[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

We are devolving into a culture of death, I'm not going to deny that. The evidence is all around us. And I have no delusions that this is a pro-life country. We worship convenience and we worship ourselves. That's not changing anytime soon.

But you're stretching it if you really believe Terri Schiavo played any significant role in the 2006 elections. Short attention span nation couldn't even remember why we were in Iraq, let alone the name of that unpleasant looking vegetable girl in Florida who needed to be starved to death two years ago.

[Oct1967]

it was the begining of a series of political missteps for the GOP