that this very public moral debate would expose their own lack of morals. They also feared that any Judeo-Christian aspect of this case regarding God's value of all life would spill out into the next court appointment battle.

The courts obliged in the Schiavo by reinforcing the Conservative position--that liberal judges are out of control and must be stopped.

[Tom Bombadil]

59 panjandrums

Worse than a loose cannon.

A wonderful mental picture of a very defective weapons system.

[mewzilla]

The Republicans did the right thing here, and they won't be punished for it by the electors.

And not just electors from their own party, either. Mark my words, there will be even more Dems voting Republican the next time around. I know fewer and fewer Dems who want anything to do with the Deathocrats.

[goldstategop]

Uncle Ted and his Boys are the ones cracking up. The legacy media's tune that voters will punish the GOP for being pro-life sounds a lot like whistling past the graveyard. C'mon now; if abortion was such a winning issue in this country, the Democrats wouldn't be talking about recruiting pro-life candidates. Its the party of choice that's made a political brouhaha out of the Terri Schiavo case. So who's really being indecent? Uncle Ted rode to his career on the back of a dead woman and his party now wants to imitate his example. Whatta way to go!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Once-Ler]

The Republicans did the right thing here

Yes we did. We faught for justice but we did not win. That should be worth some distinction for those who really care and have a brain

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panjandrum
n : an important or influential (and often overbearing) person [syn: very important person, VIP, high-up, dignitary, high muckamuck]

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Then there's the 59 striped-pants colossi of the Nixon-Ford-Reagan State Department who've sent a letter to the Senate calling on them to reject John Bolton's nomination as U.N. ambassador.

Condi Rice should appoint one of these clowns as head of the visa section at our new consulate in Sagastyr, in the Lena River Delta country of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.

He could serve as an example for the others. Then again, Siberia is a vast land and her people have long been without consular representation from the US State Department. If a citizen of Siberia wants to take a winter vacation in, say Florida, he has to travel thousands of miles just to apply for a tourist visa.

Maybe we need a string of consulates across northern Siberia. This could be a win-win, Siberians get easier access to warm American tourist destinations and the US gets a means of rewarding State Department officials with postings worthy of their talents and the degree of loyalty they have demonstrated to the United States.

[jla]

that vaunted 'WPPFF'

Aren't those the folks always roaring about how Republicans 'eat their own', yet they have no qualms in vilifying Tom DeLay and other Republicans who spoke up for Terri Schiavo?

[GeekDejure]

That cartoon would be equally correct if it showed "Lucifer's Left" feeding the "Democrats" !!! ;-))

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that vaunted 'WPPFF'

Aren't those the folks always roaring about how Republicans 'eat their own', yet they have no qualms in vilifying Tom DeLay and other Republicans who spoke up for Terri Schiavo?

Yes, they are. The level of viciousness got so high at times, I had to look up at my URL address bar to make sure I wasn't on the Democrat Underground site. Intolerance to other's opinions,......a cold, scientific intelligensia elitism.......WE know better than you do.....

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