While the nation may not be on the leftist trajectory some have credited with swaying those elections, it is clearly fed up with right-wing ideologues. Most of the country rejects the right’s absolutist positions on abortion, sexual-abstinence education, stem-cell research, and gun control — much as they rejected the Republican Congress’s attempt to hijack Terri Schiavo’s death for ideology, and President Bush’s reckless perpetuation and escalation of the disastrous Iraq War.
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Where do they come up with this crap?! How does trying to keep somebody from being murdered translate into "hijacking" their death? The only reason that any significant portion of the public supported Terri's murder was because they had been LIED TO BY A MURDERING HUSBAND, HIS BLOODTHIRSTY LAWYER AND A COMPLICIT MEDIA.
They are so hooked on kissing the pharaoh's toes, it never occurs to them that doing the right thing is more important than winning elections. Neither does it cross their mind that Pharaoh is that little guy behind the curtain manning the smoke machine and loudspeakers.
Let conservatives never forget that politics rarely solves anything, and then only by undoing some obnoxious socialist intrusion. We owe nothing to commissars, bureaucrats and politicians. It is free people in a free market who get things done.