Arrogance happened a year or so ago when politicians flew around the country trying to save the life of Terry Schiavo. Most people felt great ambivalence about whether or not to remove the feeding tube. We didn't need our political leaders pandering to family members and extreme religionists in a well publicized effort to save her life. This exercise went bad because these politicians looked arrogant. They looked arrogant because they acted like they knew what God wanted them to do. That doesn't set very well with voters, to be given the impression that their leaders think they speak for God. That may be a major problem for the mullahs of Baghdad.
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Most Americans didn't hold with the ultraconservative social agenda laid out by those Bible-thumpers. No matter their religious views, most voters recoiled from the public spectacle that leading GOP politicians made of Terri Schiavo's private tragedy.
Conservatives' tenuous bonds finally unravel
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Who should our political leaders pander to, in-laws? Strangers? Foreigners? Why NOT families? What is wrong with trying to save an innocent woman's life? That is lawmakers' constitutional duty! It's in the Declaration and the Constitution. To neglect that duty is impeachable (and that's in the Constitution, too.)
A real nincompoop, this one.