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Romney says government was wrong in Schiavo case
St. Petersburg Times ^ | March 11, 2007 | Adam C. Smith

Posted on 03/11/2007 7:40:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance

TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; elections; euthanasia; judicialtyranny; moralabsolutes; romney; romneyschiavo; schiavo; shiavo; terri; terrischiavo
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To: EternalVigilance
"I generally think that it's not a good idea for courts to legislate. Nor is it great idea for legislatures to adjudicate in a specific circumstance," Romney said in the taped interview that airs at 11 a.m. on Bay News 9 in the Tampa Bay area.

That doesn't sound like a judical supremacist to me.

281 posted on 03/11/2007 9:32:33 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu lÂ’aidera)
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To: TAdams8591

I know you didn't mean Schindler.... ;^)


282 posted on 03/11/2007 9:33:22 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot
If you prefer not to answer my question, that's fine. I try to inform my political choices by moral principles that are not negotiable.

I recognize other posters who, I believe operate the same way. I also recognize a number of posters who wish that I and those of the same persuasion would shut up and stop presenting our points of view. For some reason, they seem to see my position as threatening to something or another. I can't quite figure out what.

I am not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I try to be in line with what those brilliant men who founded this nation had in mind. And, I cannot imagine that they could have envisioned that their legacy would include state sanctioned denial of life of the unborn and invalids.

283 posted on 03/11/2007 9:33:26 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: TAdams8591

>> "Don't go looking for an activist judge to fit your
>> moral absolutes."
>
> That isn't even close to what actually happened

That seems to me to be precisely what happened. Then, when no such judge could be found, the protesters turned the Congress of the United States into even more of a circus than it usually is in order to change the law for one person, one time. Predictably, this did no good, but just made the Congress even more an object of scorn and ridicule than it normally is.


284 posted on 03/11/2007 9:33:35 PM PDT by voltaires_zit (Government is the problem, not the answer.)
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To: mac_truck
I generally think that it's not a good idea for courts to legislate.

I guess you missed that little word "generally" in his comment. Weasel words negate the rest of the sentence.

285 posted on 03/11/2007 9:34:27 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (With "Republicans" like these, who needs Democrats?)
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To: TAdams8591
"At the very least, it was a blunder for him to bring it up. Not smart at all."

Hmmm...an interview for a Tampa Bay, Florida local newscast....wonder if the interviewer asked the question?! I continue to be mystified by how people make assumptions about reality based on a thread post. It's possible, but highly unlikely Romney made a special point to 'bring this up', to volunteer an answer to an unasked question.

Reading the rest of the article, Romney says "I generally think that it's not a good idea for courts to legislate. Nor is it great idea for legislatures to adjudicate in a specific circumstance...". "I generally think that it's not a good idea for courts to legislate. Nor is it great idea for legislatures to adjudicate in a specific circumstance,"

286 posted on 03/11/2007 9:34:55 PM PDT by Swordfished
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To: don-o
I don't think you should shut up.

This happens to be an issue we obviously disagree upon.

I always enjoy your posts.

287 posted on 03/11/2007 9:36:04 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: KevinDavis
Congress had no business with the Terri Schiavo affair...

Was Terri Schiavo denied equal protection under law on the basis of her disability? Congress is given the power under Amendment XIV to pass legislation necessary to prevent such denial. While the particular form of legislation passed was not the best, it had far more justification under the Constitution than a lot of the other junk Congress passes.

288 posted on 03/11/2007 9:36:35 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: EternalVigilance
In Romney's wisdom, these things should be left in the hands of the courts.

"Why"?, I ask. Have the human beings who serve on the courts been gifted with some supernatural intelligence which makes them error-free?

"These things", in this case, refer to someone's right to life and Romney apparently is willing to put our lives in the courts' hands.

Yet, responding to Chris Matthews's question on the gay marriage issue in MA (Hardball Aug.05), Romney responds by saying that when a court overreaches it's bounds (my emphasis), it's pretty hard to overturn that.

If he accused the courts of "overreaching their bounds" in deciding that Terri Schiavo was better off dead, will someone tell me where I can read that. I want to be fair.

289 posted on 03/11/2007 9:36:50 PM PDT by IIntense
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To: Buck W.
No, it's not.

The Founding Fathers believed that governments existed to secure people's inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or at least they signed a document stating such.

290 posted on 03/11/2007 9:38:34 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: IIntense
Yet, responding to Chris Matthews's question on the gay marriage issue in MA (Hardball Aug.05), Romney responds by saying that when a court overreaches it's bounds (my emphasis), it's pretty hard to overturn that.

Telling.

If he accused the courts of "overreaching their bounds" in deciding that Terri Schiavo was better off dead, will someone tell me where I can read that. I want to be fair.

Good luck with that.

291 posted on 03/11/2007 9:39:13 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (With "Republicans" like these, who needs Democrats?)
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To: EternalVigilance

292 posted on 03/11/2007 9:39:45 PM PDT by rhinohunter (1 RINO down...4 to go!!!)
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To: muawiyah

lol, are you challenging me to a duel?


293 posted on 03/11/2007 9:39:49 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: All

Well, this I know - the %^#$@ Congress has unjustly deprived me of one hour of sleep this weekend. So, I must sleep now and try to avoid the worst of it tomorrow. I have enjoyed the discussions tonight


294 posted on 03/11/2007 9:39:53 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Romney is "spot-on" in this remark. Congress has absolutely no business interfering with the courts. They may try to pass some laws to change things but it is a terribe precedent to step into the middle of it.

Romney, dispite of you and the rest of his detractors around here, is gaining momentum. I think he is one of the best choices out there in the field that is running. As I have stated before, the more I see him, the more I like him. I think he will have the same effect on the rest of the country. He is largely unknown....unlike Rudy & McCain.

Should Fred Thomson run....hmmm?


295 posted on 03/11/2007 9:40:04 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: msnimje
For a guy courting the right-wing, this was a bad, bad move.

Since when does the "right wing" want the government interfering in family business?

I wonder if Scott Peterson tried that argument?

296 posted on 03/11/2007 9:40:42 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Give me a decent candidate, and that will change. :-)

Maybe Tom Delay will run. Is he still out on bail..?

297 posted on 03/11/2007 9:40:47 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu lÂ’aidera)
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To: muawiyah
You may be under the false impression that Free Republic is dedicated to anarchism.

I just find it ironic to see FReepers arguing for state control over family decisions, particularly in this case, in which the rule of law prevailed. When it comes to government, feed the cub and live with the tiger.

298 posted on 03/11/2007 9:41:05 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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To: DCPatriot

Man hug here - I am very sleepy. Night all :)


299 posted on 03/11/2007 9:42:16 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: mac_truck

LOL!!


300 posted on 03/11/2007 9:42:53 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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