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.
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Great posts. Thanks.
If Terri had been under the care of an honest guardianship judge, the conflicts between the interests of the husband-in-name-only guardian and his ward would have been sufficiently obvious and apparent to disqualify Mr. Schiavo's continued guardianship. An honest guardian would have sought, and received, a divorce on Terri's behalf (is any divorce court judge going to deny a divorce to a woman who's husband has sired two children by another women and pledged to marry her?)
On this issue alone, he ain't gonna get my vote.
Rich, helpless and handicapped - a tragic combination for our Terri.
Rest in peace, girl. We'll never forget you.
Amen.
Because the "Republican" in the legislature who made the law refused to let anyone try to "roll back his legacy".
"I am still extremely sad and angry over Terri Schiavo's murder. >:-(
Same here.
Think of our Terri often, and when I do I start to cry.
Indeed, it was government-sanctioned murder. Shame on them all!
Good nite!
Some have. Others, like myself, haven't.
The reason he has such contempt for the current field of candidates is because they've earned it.
"They appeared to be the very busybodies that they have long accused liberals of being.
Just like Terri's husband-in-name-only, the politicos were dying to see the girl dead and kept stalling and stalling. You see, the dear girl was an inconvenience to them all. Cowards!
They were not so defined when Terri supposedly stated her "wish" not to be kept alive by extraordinary means. When Michael Schiavo, George Felos, was unable to have Terri dehydrated because the statutes didn't allow it, he worked to have the law changed to facilitate the completion of Terri's murder.
I know I never will. Ever.
> Because the "Republican" in the legislature who made the
> law refused to let anyone try to "roll back his legacy".
Thanks for clearing that up.
Too many competing interests, and further confirmation that hard cases make for bad law.
The best that can come from it all is just that we all have our wishes clearly written out and recorded.
Their observance of the letter was so strict that it blinded them to the very purpose of the law. The same is true of those who hated (i.e. wanted killed, since that is the highest expression of hatred) Terri Schindler.
Actually, Michael's actions in that regard were illegal, though the laws would probably be unenforceable since they've been widely ignored for years (though I don't think ever in a case so outrageous as this).
On the other hand, the facts that a person wants to marry a woman not his wife as soon as his wife is dead, and that the person is trying to have his wife killed, would suggest a conflict of interest so obvious and blatant as to disqualify a person from guardianship.
John Edwards for President in '08! We know he'll defeat Hillary, Obama and McCain.
Um, no.
So long, Mitt, we hardly knew ye.
Have you read the testimony the court used in determing Terri's "wishes". Even if the Schiavos testified truthfully about things Terri actually said, there is no way any reasonable person could infer that Terri made her statements with the knowledge and intention that those statements could result in her being fatally dehydrated.
What good would that have done. Ms. Schiavo wasn't accused of any crime.
Alrighty then. Howabout "put to death in a manner that makes burning at the stake seem downright pleasant by comparison"?
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